Maledetti is the fifth 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 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 ("Evaporazione"), causing people forgetting how to govern the world. Some new hypothesis are formulated: power to old people ("Gerontocrazia"), power to women ("SCUM", which uses as lyrics a reading of a writing by Valerie Solanas

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of an all-female society.-Early life:Solanas was born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis...

, the chief of the feminist party SCUM, which stands for "Society for Cutting Up Men"), and power to children ("Giro, giro, tondo" and "Caos (parte seconda)"). "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore" is a fragment of Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

's third Brandenburg concerto

Brandenburg concertos

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.
During the recording sessions of the album, Capiozzo and Tavolazzi left the band temporarily (noticeably they are absent on "Diforisma Urbano", "Giro, giro, tondo" and "Caos (parte seconda)") only to come back some months later. During these months in which they weren't in the band, the live album Event '76

Event '76

Event '76 is the seventh album of the jazz fusion band Area, and the second live album. It was recorded in Milan's Università Statale in 1976, though released in 1979...

was recorded at Milan's Università Statale. This was also the last studio album featuring Tofani on guitar.
Most of CD re-releases contain two bonus tracks: an interview with Stratos, Tofani and Fariselli after the "Event '76" concert and the "Are(A)zione

Are(A)zione

Arezione! is the fourth album of the Jazz fusion band Area, 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....

" version of "L'internazionale".
From this album's tour, two posthumous concerts from 1977 were released: "Concerto Teatro Uomo" in 1996 and "Live in Torino 1977" in 2005.

Side one

1. "Evaporazione" – 1:45
2. "Diforisma Urbano" – 6:18
3. "Gerontocrazia" – 7:30
4. "SCUM" – 6:30

Side two

1. "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore" – 2:20
2. "Giro, giro, tondo" – 5:55
3. "Caos (parte seconda)" – 9:00

Personnel

• Giulio Capiozzo - Drums, Percussion (on "Gerontocrazia" and "SCUM")
• 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 (on "Gerontocrazia" and "SCUM")
• Giampaolo Tofani - Guitar, Synthesizer, Flute

Guest musicians

• Eugenio Colombo - kazumba (on "Evaporazione")
• Hugh Bullen - bass (on "Diforisma Urbano" and "Giro, giro tondo")
• Walter Calloni - drums (on "Diforisma Urbano" and "Giro, giro tondo")
• Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
  
  - soprano sax (on "Diforisma Urbano" and "Caos (parte seconda)")
• Anton Arze & Jose Arze - txalaparta (on "Gerontocrazia")
• Paul Litton - percussion (on "Caos (parte seconda)")
• Paolo Salvi - cello (on "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore")
• Giorgio Garulli - contrabass (on "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore")
• Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli - violin (on "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore")
• Armando Burattin - viola (on "Il Massacro di Brandeburgo numero tre in Sol Maggiore")