Woman's Colours [LP]

Barigozzi Group - Woman's Colours [LP]

In the early 1970s, Milan was a city defined by a restless, creative energy. Its recording studios hummed with
activity day and night, populated by an elite circle of jazz-trained session musicians who split their time between
tracking dates in the studio and jam sessions in the city’s clubs. Among them was Giancarlo Barigozzi, one of
the most revered flautists and saxophonists of the scene, who was just then beginning to navigate the enigmatic
world of library music.
The Barigozzi Group – formed alongside guitarist Sergio Farina and pianist Oscar Rocchi, both fellow
session musicians – became a defining ensemble of Italian library. Commissioned by publishers in Milan and
Rome, they produced some of the most exquisite library LPs of all time, records that effortlessly translated the
spirit of the era into sound.
Of these, Woman’s Colours stands as arguably their most iconic and celebrated achievement. Originally
released in 1974 on the Fonovideo label under the artistic supervision of Fabio Fabor, the album is a cohesive,
organic exploration of a single theme: a refined tribute to the female form, with every track associating a specific
colour with a different part of the body (“Violet Lips”, “Green Nails”, “Lilac Arms”, etc.).
While the subtitle "Pop Jazz – Pianoforte Elettroni(more...)