Carucci, Ninni (Nombre personal)

ULTIMA SPIAGGIA was not really a band proper, but rather a project of some well known Italian musical figures which encompassed both the launching of a record label and the creation of an ambitious recording to celebrate it. Both were called Ultima Spiaggia. The label was formed in 1974 by the legendary Ricky Gianco along with Nanni Ricordi and Gianfranco Manfredi. It released albums for the rest of the 1970s and was distributed by RCA. The label released the works of the people involved, along with GRAMIGNA, I.P.SON GROUP, and many others. Although the label's releases only occasionally crossed paths with "prog rock" he did have an interest in promoting unique and exceptional sounds. The musical project Ultima Spiaggia was a large collective of impressive musicians who concocted a long lost gem entitled "Disco dell'angoscia" in 1975. Composed by Gianco, Manfredi, Ninni Carucci, and Claudio Bonechi, the work was an ambitious and strange concept album about a man involved in a car accident and his subsequent journey through a dark unconscious state. The material resides on that wonderfully odd, avant branch of the RPI, where traditional RPI and Italian song tradition get genetically modified with 1970s experimentation. One blog nails the description as swerving between musique concrète, pop, avant-garde, beat, rock n roll, old-fashioned melodies, progressive rock...like continuously switching the stations of a radio tuned to the distorted brainwaves of a man fallen. Indeed! (-laltritalia.wordpress) This project band did not last, although Gianco and Manfredi remained friends for life and collaborated on other musical ventures. Most of the members can be found in multiple others musical projects too numerous to list, but a few of note: Hugo Heredia would work with Antonius Rex and released his own album. Cappellotto worked with Branduardi. De Piscopo played with Lucia Dalla and New Trolls. The stunning gatefold cover artwork was done by Paolo Baratella. Without question this is an album badly in need of a quality CD reissue which displays the artwork in mini-lp form. The photo on this page is Gianco and Manfredi later in life. Gianco is on the right. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7265