Great Complotto-Pordenone/ Various - Great Complotto-Pordenone / Various

Finally reissued on vinyl by Spittle, the seminal compilation of the post-punk undercurrents of northern Italy. Great Complotto is been an amazing story, one you would like to live yourself, even more than 30 years later. A typical story of suburban Italy, based in Pordenone, when creativity was on top and the shortage of technical resources didn't keep the dream from coming true. That was the driving force of the often underestimated Italian punk scene. At the end of the seventies a bunch of musicians from Pordenone joined the punk wave spreading all over the UK, making their way to London for a bizarre pirate live event. HitlerSS and Tampax played under the Aklam Bridge in Portobello Road. That was 1979. The performance was soon after known as the "Cartoon Concert" – because the members of the band played fake cardboard instruments. That was a shocking happening that could only be matched by the absurdist Spaghetti Performance that Skiantos played @ Bologna Rock in 1979. The Great Complotto was the cure, the vital alternative to the western standard way of life. This sought-after record was released in 1980 and soon after was welcomed as the Pordenone manifesto, an incredible and extremely innovative musical scene, not only aware of the British revolution but even tuned into the more eclectic US form of art and post punk (think early Devo, Residents and New York no wave). On this compilation you'll get an idea of the raucous genius of : HitlerSS/Tampax, Mess, Fhedolts, Sexy Angels, Andy Warhol Banana Technicolor, Mind Invaders, 00101100110011, Musique Mecanique, W.K.W., Little Chemist and Waalt Diisneey Prod. Enjoy.