A Bottle of Water, this album is a true vintage analog sound. All songs have been composed, performed and recorded on Seventy’s (except two on early Eighty’s) by The Railroad’s Men, a band living and playing in Firenze (Italy) founded by Gualtiero Lemmi (composer, musician and sound engineer). Name is to be referred to the near railroad where their home studio recording was located (hard define it so..!!).
By clicking on the cover above, the audio streaming of the songs is available for those who are curious to listen to them. Long present on the main liquid music websites such as Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube Music, Tidal and others, these songs were later withdrawn. Anyone who is interested in this material can contact us by email.
LP Album
Recordings were made utilizing poor instruments and poor electronic equipment (someone “self-built” like a synth, mixer and effects), but with fancy and inspiration, mixing “live” and “overdubbing” technique (crossing tracks between two stereo open reel tape recorders) and storing sound on ¼ inch tapes.
Original tapes have been lightly restored and re-mastered and some songs, for the first time, locally published on CD titled A Bottle of Water, in limited edition. Surely sound that you may listen is really TRUE Vintage Analog Sound with good quality and some nice musical solutions like the use of ‘natural reverberation’, the solo-wooden flute (track 3) filtered thru a distortion box born for electric guitar and some tracks in which ‘bass score’ have been played with a Synth instead of electric bass guitar. Two tracks (‘Lord, this is not my home’ and ‘Broke‘) have been played by one musician only.
Musically, tracks are a compilation of different genres spacing thru pop, progressive rock, love songs, blues, electronic and concrete music, confirming that Railroad’s Men, five friends, were a selftaught, eclectic, minor Band but precursor of to-day PC Home Recording.
IT Version
Musicians: Gualtiero Lemmi (acoustics & electric guitars, vocals, acoustic piano, keyboards, synth, drums, flutes, percussions, sound effects), Stefano Martini (acoustic & electric guitars, vocal, percussions, sound effects), Paolo Peruzzi (electric bass, percussions, sound effects), Andrea Sereni (organ, synth, keyboards, harmonica, flute, guitars, percussions, sound effects), Valerio Amati (acoustic guitar)
- Dedicated to my Gal
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – A.Sereni) - Nuove Canzoni d’Amore
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini) - I’ll Still Be Free Now
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - I’ll Be Alone with You
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – A.Sereni) - Illusione e Ricordi
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini) - Walking in a Virgin Forest
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Lord This is not my Home
(G.Lemmi – traditional) - Urban Reflection for Electronics and Percussion
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – A.Sereni) - Largo in Rem (Bach-Vivaldi)
(arr. A.Sereni – Railroad’s Men) - Little Western Song
(G.Lemmi – V.Amati) - Percussive Key
(G.Lemmi) - Waiting down the Station
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Walter’s Blues, Babe Please
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Ready to catch a Catfish
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – A.Sereni) - Sunrise and Night
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – A.Sereni) - Hush One
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Can Leopard change his Spots?
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Stormy Guitar
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi – A.Sereni) - Android’s Awakening
(G.Lemmi – S.Martini – P.Peruzzi)
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