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Arezione! is the fourth album of the Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 band Area
Area (band)
Area - International POPular Group, most commonly known as Area or AreA, is an Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic, experimental groupb) “It was the mid-1970s and live events roused enthusiasm as never before; they fulfilled the need to be together and the illusion of continuing as a...

, and it was the first live album. It was recorded during their 1975 tour in Milano, Napoli, Rimini and Reggio Emilia was released later the same year.
While side One of the album concentrates on live versions of studio classics, side two contains the title-track, a lengthy instrumental, which contains also the drum pattern of the song "Giro, Giro, Tondo" which appeared in the next studio album Maledetti (Maudits)
Maledetti (Maudits)
Maledetti is the fifth album of the Jazz fusion band Area and was released in 1976. It can be considered a concept album: during the XX° century, an imaginary bank in which history is stored, loses data from the XV° century , causing people forgetting how to govern the world...

, and a live version of "L'internazionale", the Socialist anthem, which was released in a studio version as a single in 1974.
The track timings listed on the back cover are slightly incorrect, here is reported the actual running time for every track.

Track listing

All tracks by Patrizio Fariselli, Ares Tavolazzi & Giampaolo Tofani

Side one

  1. "Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (nero)" – 5:41
  2. "La Mela di Odessa" – 11:05
  3. "Cometa Rossa" – 6:00

Personnel

  • Giulio Capiozzo - drums, percussion
  • Patrizio Fariselli - electric piano, piano, clarinet, synthesizer
  • Demetrio Stratos
    Demetrio Stratos
    Efstratios Demetriou better known as Demetrio Stratos was an Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion band Area – International POPular Group.Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, of Greek...

    - vocals, organ, clavicembalo, steel drums, percussion
  • Ares Tavolazzi - bass, trombone
  • Giampaolo Tofani - guitar, synthesizer, flute
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