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Finally repressed, milestone reissue! 1973 debut, a stunning overall work where you can hear a lot of different musical influences: avant-garde folk, mediterranean blues, jazz improvisation, minimalism, African percussions, Indian ragas all played with a true psychedelic feeling. The album was recorded in a few days in a totally acoustic dimension and the line-up seems to be a quintet of contemporary music more than a progrock group (although this music is "progressive" in all the meanings of the word). The mergence of all these styles and the cleverness and the deep inspiration of the musicians managed to create a new kind of musical art, something located between Morocco and India, Sicily and Turkey, Balkans and Persia. The wide array of musical instruments used during the recording sessions of "Aktuala" is simply striking. Walter Maioli was Aktuala's leader.He founded in 1972 a musical commune of lovers of ethnical music. His aim was the recovery of the spirit of an universal popular music, utilizing the experiences of all people in the world but without the mediation of the classical culture. "Their blissed, blasted and acutely attuned acoustic astral excursions tapping a vein of tranquil psychedelic knowing thats poised between the ethno-tripping end of the krautrock spectrum ala Embryo, Between and Agitation Free's Malesch and the exploratory acoustic probings of American outfits like Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble, Arica and Seventh Sons". ~Mutant Sounds."
