Delirium

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The Delirium is an Italian progressive rock band, active since 1970.

Formed in Genoa in the late sixties with the name of Sagittari, the Delirium complex adopts the definitive acronym in 1970, with the entry of a very young Ivano Fossati to the voice, keyboards and flute. The following year the band won the "La Strada del Successo" competition, organized by Radio Montecarlo, and after a few months won the title "Revelation" at the First Festival of Avant-garde Music and New Trends of Viareggio with the song Canto by Osanna, a song that gets great success abroad and will be recorded in the French, English and German versions. Also in 1971, the Delirium complex makes its first album, Dolce Acqua. The band is noted on the stage of many pop gatherings, such as the "Davoli Pop" of Reggio Emilia and the "Festival Pop" of Palermo. In 1972 the complex participates in the Sanremo Festival with the song Jesahel, a song that will become a hit: the album of which will sell tens of thousands of copies. While performing on the stage of the festival the band is accompanied by a group of friends dressed as hippies, who play guitars and sing in chorus; among them there are Oscar Prudente, Sara Borsarini (already an interpreter of some Battisti songs), Mario Lavezzi and Alberto Canepa (of the Theatrical Music Assembly). The same year the band participates in the event A disco for the summer, with an excellent placement in the final classification with the song Haum !.

In the same year, Fossati left the training and was replaced by the English Martin Frederick Grice, coming from the Bo Bo's Band first and then from Boomerang. The new line-up, using the texts of Mauro La Luce, records Lo scemo and the village, a progressive jazz-rock album. In 1974 Delirium III was published - A journey through the archipelagos of the time, in which a real string section is used and in which Mimmo Di Martino tries his first time on an electric guitar.

In 1975 the multi-instrumentalist Rino Dimopoli enters the training in place of Martin Grice; the complex publishes the Lord 45 laps and then dissolve the same year.

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Jesahel  -  Delirium

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In 1972 the complex participates in the Sanremo Festival with the song Jesahel, a song that will become a hit: the album of which will sell tens of thousands of copies. While performing on the stage of the festival the band is accompanied by a group of friends dressed as hippies, who play guitars and sing in chorus; among them there are Oscar Prudente, Sara Borsarini (already an interpreter of some Battisti songs), Mario Lavezzi and Alberto Canepa (of the Theatrical Music Assembly).