Wednesday, January 11, 2012

(New) Goblin (Rebirth) live albums.

New Goblin announced for February the release of the album "Live in Roma" with the recording of the concert that they held on February 18th, 2011 at  the Alpheus rock club. Contrary to what was stated earlier, the album will not include a DVD with the same performance filmed by director Luigi Pastore, maybe this DVD might 'arise' in the future, as a bonus for of some other product. The track list of 'Live in Roma' is: Magic thriller; Mad puppet, Dr. Frankenstein, Roller, E suono rock, Aquaman, Nonhosonno - Death farm, Goblin, L’alba dei morti viventi - Zombi, Suspiria, Tenebre, Phenomena, School at night – Profondo rosso, Zaratozom.
However there are no news about the release of the album with new studio material, initially scheduled for October 2011.




Even Goblin Rebirth are about to release their live album, recorded at the Crossroads club on April 22, 2011. Fabio Pignatelli asked to an old friend (well known to any true Goblin fan) to create a new logo with a different lettering. I saw the first sketches and I think that the basic idea is good. I appreciate very much that Pignatelli has opted for a talented artist and not for computer and Photoshop whose deleterious results are visible on many covers. I sincerely hope that this excellent artist will draft even the album cover.
I don’t want to spoil the surprise to the fans so I will simply say that the look of the evil new-born goblin is totally different and he does not play a violin anymore but a much more ‘suspiria linked ' musical instrument. For the lettering they’re thinking for a modern style but with some Roger Dean's reminiscences. Some passions, you know, never fade ...



In the meantime appeared on the Japanese market a variety of bootleg CDs with all the concerts played by the bands at the ‘Italian Progressive Rock Festival’ held in Kawasaki. With regard to New Goblin (however indicated simply as Goblin), "Wildlife Records" has published 'Inferno', a double CD with the November 4th 2011 concert, 'Volcano', a double CD with the November 5th show as headliners and a quadruple CD called 'Inferno / Volcano' which contains the two shows. "Wildlife Records" published four boxed sets, each one devoted to a day of the Festival, with all the concerts. The sets dedicated to the 4th and 5th November are respectively quadruple and quintuple. Of course are even available CDs with PFM, Osanna, Arti / Mestieri, Il Balletto di Bronzo and The Trip  shows.
Another (illegal, we’re talking about bootlegs) label, called SNE, has released several CDs with the shows of 'Italian Progressive Rock Festival': the one dedicated to New Goblin it’s a triple set named 'Suspiria to behind the core'.
Here are all the covers.













4 comments:

  1. Any idea where one could purchase the live albums?

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    1. Hi Ross!
      The double CD 'New Goblin Live in Roma' will be available from March 6, 2012. It will be distributed worldwide by Self so it should not be too difficult to find even on Amazon. The label BTF, the one who reissued many Goblin LPs, has already inserted ‘New Goblin live in Roma’ in his catalogue:
      http://www.btf.it/default.asp?ij=3&qa=p&qb=sc&xy=cl007&jk=17874&zp=104D&ln=E&opt=dettaglio
      Here is the Self page:
      http://www.self.it/ita/details.php?nb=8019991875087&tc=c

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  2. Thanks for the info! Can't wait to get this. Any idea when the Goblin Rebirth live CD will be released? I'm hoping for studio albums from both as well.

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  3. Thie New Goblin album is fantastic! I got a copy from Amazon.co.uk... Looking forward to more material from both Goblins!

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