Banco (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Banco
Type = Album
Artist = Banco del Mutuo Soccorso


Released = 1975
Recorded = Chantalain Studio, Rome and Air Studios, London
Genre = Progressive rock
Label = Manticore K53507

"Banco" is a 1975 album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. The album was originally released on the Manticore label set up by Emerson, Lake and Palmer with whom the band shared a firm stylistic similarity. A lively and inventive collection of songs and instrumentals combining elements of classical chamber music, electronic rock and operatic song. Catalogue No. K53507. Now available on cd.

Personnel

*Pier Luigi Calderoni - Drums and Percussion
*Vittorio Nocenzi - Organ, Synthesizers, Electronic Strings
*Renato D'Angelo - Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
*Rodolfo Maltese - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Trumpet and Back Vocal
*Gianni Nocenzi - Grand Piano, Clarinet and Synthesizer
*Francesco DiGiacomo - Vocals

Track listing

# Chorale - 2.30
# L'albero del pane - 4.45
# Metamorphosis - 14.45
# Outside - 7.42
# Leave me alone - 5.20
# Nothing's the same - 9.58
# Traccia II - 2.24

Total running time approx 47 minutes 51 seconds

Mixed at Advision and Air Studios, London.

Engineers Martin Rushent and Andy Hendricksen