Federico Fantacone, the driving force behind the Italian project Orchestre Celesti, has unveiled “The hallucinatory seaplane” (“L’Idrovolante Allucinante“), a track that bridges half a century of musical history. Available now on Bandcamp, the piece is a meticulous restoration and orchestration of a cassette recorded in the summer of 1975, originally titled “La Cava di Pietra.”
Purchase and Stream “The Hallucinatory Seaplane” via the Bandcamp player below:
Federico Fantacone states:
In the summer of 1975, a seventeen-year-old beginner organist, a fifteen-year-old experienced classical pianist, and a shy classical guitarist, also thought to be fifteen, met at the pianist’s home for a free improvisation and recording session. The result was a cassette titled “La Cava di Pietra.” Having survived to this day, though badly damaged, the cassette was restored by the organist, who extracted four segments, orchestrated them, and transformed them into a single piece of approximately four minutes. The piece is titled like the improvisation on the first side of the cassette: L’Idrovolante Allucinante. Today, the organist is still a beginner, the pianist is now an internationally recognized concert performer, and the guitarist is supposedly still shy. Dedicated to that period and those people.