The Braen's Machine -

The Braen’s Machine was an Italian studio-psych project headed by library musicians Alessandro Alessandroni and Rino De Filippi. The project spawned three albums between 1971 and 1973 on Liuto and Usignolo.

Background

The Braen’s Machine formed in Rome in 1971 when composer-arranger Alessandro Alessandroni teamed with composer and RAI music supervisor Oronzo “Rino” De Filippi under the respective aliases Braen and Gisteri.

Alessandroni grew up partly in Soriano nel Cimino, where he learned guitar with help from a local player and took up mandolin as a teenager. He graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and entered film-session circles through production company Fonolux.

Nino Rota recruited Alessandroni for guitar sessions with his orchestra. In 1962, Alessandroni expanded Quartetto Caravels into the larger vocal ensemble I Cantori Moderni. By the late 1960s, he worked regularly on film scores with Ennio Morricone and Piero Umiliani and recorded the Sermi library album Alessandro Alessandroni e il suo complesso.

De Filippi worked as a music supervisor for RAI across the Sixties and cut the 1970 library albums Favole per ogni età and Condizione umana. Umiliani opened Sound Work-Shop in Rome in 1968 and used the studio for soundtrack and library sessions tied to the Liuto label. Alessandroni and De Filippi entered Sound Work-Shop in January 1971 under the Braen and Gisteri aliases, with Umiliani as producer for the sessions that became Underground.

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