Mauro Pagani – Mauro Pagani

Violinist Mauro Pagani left PFM in 1976 and released his self-titled first solo album in 1978. All of PFM guest on the album, as well as most of Area, Roberto Colombo, and other prominent Italian musicians. Here Pagani blends progressive rock with Mediterranean music, what today would be called world music.

n 1976 multi-instrumentalist and music writer Mauro Pagani left PFM, at the peak of their career, to start a brand new solo career. He probably felt the need to get away from the progressive rock clichés and a hectic on-the-road touring life, and therefore preferred to be free to record anything he wanted without restrictions or compromises.

We're talking about his eponymous debut LP, originally released in 1978 by Ascolto record label: a magnificent and surprising album, where Pagani could finally show his love for popular/ethnic music, something difficult to put into PFM's compositions. Almost every of his former bandmates, anyway, plays in this record, together with other great guests such as Area - first of all, their incredibl singer Demetrio Stratos - and the female vocalist Teresa De Sio. This album still sounds amazing today, the first of a long series of releases for Mauro Pagani, who led to the legendary "Creuza de mä" - composed with Fabrizio De André - in 1984.

Released on CD papersleeve in 2006 by BTF/Vinyl Magic, "Mauro Pagani" is now reissued on LP by the same label.
The vinyl transfer has been made for the first time with the DMM technology (Direct Metal Mastering), with the aim of offering an even better sound quality of the standard 180gr.