Details:
Black vinyl / 505mcn paper / 30 x 60 cm Insert with Liner Notes by Tony Higgins printed on 250 mcn Lenza Top Recycling Paper / Condensed interview to Spata Sisters and exclusive pictures.
Personnel:
Enzo Randisi – Musser Percussion Keyboards
Riccardo Randisi – Acoustic Piano, Rhodes, ARP & Korg Keyboards
Marcello Pellitteri – Drums
Giuseppe Costa – Acoustic Bass & Electric Bass Guitar
Mimmo Cafiero – Congas & Percussions
Sandro Palacino – Tenor and Soprano Saxes
Loredana Spada – Vocalist
Cinzia Spata – Vocalist
Mary Lo Giudice – Vocalist
Mariella Gueli – Vocalist
Notes:
Did someone say Summer? Sicily is what Cuba is to the Caribbean, sun, sea, easy and friendly people with lots of troubles! You won’t find anything better around that identifies the summer more than this album by Enzo Randisi who at the beginning of the 80s put together a Swing Ensemble as a tribute to that “cheerful” movement of Jazz music. But Enzo and his fellas just couldn’t stay on track and put in the best that the alternative Palermo area could offer in that historical period, like the sisters Cinzia and Loredana Spata, who brought the production to a next level in the vocal version of All Blues or in Chic Corea’s Spain. But what really struck us was Charles Cables’ version of “Quite Fire” (here missspelled as “Quite Fair”), released a few months earlier only in Japan and which would only become famous in the 90s with the Acid Jazz movement, and this tells us a lot about how hungry Enzo and Riccardo were of musical knowle, to be able to find some pearls in a city with basically no record shops and isolated…well…it’s on an island! For this re-press we enlisted Tony Higgins, who recently finished a very long commitment and greenlight to delight us with his polished English…Welcome back Tony!
