''Area '70'' is the second compilation of the

jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...

band

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and was released in 1980. Unlike the other compilation "

Anto/Logicamente ''Anto/Logicamente'' is the first compilation of the Jazz fusion band Area and was released in 1977. As the title suggests, the track selection focuses more on the tracks that were "hidden, ignored by the critics and many others", as told on the b ...

", this one was never reprinted on CD. It's noticeable for featuring the studio version of "L'Internazionale" which was only released as a single (and never on CD).

Track listing

Side one

# "Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (nero)" (1973) – 4:27 # "Cometa rossa" (1974) – 4:00 # "Gioia e Rivoluzione" (1975) – 4:40 # "L'elefante Bianco" (1975) – 4:33 # "L'Internazionale" (1974) – 3:04

Side two

# "La Mela di Odessa (1920)" (1975) – 6:27 # "Gerontocrazia" (1976) – 7:30 # "SCUM" (1976) – 6:30

Personnel

*Giulio Capiozzo - drums, percussion *Patrizio Fariselli - electric piano, piano, clarinet, synthesizer *

Demetrio Stratos Efstratios Dimitriou ( el, Ευστράτιος Δημητρίου; 22 April 1945 – 13 June 1979), known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singe ...

- vocals, organ, clavicembalo, steel drums, percussion *Ares Tavolazzi - bass, trombone (only on tracks from 1974 on) *Giampaolo Tofani - guitar, synthesizer, flute *Eddie Busnello - saxophone (1973 tracks) *Patrick Djivas - bass, double bass (1973 tracks)

References

{{Area (band) Area (band) albums 1980 compilation albums