Uomo di pezza is an album by the Italian progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Le Orme

Le Orme

Le Orme is an Italian progressive rock band formed in 1966 in Marghera, a frazione of Venice. The band was one of the major groups of the Italian progressive rock scene in the 1970s...

. It was released in 1972 and was one of their best selling works, which won an Italian award disco d'oro.

The title Uomo di pezza means "Rag doll

Rag doll

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 man" in English. The doll character comes from the lyrics of the song "Gioco di bimba".

Compared to the previous album, it shows many more classical elements: the opening of the album, for example, is a chaconne

Chaconne

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 of Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

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, played on piano by Gian Piero Reverberi

Gian Piero Reverberi

Gian Piero Reverberi is an Italian pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and entrepreneur.After obtaining Diplomas in piano and composition from the Paganini Conservatory in Genoa, Reverberi worked in a wide range of media, including TV themes, spaghetti Western soundtracks to pop and rock...

. Furthermore, Tony Pagliuca plays a synthesizer for the first time.

The lyrics of Uomo di pezza describe a helpless masculine attitude, juxtaposed to an unknown, inscrutable feminine universe.

Track listing

• All music and lyrics by Aldo Tagliapetra and Antonio Pagliuca.

Side 1

1. "'Una dolcezza nuova" - 5:31
2. "Gioco di bimba" - 2:56
3. "La porta chiusa" - 7:32

Side 2

4. "Breve immagine" - 2:45
5. "Figure di cartone" - 3:51
6. "Aspettando l’alba" - 4:45
7. "Alienazione" - 4:44

Personnel

• Toni Pagliuca – keyboards
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• Aldo Tagliapietra – voice
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  , bass
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  , guitar
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• Michi Dei Rossi – drums
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  , percussion
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Guest

• Gian Piero Reverberi – piano on track 1