L'ESTATE DI SAN MARTINO - ALDER - 20

An Italian band from Perugia with a very long story, that hadn't left any recordings until recently, apart from a lonely track on a rare split promo single. L'Estate di San Martino was created in 1975 to provide the musical background to a theatre play with a sound mostly based on acoustic guitars, flute and percussion. In 1978 the group took part in the Centocittà contest, reaching the final show in Capri and winning the chance of recording the single "Il Bimbo e l'Eroe". The record was released, but only in promotional form.

In the following years the line-up became stable with the addition of new musicians to enrich the sound, with use of keyboards, electric guitar and drums, and the group had an intense live activity mostly in Umbria, with shows based on concept projects, and long tracks with large instrumental parts.
The "Alder" CD, issued in 2006, contains a full show recorded in Perugia in 1983 on 15 and 16 December 1983 at the Zenith Theatre when other important bands such as MARILLION, IQ and PENDRAGON were starting off their careers.

L'Estate di San Martino was one of the very first italian prog bands of the second wave, just before NOTTURNO CONCERTANTE, EDITH and NUOVA ERA. The music isn't far from the classics of GENESIS and, obviously, PFM. Paradoxically this phase coincided with the temporary end of the group which was then re-formed ten years later to work on another project: "Febo". An idea which in spite of a long, careful and fertile creative period which lasted five long months, was delivered and aborted without ever being performed in public. In 2007, finally Febo saw the light. Adolfo Broegg, after a long experience in Assisi with the medieval-inspired Ensemble Micrologus group, suddenly died in 2006.
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