AreA & Demetrio Stratos
AreA International POPular Group
• Demetrio Stratos - lead vocals, organ, steel drums
• Giulio Capiozzo - drums, percussion
• Patrizio Fariselli - piano, keyboards
• Paolo Tofani - lead guitar, synthesizer, VCS 3
• Ares Tavolazzi - bass guitar, trombone
Gianni Sassi • Patrick Djivas • Victor Edouard "Eddie" Busnello • Leandro Gaetano
• Johnny Lambizzi • Massimo Urbani • Pietro Tonolo • Sara Borsarini • Guido Guidoboni
• Larry Nocella • Paolo Dalla Porta • Pietro Condorelli • Angela Baggi
• Marco Micheli
Area - International POPular Group, most commonly known as Area
or AreA, is an Italian Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion,
Experimental Music, Electronic Music group formed by Demetrio Stratos
and Giulio Capiozzo in 1972. They were known for the outstanding musicianship
of the members of the band, and for their left-wing Socialist and
Communist lyrics.
Efstratios Demetriou (22 April 1945, Alexandria - 13 June 1979, New York)
better known as Demetrio Stratos was an Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist,
music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of
AreA - International POPular Group. Stratos' mission was to free vocal
expression from the slavery of language and pretty melodies.
His study of the voice used as a musical instrument carried him to reach for the limits of
human capabilities. Because of his great ability, his acquired techniques and his studies
with the CNR, he was able to overtake results that are still unattainable by others.
Daniel Charles has described him as the person who decimated monody by the
demultiplication of the acoustic spectrum. He achieved a diplophony which is
triplophonic, even quadraphonic. His vocalization became micro orchestrations (voice
instrument) without any technological amplification or manipulation.
Discography
Studio albums
• I Ribelli (1969; I Ribelli)
• Arbeit Macht Frei (1973; AreA)
• Caution Radiation Area (1974; AreA)
• Crac! (1974; AreA)
• Nova Musicha N. 1 (1974; John Cage. Demetrio Stratos features on track B3.
"Sitxy-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (Frammenti)"
• Maledetti (1976; AreA)
• Metrodora (1976; Demetrio Stratos)
• Cantata Rossa per Taal al Zaatar (1976; Gaetano Liguori, Giulio Stocchi
and Demetrio Stratos, featuring Concetta Busacca, Pasquale Liguori
and Roberto Del Piano)
• Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! (1978; AreA)
• Cantare la voce (1978; Demetrio Stratos)
• Futura: Poesia Sonora Antologia storico critica della poesia sonora
("Critical-historical anthology of sound poetry") (1978; AAVV;
Demetrio Stratos features on disc 7, track A2. "O Tzitziras o Mitziras")
• Mauro Pagani (1978; Mauro Pagani with Demetrio Stratos)
• Le Milleuna (1979; Demetrio Stratos; Text written by Nanni Balestrini)
• Carnascialia (1979; Demetrio Stratos)
• Tic&Tac (1980; AreA)
• Chernobyl (1997; AreA)
Live albums
• Are(A)zione (1975; AreA)
• Il concerto - Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos (1979; AAVV)
• Event '76 (1979; Demetrio Stratos, Paolo Tofani, Patrizio Fariselli, Steve Lacy
and Paul Lytton live 1976)
• Rock'n Roll Exhibition (1979; Demetrio Stratos live in 1978 with Paolo Tofani,
Mauro Pagani, Walter Calloni, Stefano Cerri and Paolo Donnarumma)
• Concerto all'Elfo (1995; Demetrio Stratos live performance of Cantare la voce)
• Parigi-Lisboa (1996; AreA)
• Concerto Teatro Uomo (1996; AreA)
• Live Concerts Box (1996; AreA)
• Live '77 (2003; AreA)
Compilations
• Anto/Logicamente (1977; AreA)
• Area '70 (1980; AreA)
• Gioia e Rivoluzione (1996; AreA)
• La Voce-Musica (1999; Demetrio Stratos)
• Revolution (2002; AreA)
• Stratosfera (2004; Demetrio Stratos)
• International Popular Group (2005; AreA)
• Gold Edition (2007; AreA)
; AreA)
Singles
• "Come Adriano / Enchinza Bubu" (1966; I Ribelli)
• "Per Una Lira / Ehi... Voi!" (1966; I Ribelli)
• "Chi Mi Aiuterà / Un Giorno Se Ne Va" (1967; I Ribelli)
• "La Follia / Pugni Chiusi" (1967; I Ribelli)
• "Goodbye / Josephine" (1969; I Ribelli)
• "Obladì Obladà / Lei m'ama" (1969; I Ribelli)
• "Oh Darling / Il vento non sa leggere" (1969; I Ribelli)
• "Daddy's dream / Since you've been gone" (1972; Demetrio Stratos)
• "L'abbattimento dello Zeppelin / Arbeit Macht Frei" (1973; AreA)
• "L'internazionale / Citazione da G. L. Jackson" (1974; AreA)
• O Tzitziras o Mitziras (1978; Demetrio Stratos)
Videos
• Suonare la voce (2006; Demetrio Stratos)
For more info about AreA & "The Master" Demetrio Stratos, please, see:
· AreA at wikipedia.org
· fariselliproject.com
· AreA at italianprog.com
· Demetrio Stratos at wikipedia.org
· Demetrio Stratos at italianprog.com
· Demetrio Stratos at progressiveworld.net
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