Jumping a bit ahead in the Macchi discography, this is Preludi E Non. The A side consists of six piano preludes, and the B side doesn't
This is an excellent record where the Macchi experimental darkness doesn't appear until the B side.
This was released on the Cometa CEM label in 1981. They recently found some dead stock, and it is worth considering picking one up while some are still available.
Preludio No.1 and Due Voci are particularly beautiful.
Cometa's writeup:
Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) has long existed in the shadow of his friend and famous collaborator Ennio Morricone. As Morricone melded pop idioms and western scores, Macchi too melded classicism, the avant garde and early electronic music. Aside from his frequent collaborations with Morricone. Macchi was a busy film (LSD Inferno, Bandidos, The Assassination Of Trotsky) and TV (E.S.P, many commercials with Mario Bava) composer in late 1960s and 1970s Italy and France. Macchi also cut a number of highly desirable library LPs for the Gemelli, Sermi and other Italian labels in the 1970s.In the 70's, RAI, sent disturbing drama to the point of paranoia, queer documentaries on the deep sea, and indigestible movies so-called "educational". All stuff that obviously served the music. Or sonorizations, as they were called. These sonorizations were left to shady characters on the border between avant-garde classical, electronics, space age, and healthy as italianissmo sbraco pop. Some names you know them: Ennio Morricone, for example. Or the mythological Piero Umiliani, too. But the biggest of all was Egisto Macchi
As with all of Macchi's work,"Preludi e non" is an masterpiece of dark avant- garde music.
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