Awake (Rino de Filippi), Italy

First Born. 1972 Smash. Reissued as Riflessi under the name Rino de Filippi (1978 Edipan).

To me this sounds like an Italian film library album, for which there are dozens. It has that cool 60's jet-set jazz funk feel - music for the martini drinking James Bond crowd. The thing is, many of these library albums went by different titles and artist names.

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For a long while we could not find any data about this album which we thought the band name was First Born.

Augusto Croce, author of the the Italian Prog site, later discovered more info about the album. And I  was right - it sure enough is a film library album. The artist is Rino de Filippi, going by what appears to the name of Awake. I can't tell by the front cover, but Augusto tells us: "The author is Rino De Filippi, a library music composer using the nickname Awake in this case. The album was released on Smash, a minor label that also issued the rare album by I Boom."

Today (8/22/24), Discogs has complete info about the album and the artist who went on to release at least four more albums.

Priority: none

***Reissued on LP (the Riflessi issue) by Sonor Music Editions (2015).

12/10/10