Filippo Diana - The Haunted PalaceFilippo Diana's The Haunted Palace is the second album of unreleased tracks published by Musica Per Immagini, or a sort of soundtrack for an imaginary horror film set in a bloody past, inspired by the book The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The artist formerly known as Joe Drive used analog and digital synthesizers, as well as microphones and computers, to describe in notes the ancestral practices of resurrection of the dead

An original outlet

worked in the studio and on stage with Afro legend Dele Sosimi and most recently released an album under his own name that collected myriad different sonic sketches from the past 15 years

The second in Jazz Room's occasional Pure Latin releases this Underground Masterpiece first emerged in 1980 and is an outstanding example of the Classic Era Nu Yorican El Barrio Underground Sound

jazz-infused arrangements that are reminiscent of some of Italy's finest singer-songwriters (Lucio Battisti and Pino Daniele in particular)

Argentine Tango

ragga style basslines

And Issam also played on some of Ziad's recordings and sessions

the disdain for genre

How they go around

Another big 12" that fits somewhere between a Rhythm Tracks DJ tool or Undiscovered basement reel to reel demo tape

Sides C-D originally issued as [r=1488139 (Prestige P-7200)

warming chords and superb lead vocals from the effervescent Leee John