Pfm

Biography

" The Rewarded Forneria Marconi has been probably most representative band of progressive rock the Italian one, let alone the only one to collect a remarkable one happening to the foreign country and in particular in the United States, arriving quite to catch up the first positions in the classifiche Americans. The history of the P.F.M. takes the way during the period of beat (years ' 60), from the group of the ""Those"", composed from Pine Favarolo and Teo Teocoli to the guitars and voices, Franz Di Cioccio on drums and George Public square to the bottom, to which they are gone to little add after Flavio Prewharves to the keyboards and Alberto Radius and Franco Mussida to the guitars.
The Those achieve in short a good ones happening in Italy with cover of foreign songs, moreover (thanks to the great technique and the musical experience of theirs members) are richiestissimi in know it of recording (find them in fact like Those with Lucio Battisti and Fabrizio De André , while the single ones are present in several formations with Mine , Nomadi and Camaleonti).
In the 1970 Teo Teocoli it leaves the group for the cabaret, Alberto Radius in order to go to form Formula Three, and also Of Cioccio it leaves for some months in order to play with the New Equipe 84. To the end of 1970 Of Cioccio, Mussida, Prewharves and Public square form the Rewarded Forneria Marconi; the name (that it will often come abbreviated in PFM) derives from the place where they try, one old forneria of Brescia. To they one joins endured after the polistrumentista Mauro Pagani (former Dalton). The debut happens in 1971 to the Lyric Theatre of Milan like support of the Yes (to their first tournee Italian), where they propose, in excellent way, brani of groups of oltremanica like the King Crimson; this ""important"" debut allows it immediately attract attention and to appreciate is from the public that gives the critic; endured Mogol is interested to they, than for the label Number One decides to prepare the first album of the band.
After little months from the escape of the disc the quintetto it is gia famous and ""History of a minute"" will come taken in the numerous time to model from other groups.
In 1972 it exits according to album of the group, ""For a friend"", than of it it emphasizes the expressive maturity and the abilities to agreement; but the true boom of the P.F.M. is of 1973: in that year it comes in fact published for the foreign market ""Photos of ghosts"", one collection of previous the better brani of the two album.
A group catches up therefore the summit of the Italian classifiche, while with ""Photos of ghosts"" it enters in classifies also in the United States. Their activity from the alive one becomes to ollow itself of concerts and participation to several gatherings POP. In 1974 the island of nothing exits """", first disc to which participates to the bassista Jean Patrick Djivas (former Area), succeeded in to replace George Public square (that it will pass instead to the Crystals).
The disc, published to the foreign country with the title it ""The world became the world"", is sure more sophisticated of the previous ones and will allow the P.F.M. to little obtain a good ones happening also during the tour in the United States to support, Santana, Beach Boys and others, tour in which they are exhibited moreover to several festival POP, and that it will come immortalato in the disc ""Live in U.S.A.""(uscito to the foreign country like"" Cook"").
In 1975 it enters in formation Bernardo Lanzetti, coming from from the Fragile Water, and exits the album ""Chocolate Kings"", that it comes but boycotted in the USA to continuation of the participation of the PFM to a roman concert in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Subsequently they complete a tour in Japan, to I re-enter of which Mauro Pagani leaves the group (seems for ideological dissents). In the 1976 a pair of collections of brani drawn from the album exits for the Italian market previous: ""First impressions"" and ""Celebration"". The successive album, ""Jet Lag"", exits in 1977 and turns out oriented more to the jazz-rock regarding previous discs of the PFM, thanks also to the contribution (than it will be get exaustedded with this LP) of the violinista Gregory Bloch. In this same year ""Anthology"" exits moreover an other collection from the title it. In 1978 ""Passpartù"" exits, with the witnesses of the cantautore Manfredi: the job, under the expectations, passes nearly unnoticed.
After the escape of this Lanzetti disc one goes away from the group in order to undertake the solista career, while it enters in organic the violinista Lucio Fabbri. In 1979 the Rewarded Forneria Marconi (with the collaboration of the tastierista Roberto Columbus) accompanies Fabrizio De André in a memorable one tour: music of the group will give to new light to the most famous songs of the cantautore, creating evocative atmospheres in perfect tuning with the witnesses. The event comes documented in the album from the alive ""De André and P.F.M. in concert"", containing a ten of brani, to which, seen the optimal one happening, it follows little after ""De André and P.F.M. in concert - Vol. 2"".
In 1982 the group is engaged in a tour during which it comes recorded the album from the alive ""Performance"", dopodichè the new one exits
""Pfm? Pfm!"", that it contains a piece that will have a good ones happening in Italy also to outside of the cerchia of the conoscitori of the PFM: ""brave Captains"". A pause in the activity of the group is had therefore until arriving in 1987 to the escape of ""Miss Baker"", album in which, introduced the breaths, music is perhaps more neighbor to the dance that to the rock. After this experience the group decides not to give more concerts and every element undertakes artistic plans and professional it characterizes them, even if officially the issolution of the Rewarded Forneria Marconi will not be had never.
In the years succeeded to you the escapes of two anthologies of the group are ollowed on the Italian market (""the album of... PFM ""in the 1988 and"" PFM - the large ones of the rock ""in 1993) and of the recording of one show executed to the TV in the years ' 70 (""Impressions vent' years after""). We arrive therefore to that it is at this point history today, with the resetting, ten years after the last album of the group, a formation that it comprises Of Cioccio, Djivas, Mussida and Prewharves, and that, after to have promoted to the end of 1996 the realization of a wonderful one cofanetto composed from 4 CD that document the activity from the alive one of the PFM from 1971 to the 1981 (""PFM - 10 live years the 1971-81"") and escape to name of Franz Di Cioccio of equally an interesting book that tells the history of band (""the PFM - Two times in the life "", And Mondadori), gather of new in know it of to give to the light the 24 You open them 1997 new concept the album of the Rewarded Forneria Marconi: ""Ulisse"".
The new disc comes received well, is from the old ones fan that from public the more young person, even if there is who obbietta that the kind stretches more to the POP that to progressive of the old style P.F.M., but on one what is sure all daccordo: the reunion of the P.F.M. is not (or perlomeno) an operation not only trades them, the ""boys"" has still much to say. As of other part it comes confirmed from tour that it is carried out in the all Italy between the end of 1997 and the beginning of the 1998 (Ulisse Tour), where group finds happened and an enthusiasm that perhaps one did not expect; probably also for this it comes decided to record (in the evenings of Naples and Rome of tour) a new album from the alive one: ""www.pfmpfm.it (the Best)"".
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