Area / Paolo Tofani - The Complete Florence / London Sessions. CD. (Beat It - BEAT302CD) One of Italy’s greatest-ever guitar talents, Paolo Tofani is perhaps best known for his involvement in the seminal Italian avant-rock band, Area (1972-1979), but he was actually also a very a versatile multi-instrumentalist and innovative producer as this collection of ‘pre-Area’ sessions clearly shows. With very little in the way of high-tech studio equipment and Tofani playing every instrument and producing himself (mostly in home-studios), these ‘one-man band’ sessions are an important piece of Italian musical history, not only because Tofani was doing things here, both musically and technically, that nobody else in Italy was doing at the time, but also because Tofani’s influence on Italian music can still be felt today. Sessions - 1966: recorded at Studio Due in Florence for NET label); 1970-71: recorded in Tofani’s home studio in Florence; 1971-72 recorded in Tofani’s home-studio in London.

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