Alberico Vitalini - Sound Expression + Espressioni Elettroniche (2022)

September 2022; returning to the Italian "Library" sector (long a constant, endless, infinite source of inspiration for the C.P. "Cabal") here with this collection of both of Composer Alberico Vitalini's two Electronically-tinged offerings, issued in 1969 & 1971 respectively, on the Hit (where "Sound Expression (Espressioni Sonore)" appeared alongside William Assandri's two loosely accordion-themed Electronic Libraries "Il Mare" & "Brani Panoramici" - hopefully more on Assandri shortly) & Record TV Discografica (ditto, the Alessandro "Dereales" Derevitzky -heavy "Elaborazioni Percussioni Effetti" collection) imprints.

Sharing a similar timbral affinity with Giuliano Sorgini's masterful "Elettroformule" library ([CP 109 CD]) a set of fairly ghosted prepared piano & organ figures slowly give way to classic Studio di Fonologia Musicale della Rai di Milano-era tape-studio excesses, under which all semblances of instrumental/acoustic source are rendered inobservable. It's a masterclass in mood-alteration via (Analogue) Electronic means, and it's somewhat inforgiveable that this music was all but buried in the Production world until now.

The gorgeous cover/spec of both titles is preserved wonderfully here across six panels, with the essentially "Blank" rear of the latter augmented with the only known photo of 60s-era Vitalini subliminally applied across the former's credo:

Nel luglio 1969 in occasione del vaggio
degli astronauti sulla Luna, l'autore delle presenti
musiche, immaginò tale viaggio in forma sonora inconsueta,
realizzando, con l'attenta collaborazione del tecnico del suono Ulde-
rico Merluzzi. la prima 《 espressione sonora 》 che intitolò
《 VIA LATTEA 》. I sonsensi ottenuti dopo le tra-
smissioni, lo indussero a creare altre
espressioni, constituendo cosi la realizzazione
di questo disco che oltre a suscitare interesse per
l'originale nuovo sistema sonoro, si presta egregiamente al
commento musicale invero insusitato e modernissimo, di sequenze ra-
diofoniche, cinematografiche e televisive.

In July 1969 on the occasion of the astronauts'
moon landing, the author of this composition
imagined such a trip in an unusual sound
expression, and realised, with the eccellent
collaboration of sound engineer Ulderico Mer-
luzzi, the first "sound", entitled "The Milky Way".
The enthusiasm aroused after this broadcast induced me to
create other expressions, resulting in this
recording. Besides sustaining the
interest in the first composition, it also lends
itself remarkably well to a new type of musi-
cal comment for radio, cinema and television.