| Uomo di pezza | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Le Orme |
| Cover: | Uomodipezza.jpg |
| Released: | 1972 |
| Recorded: | 1972 |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 31:47 |
| Language: | Italian |
| Label: | Philips |
| Producer: | Gian Piero Reverberi |
| Prev Title: | Collage |
| Prev Year: | 1971 |
| Next Title: | Felona e Sorona |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
Uomo di pezza is an album by the Italian progressive rock band Le Orme.[1] It was released in 1972 and was one of their best selling works, which won an Italian award disco d'oro.[2]
Compared to the previous album, it shows many more classical elements: the opening of the album, for example, is a chaconne of Johann Sebastian Bach, played on piano by Gian Piero Reverberi. Furthermore, Tony Pagliuca plays a synthesizer for the first time.[3]
The title Uomo di pezza means "rag doll man". The doll character comes from the lyrics of the song "Gioco di bimba". The lyrics of Uomo di pezza describe a helpless masculine attitude, juxtaposed to an unknown, inscrutable feminine universe.