I think this is my favourite album cover ever. I like boats and boat art. Paintings should only be of boats. It's the only worthy art.
I know I have an mp3 of this somewhere or maybe it's long gone with my computer from 2010. I do recall this being one of the best library records I encoutered back in 2007-2012, the heyday of the file sharing blog era... whenever it was when they invented mediafire. The idyllic seaside cover is a bit misleading as only a couple of tracks have a charming scenic beauty, mostly the coastal tranquility sours and a bustling nervous energy darkens the tone as it all turns a bit ominous. Obviously the music would have been perfectly suited to a documentary featuring creatures living under the sea whose doom is always looming.
Porto Di Lavagna [1977]
Mostly blissful serenity with interludes of foreboding clouds.
Catamarano Baloo [1977]
Sea breezy cheese. Copacetic pleasantness with occasional swells into elated zones. Nice.
Vela 6 [1977]
I honestly can't think of another piece of music like this. An impeccable sound design of layered synths and assorted keyboards. Those thickly textured serene synths combined with with those uneasy fidgety organ runs, thin melodic keyboard lines, fluttery pianos and the swirling dark aquatic synthetic bass tones bubbling away create a strange world of sound.
Circolo Vizioso [1977]
More of a suspenseful horror synth soundtrack vibe from the get go. Hypnotic and haunted.
Soling SOS [1977]
Cataclysmic thick synthetic textures and sporadic sinister percussion. Echoing keyboards of gloom and a triangle of impending doom.
Speaking of boat art here's a great boat painting.
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