Area was an Italian avant-garde jazz-rock band that released the 1973–76 studio albums Arbeit macht frei, Caution Radiation Area, Crac!, and Maledetti (Maudits). They moved from Cramps to Ascolto for the 1978–80 albums 1978 gli dei se ne vanno and Tic & Tac. Members: Patrizio Fariselli (keyboards), Giulio Capiozzo (drums, percussion, 1972-76, 1977-99), Victor Edouard […]
Arbeit Macht Frei (Il Lavoro Rende Liberi) is the debut album by Italian avant-garde/jazz-rock band Area, released in 1973 on Cramps. The album presents a volatile synthesis of free improvisation, political commentary, and regional inflection. Its six tracks balance tightly arranged instrumental sections with sudden ruptures into free-form interplay and ambient abstraction. Vocalist Demetrio Stratos […]
Crac! is the third studio album by Italian avant-garde/jazz-rock band Area, released in 1975 on Cramps. A1. “L’Elefante Bianco” (4:33) A stark piano–vocal unison motif opens the track, delivered in Stratos’s chest register with clipped diction and upward leaps. Capiozzo enters with irregular snare bursts and cymbal accents, and the ensemble pivots into a rapid […]
1978 Gli Dei se ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! is the fifth studio album by Italian avant-garde/jazz-rock band Area, released in 1978 on Ascolto. A1. “Il Bandito del Deserto” (3:13) Capiozzo opens with an 11/8 pulse, over which Tavolazzi deploys syncopated bass figures, pocket-trumpet accents, and occasional mandola fills. Fariselli builds tension through Polymoog sustain […]
Maledetti (Maudits) is the fourth studio album by Italian avant-garde/jazz-rock band Area, released in 1976 on Cramps. A1. “Evaporazione” (1:45) Stratos opens with clipped whispers and semi-intelligible phonemes that scatter across a backdrop of quiet electronics. Tofani activates synthetic resonances and filtered oscillations that mimic a low-pulsing didgeridoo or electric razor, while brief percussive accents […]
