Art Fleury

condition (record/cover): NM / NM
“…under the pretext of releasing a concept album (the first of the new Italian rock scene) on the only radio station to survive the atomic war, called Radio Memoria, Art Fleury explored various genres: from reggae to funk, all the way to pro-Residents music…” Unfortunately, the work went almost unnoticed (try looking for traces of it, if you can, in period magazines or historical analysis publications like “le guide di Rumore”…), but despite this, and the risk of releasing two albums plus a 7” simultaneously (with virtually no promotional support), the vinyl records achieved a certain commercial success, probably thanks to the subsequent tour. When listened to, “Radio Memorie” is a kaleidoscope of sound that refracts notes and rhythms seamlessly, and the “broadcast” could go on forever without fear of changing channels. The last album opens RadioMemoria1 with quark and micrononsense (sound bridge to the first disc), immerses itself in the synthetic tension of cages and after having crossed the reggae and no-wave times of Lilith and fungus it reaches the central European Berlin among the bauhaus and kabarett echoes of B.Charlottenburg and K-123; we change sides and we find ourselves with RadioMemoria4 (perhaps in the middle they should play the RM2/3 of the other disc?), a brief return to the atmospheres of "I luoghi..." (rain) before exploring the free/jazz territories with the sensual nonsense October Tango and the stratifications of lights-in-the-city, continuing in the sound representation through the surreal fable and the theatre of the absurd of ghost's/culture and black-out and concluding among the exotic sounds of the romantic Debbie; the time to change the vinyl on the turntable and we start again with Hard fashion girl who, after the lounge-inspired cabaret of defective-heaven, broadcasts a RadioMemoria2 full of New York moods with a London interlude of UK-is-dead and, at the change of side, all the artistic splendor of the Art Fleury project emerges: a RadioMemoria3 that captures the band in a 'simulated' concert from St. Peter's Square, with all the typical ingredients of a real live show: a delirious crowd, Larsen distortions, the vocals in the foreground and a setlist full of rhythms and soaring sounds with the hit closing (Berlin Charlottenburg); the curtain falls on the radio: "... notre emission sont terminee..." while in the distance the sweet return of the cabaret of K-123.