Il Rovescio della Medaglia explained

Il Rovescio della Medaglia
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Origin:	Rome, Italy
Genre:	Progressive rock
Years Active:	1970-1977 1993–present

Il Rovescio della Medaglia, or RDM, were an Italian hard rock and symphonic rock band. They are most famous for their symphonic rock piece Contaminazione, released in 1973. It contained four pieces from Bach's Well-tempered Clavier seamlessly integrated with RDM's own music, which often was inspired by rock or hard rock. In 1974 the record was released in an English version, Contamination, with the group's name simplified to RDM, although still written in full on the back of the LP jacket.

The band was produced by Luis Enríquez Bacalov.

The band split up in 1977, but reformed in 1993.^{[1] [2]}

Personnel

As listed on Contamination:

• Gino Campoli - percussives
• Enzo Vita - guitar
• Stefano Urso - bass
• Franco di Sabbatino - keyboard
• Pino Ballarini - vocals

Discography

• La Bibbia (1971)
• Io come io (1972)
• Contaminazione (1973) ^[3]
• Contamination (English version of Contaminazione, 1975)
• Giudizio avrai (1988)
• Vitae (1993)
• Il Ritorno (1995)

CD releases

• Contaminazione

South Korea, Si-Wan Records SRMC 1002, 1992. Booklet in Korean and (original) Italian.

See also

• Italian progressive rock
• Il Balletto di Bronzo
• Il Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
• I Cervello
• La Locanda delle Fate
• Le Orme
• Osanna
• Nova
• La Premiata Forneria Marconi

Italian progressive LPs re-recorded in English

• Felona e Sorona by Le Orme
• Per un amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi
• L'isola di niente by Premiata Forneria Marconi
• Maxophone by Maxophone

Sources

• Book: Paolo Barotto . Il ritorno del pop italiano . Stilgraf . Luserna San Giovanni . 1989 . Barotto.
• Book: Cesare Rizzi . Enciclopedia del rock italiano. . Milano . 1993 . Rizzi . 88-7966-022-5.
• Book: Alessandro Bolli. Dizionario dei Nomi Rock. Arcana editrice. Padova . 1998. 978-88-7966-172-0.
• Book: Frazz . Alessandro Gaboli e Giovanni Ottone . Progressive italiano. Giunti . Firenze-Milano. 2007. Frazzi. 978-88-09-04794-5.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Il Rovescio della Medaglia.
2. Web site: Archived copy . 2013-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130708051238/http://www.ilrovesciodellamedaglia.it/ChiSiamo.asp . 2013-07-08 . dead .
3. The Italian-language version features Johann Sebastian Bach on the cover of the LP and CD. The album's full title is Contaminazione di alcune idee di certi preludi e fughe del Clavicembalo ben temperato di J. S. Bach (English: Contamination of some ideas from certain preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach).