Cervello ("Brain") is a band from
Italy
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.
History
Cervello was formed by musicians from
Naples
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.
Corrado Rustici
Corrado Rustici (born 1957) is an Italian musician, songwriter and producer.
Recording career
Rustici was a founder member of the Naples-based progressive rock group Cervello. The band recorded the album '' Melos'' in 1973, with Rustici on guitar ...
, then 17 years old, was the younger brother of
Danilo Rustici, who was the guitarist of another popular rock band from Naples of these years, the
Osanna
Osanna are an Italian progressive rock band.
Origin
The group originated in the Vomero neighborhood of Naples with the union of Lino Vairetti (voice), Danilo Rustici (guitar), Massimo Guarino (drums), Lello Brandi (bass), from the first line ...
.
In 1973 the band released their sole album ''
Melos
Milos or Melos (; el, label=Modern Greek, Μήλος, Mílos, ; grc, Μῆλος, Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group.
The ''Venus d ...
'', a brilliant Italian symphonic progressive rock production. The band show good mastery of their instruments, dazzling in sometimes over-complicated passages. Flutes and saxophones are often used to replace the keyboards and
mellotron
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of many progressive works from this era.
In spite of critical praise the band broke up in 1974.
Corrado Rustici
Corrado Rustici (born 1957) is an Italian musician, songwriter and producer.
Recording career
Rustici was a founder member of the Naples-based progressive rock group Cervello. The band recorded the album '' Melos'' in 1973, with Rustici on guitar ...
, after a brief stint with the Osanna, and a lengthy tenure with Nova, started a successful career as a solo musician and producer.
Gianluigi Di Franco collaborated with percussionist
Tony Esposito
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in the early 1980s. He later dedicated himself to
musicotherapy researches.
In 2017, three of the original members, Antonio Spagnolo, Giulio D’Ambrosio and Corrado Rustici performed a concert in Tokyo with new band members Virginio Simonelli (lead vocals), Sasà Priore (keyboards) and Davide De Vito (drums). This was released as a live CD and DVD ''Cervello - Live in Tokyo 2017''.
Discography
*''
Melos
Milos or Melos (; el, label=Modern Greek, Μήλος, Mílos, ; grc, Μῆλος, Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwesternmost island in the Cyclades group.
The ''Venus d ...
'' (1973)
*''Cervello - Live in Tokyo 2017'' (2019)
See also
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
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Italian progressive rock
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Il Balletto di Bronzo
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Il Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
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La Locanda delle Fate
Locanda delle Fate (The Fairy Inn) is an Italian progressive rock band from the end of the Italian progressive rock movement.
The band formed in 1974 and in 1975 the vocalist Leonardo Sasso entered the group.Enzo Giannelli. "Locanda delle Fate". G ...
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Le Orme
Le Orme (Italian: "The Footprints") is an Italian progressive rock band formed in 1966 in Marghera, a ''frazione'' of Venice. The band was one of the major groups of the Italian progressive rock scene in the 1970s. They are one of few Italian r ...
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Osanna
Osanna are an Italian progressive rock band.
Origin
The group originated in the Vomero neighborhood of Naples with the union of Lino Vairetti (voice), Danilo Rustici (guitar), Massimo Guarino (drums), Lello Brandi (bass), from the first line ...
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Nova
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La Premiata Forneria Marconi
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Il Rovescio della Medaglia Il Rovescio della Medaglia, or RDM, were an Italian hard rock and symphonic rock band. They are most famous for their symphonic rock piece '' Contaminazione'', released in 1973. It contained four pieces from Bach's '' Well-tempered Clavier'' seamles ...
References
External links
Corrado Rustici's official siteItalian prog website
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Italian progressive rock groups