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Maria Monti

Maria Monti began her career as an actress, performing in the first half of the fifties in the first Milanese cabarets, presenting her own songs. 1974 was the year of publication of Il Bestiario, made with musical bases between jazz cabaret and electronic minimalism, with the participation of internationally renowned musicians including Alvin Curran, electronic arrangements and instrumentation, and Steve Lacy on soprano sax.

Maria Monti began her career as an actress, performing in the first half of the fifties in the first Milanese cabarets, presenting her own songs. 1974 was the year of publication of Il Bestiario, made with musical bases between jazz cabaret and electronic minimalism, with the participation of internationally renowned musicians including Alvin Curran, electronic arrangements and instrumentation, and Steve Lacy on soprano sax.

Il Bestiario
Limited to 500 copies. Includes poster and lyrics sheet. "Brilliant reissue of Maria Monti's Il Bestiario, originally released in 1974 and a prime example of the avant-garde art-song of the 1970s."Known for her renderings of Italian popular songs, Maria Monti is an Italian singer and actress with a noteworthy career: cabaret singer in the '60s, ambitious avant-garde folk artist in the '70s, and starring in films by directors as such as Sergio Leone's Fistful Of Dynamite (1971) and Bernardo Berto…
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