THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,586) Mario Migliardi — “Apollo Beat”
A “[m]agnetic and surreal” (exotaras3732, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=G7AUQxGsmLs) instrumental/wordless choral freakout that starts out in 2001: A Space Odyssey territory before amping up the drums and guitar.
Fantastico! We can thank Mario Migliardi, “an Italian composer, pianist and conductor very active in composing soundtracks . . . between 1961 and 1972.” (Wikipedia (courtesy of Google Translate), https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Migliardi) “Apollo” comes from the LP Espressioni Musicali E Suoni D’Attualita’ E Di Moda 2/Musical Expressions and Sounds of Current Events and Fashion 2 (https://www.discogs.com/release/4839378-Various-Espressioni-Musicali-E-Suoni-DAttualita-E-Di-Moda-2?redirected=true)
As to Mario Migliardi, Violangelo Teatro/Violangelo Theater tells us (courtesy of Google Translate):
One of the most original musicians of the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of the Terzo Millennio Association. From Piedmont, he combined his university studies at the faculty of chemistry with his studies in music. After moving to Rome, he collaborated with RAI [Radiotelevisione italiana] and was soon called by Maestro Razzi to the newly founded Studio di Fonologia in Milan, where he became the animator with Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna. He deepened his studies on the decomposition of sound and on “Musique Concrete” and his experiments – in addition to making him a prestigious exponent of electronic music – influenced his production as a composer also in the field of light music. For the latter he collaborated again with RAI in Rome, as a composer, pianist, organist, arranger and conductor, also participating in popular entertainment programs, such as “Canzonissima”. We are at the end of the 60s and Migliardi – already artistic consultant of RCA Italiana – is called to the artistic direction of FONIT-CETRA, Roman headquarters, where he will remain until the 70s. He then resumes his musical experiments and orchestral direction, which sees him on the podium of both the Orchestra di Musica Leggera della RAI in Rome, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino, for radio and television programs with national and international artists, including Milly, Sandie Show, Milva. He then wrote the incidental music for Violetta Chiarini’s theatrical texts and the songs for the musical shows of the actress-singer and author, among which “E’ arrivato il tempo di essere” – from which the audiobook by Mondadori “Femminilità e femminismo”, directed by Gino Negri – “Io e me”, also a theatrical piece, broadcast in installments by RADIO-Due, “Vecchia Europa sotto la luna”, of which he curated the recording edition. He has recorded numerous electronic music, concrete music and light music, some of which appeared under the pseudonym of “Vidulescu”. For over seventeen years he was a teacher of composition and electronic sound recording at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome.
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