Essenza

by Claudio Rocchi

Essenza cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Ariston
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 46:17
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Italian singer-songwriter's fourth album is a deeply spiritual, highly philosophical masterpiece of progressive acoustic music. Blending traditional folk instrumentation with Eastern-inspired drone elements and mesmerizing chants, the recording perfectly encapsulates the mystic, countercultural zeitgeist of 1970s Italy. Its immersive, hypnotic atmosphere cements Rocchi's status as a visionary of European psychedelic folk.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, atmospheric, italian, retro, male-vocals, literate, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Essenza (7:05)
  2. Sono Un Uomo (9:23)
  3. 脠 Per Te (6:48)
  4. Radici E Semi (7:51)
  5. Templi E Mercati (6:55)
  6. Il Passo Da Fare (1:45)
  7. Per Sciogliere Un Fiocco (6:30)

Credits

  • Claudio Rocchi - primary artist, acoustic guitar [6-string], 12-string acoustic guitar, harmonium, organ, piano, vocals, lyrics by, music by, guitar, fortepiano, 12 string guitar, vocal
  • Sandro Malagola - acoustic guitar [6-string], acoustic guitar
  • Giacomo Di Martino - acoustic guitar [6-string], 12-string acoustic guitar, electric organ [eminent], backing vocals
  • Giorgio Federico Menzio - bass, contrabass, double bass
  • Chris Sacca - bongos
  • Bruno Perosa - bongos, timpani, gong, tubular bells, crotales
  • Lorenzo Vassallo - congas, tabla, harpsichord, cymbal, vibraphone, bass drum, shaker [tubo di sabbia], cymbal [dischi volanti tibetani], percussion
  • Eugenio Pezza - mellotron [pianoforte-mellotron]

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