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Tony Esposito – Il Grande Esploratore
Tony Esposito
Il Grande Esploratore
Label: Bubble
Catalog Number: BLULP 1818
Released: 1984
Neapolitan Power legend Tony Esposito started his career as a session musician playing percussion on classic albums by Italian icons like Alan Sorrenti, Francesco de Gregori, Lucio Dalla, and Edoardo Bennato. While his early albums, like 1974’s cult classic Rosso Napoletano, touched on more of a balearic jazz-funk and world ambient sort of sound, 1984’s Il Grande Esploratore is a mainstream-leaning dance pop affair with electronic drums and synthesizers meeting Esposito’s masterful percussion and rhythmic sense. B1 “Lagos” is an amazing afrobeat inspired track with laid back vocal melodies. B2 “Music” is our pick of the bunch and hits on a sort of proto-techno, Italo disco, vocoder groove with an infectious synthesizer melody and sophisticated drum & synth sequencing that reminds us a bit of Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Recommended – A1 Kalimba De Luna, B1 Lagos, B2 Music
Tags: Balearic / Italo Disco / Jazz
Tracklist:
A1 Kalimba De Luna
A2 Dateme!
A3 Simba De Ammon
A4 Terra Di Fuoco
B1 Lagos
B2 Music
B3 Monica
B4 Caucciù
B5 Kalimba De Sol
Credits:
Arranged By – Mauro Malavasi, Remo Licastro, Tony Esposito
Bass – Davide Romani
Engineer – Maurizio Maggi
Executive-Producer [Executive Organisation] – Dario Tiribello
Flugelhorn, Instruments [Genis] – Mauro Malavasi
Flute, Vocals – Claudio Pizzale
Guitar – Paolo Ganolio*
Keyboards, Flute, Saxophone [Sax] – Rudy Trevisi
Keyboards, Vocals – Remo Licastro
Mastered By – Piero*
Mixed By – Eliano Negri, Mauro Malavasi
Percussion [Tamborder], Percussion, Drums, Drum Machine, Keyboards, Vocals – Tony Esposito
Producer – Mauro Malavasi, Willy David
Programmed By [Fairlight Programmer] – Serse May
Vocals – Dawn Mitchell, Gianluigi Di Franco
