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Artist:	AVIDA
Title:	Il Grillo e la Formica
Label:	CREME RECORDS (NETHERLANDS)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CREME 023EP

"From the files of Alexander Robotnik... another stunning piece of electronic music. The Avida project was created by Maurizio Dami (aka Alexander Robotnick) in 1981 in a period that Florence was blooming with top level creativity throughout all fields (theatre, fashion, design and music). Avida's music can be described as cabaret-dance; the lyric extremely irreverent and genuinely Florentine in style played a key role in it and that's the reason why the project became popular almost exclusively at local level. Avida perfectly fit in with a kind of underground music that was getting all the rage in Italy in those days: nonsense music (musica demenziale). The structures were intentionally primitive, often made on cheap electronics. Maurizio Damis vocals, inspired on early '60s Italian singers, such as Edoardo Vianello, had an appealing mix of trash and humour. Avida was essentially a live band. Their performances were a mix of theatre and music, where visuals played a major role. Anyway, today some of that music still sounds interesting and not only due to its lyric. In our opinion about the best music Alexander Robotnik ever made!"

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