CONTRAZIONE / FRANTI- Split LP (selfproduced, Italy, 1984)
cover scans curently down A split LP that gathered two bands with a different musical approach, in order to take down certain barriers that were set up highly still in the earlier days of HC.
Most of you will know CONTRAZIONE from “Sbarre” which was featured on the essential PEACE WAR double LP (Rradical Records) and FRANTI are known for a unique blend of Punk, Folk, Experimental and Jazz (they have a great Double CD compiling the bands musical work with some great material).
This Split LP has a lot more to offer in terms of variety than their contemporaries had; maybe that’s why these bands were often regarded as outsiders. I’m sure though that at least the thrash songs will be fancied quite a bit by the occassional italian HC fanatic. But I’d suggest that you try and dig yourself into both bands, it’s really worth it. And don’t get put off by the first CONTRAZIONE song; it’s definately the weakest of theirs and definatly not a good starter. The FRANTI side is spectacularly good, though not for the impatient listeners! Crazy how so talented musicians with such a unique way of putting feelings of desperation and fragility into their work, could vanish just like that. “Gate of Eden” is a Bob Dylan song, as you will probably know. It’s actually not on the tracklist on the label.
CONTRAZIONE had a full LP a while after this, with more experimental stuff, but all delivered in the same anger and power italian HC is known for. Said LP actually is pressed onto the thinnest vinyl I’ve ever seen - it’s more like a 12″ Flexi than what you’d call an LP. Might be giving it a featurre here soon, cause it is, like this, very hard to find.
Whoever has the insert to this split LP, please get in touch. Thanks! PS: Thanks Imants for the scans of the booklet!
CONTRAZIONE: Nausea.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: Cieli rossi sull’europa.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: Metropoli.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: A sudi di torino.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: Condannato.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: Sbarrre.mp3
CONTRAZIONE: Voci negate.mp3
FRANTI: 1984 / GGate of Eden.mp3
FRANTI: Questa e l’ora.mp3
FRANTI: Quesiti da sciogliere.mp3
FRANTI: Voghera.mp3
FRANTI: Prete, croce, sedia e morte.mp3
FRANTI: Io nella notte (Live 17/12/1983).mp3
Phil_From_Silverlake wrote:
Erich,Contrazione’s Metropoli and voci negate is not available to download for some reason.Great stuff as always though, thanks.
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 7:28 am | Permalink
Erich wrote:
All links working now. “Metropoli” is actually the best song on that side.
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 9:04 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
another quality job. best music, best rips!!!!
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 10:03 am | Permalink
mauro wrote:
I am living in Italy. This disc is ultra rareity. Grazie!
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 10:11 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Thumbs up!!! You finally posted something worthwhile!
Posted on 05-Apr-07 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
finally something worthwhile? this blog is full of great stuff, asshole.
Posted on 06-Apr-07 at 1:10 am | Permalink
Simon wrote:
Hey Erich–
I’m all for informed, spirited discussion, and no one needs to agree on everything (thank allah), but why not just erase the retard comments that add nothing to the blog’s purpose? Especially when they’re just left by anonymous shitstains with too much time on their hands.
Posted on 06-Apr-07 at 7:42 pm | Permalink
Erich wrote:
Sure Simon - I keep deleting the worst of these comments who all seem to be coming from one or maybe two persons (no more). I’m just not doing this 24 hrs a day, you know
Posted on 07-Apr-07 at 3:54 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
thanks for this. you rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 08-Apr-07 at 11:04 am | Permalink
riotfist wrote:
I really enjoyed these two bands. Thanks for posting them.
Posted on 16-Apr-07 at 3:31 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Impossible t find album. I treid for years now but no way of finding one. Friend says there were 300 made of this. But thanks so much for making me hear it at least!!!
Posted on 24-Apr-07 at 10:34 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
grazie!
Posted on 02-May-07 at 6:00 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
i have the insert - xerox - here in Brazil.
call me on museudofuturo@gmail.com or visit us at http://www.bonequinhologia.blogspot.com
Thanx so much. got a lot of native punk vinyls here.
Posted on 10-May-07 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
stef wrote:
Ciao. Thanx a lot. Really really nice to see someone is still listening. We haven’t actually disapperead, never stopped palying, just changed name! Lalli and me (stefano giaccone) still publishing albums. ..not punk, though. All our music has been reissued by stella nera in Venice. check on the net c/o A Rivista Anarchica, stella nera albums and cds distro. I jsut played in italy supporting John Doe of X. I live in UK. un grosso abbraccio. stef started franti and blu bus label in 1983. check also “Howth Castle” on Father Yod USA
Posted on 14-Dec-07 at 4:54 pm | Permalink
janaka wrote:
Hi dopo una notte ho trovato questo sito
tutto da scoprire e da ascoltare.
Bene se e possibile avere altri siti , sono
soddisfatto di questo qui chi si accontenta gode
spero non solo
Posted on 17-Jan-08 at 4:04 am | Permalink
diego ghiddini wrote:
this is history of PoPuLar culture in italy
thanks for this.. great
Posted on 29-Jan-08 at 10:32 am | Permalink
mark h wrote:
The mini-LP “Cine occhio – storia e memoria” (1985 blubus autoproduzioni) is great. I think it was better than the more traditional punk stuff that they did and I still play it 20 years later. I think some members of Contrazione (Gianpiero?) went on to be come Kina and then Frontiera
Posted on 07-Feb-08 at 3:47 am | Permalink
papalla wrote:
Well… remembering the old days.. i used to play bass for Contrazione in the first line-up. i remember playing right before DISORDER in Bologna in 1982(or was it 83?!?) in front of a very big crowd(the same afternoon there had been a demonstration with some tensions with the police…as usual…so people were very excited by the time we played).
don’t think we ended the gig, because people started throwing stuff to us(we wern’t very loud and fast)and it all ended up in a contained fight…anyway
it was fun….
Posted on 22-Feb-08 at 4:56 pm | Permalink
Petrovic wrote:
THANX for sharing this great LP !
I was familiar with Contrazione side, but I didnt know Franti, whis is also good band.
Keep on, thanx a lot,
greetings from Serbia
Posted on 24-Feb-08 at 4:59 am | Permalink
Petrovic wrote:
If anyone can help with cover-scan, please point the place where we could see, I tried bonequin blogspot , but I didnt see anything there! Ta! Cheers!
Posted on 24-Feb-08 at 5:02 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Sorry bout the missing cover photos - when I migrated the blog from blogspot.com to my new host, all the scan & photo links broke and needed to be manually relinked. It’s a shitload of work to get that back working and I’ve never really come around doing it.
Posted on 24-Feb-08 at 5:28 am | Permalink
papalla wrote:
hi there
i can post a picture of both sides of the cover + inside record labels
for the inside booklet i can scan it (it’s gonna take some time) no problem
just let me know where to send it
tappo’
ciao
Posted on 21-May-08 at 1:31 pm | Permalink