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AMS 003LP
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"At last the very first legitimate reissue of this Neapolitan masterpiece dated 1972! The Showmen from Naples had some soul-influenced hits in the '60s featuring names like Mario Musella, James Senese (Napoli Centrale) and Elio D'Anna (Osanna). After a short time, Senese and Del Prete, aided by the guitarist Botta, reformed the group with a new line-up, this time much more influenced by the current Italian prog tendencies and released the album called Showmen 2. The album contains a peculiar mix of rock, jazz and prog, somewhere in between Osanna and the more dynamic British bands of jazz-influenced prog. The music is powerful, well played, with strong horn arrangements that make this album unique in the Italian prog scene of the time. The band disbanded after the album, founders Senese and Del Prete creating Napoli Centrale with a production of three jazz-rock albums in 1975-1977. In recent years, there have been some bootleg releases of this record, with poorly-mastered material, wrong artwork or with music taken from previous demo sessions. So this is the first legitimate reissue, taken from master tapes and with the original artwork. Not to be missed for lovers of the Naples prog scene (Osanna, Uno, Nova, Città Frontale, Cervello, Luna, Napoli Centrale). 500 copies."
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