Fabio Borgazzi – aka Fabio Fabor – played literally every known style of music, from
baroque to “satanic” electronic, in his library music albums released during his career which
lasted almost seven decades. Born in Milan in 1920, Fabor was one of the great artisans of
post-war Italian popular music. Author, arranger and conductor with a classical background,
he started writing songs (in the 1950’s and 1960’s) for popstars such as Nilla Pizzi, Johnny
Dorelli and Milva; he then turned to music for theatre, cinema and tv, to which he dedicated
the rest of his career. In 1981, when he released “Galassia M81”, Fabor was a veteran in the
scene of library music, both as an author and an editor. It was the so-called golden age for
the genre, just a moment before the advent of MIDI – which made everything easier, but
flatter too, putting an end to the “Italian Touch”. The tracks featured here (credited to the
fictional combo The Astral Dimension: Fabor together with his friend Antonio Arena) still have
a definite Seventies taste, reminding the wave of German kosmische musik (especially the
Darmstad school), but they also reflect the Moog-mania raging in pop music after the big
success of Walter/Wendy Carlos with the “Switched On” series. Avant-garde and kitsch hand
in hand, ambient for documentaries and background music for horoscopes… all in sequence,
with the only purpose of being used and generating royalties. Apparently there’s nothing
poetic here, but the deepest core of this music is full of substance and genius, mixing a
classical background with a futuristic twist – something that made so special a lot of the best
music written in Italy during the 20 th century.
TRACKLIST:
A1. GALASSIA M81 3:35
A2. NEBULOSA 2:45
A3. VIA LATTEA 3:10
A4. ANTARES 3:00
A5. MACCHIA SOLARE 2:46
A6. BETA 700 2:57
B1. STELLA NOVA 3:32
B2. VENERE 3:27
B3. ECLISSE 3:30
B4. SATURNO 2:56
B5. MARTE 3:15
B6. MONTE PALOMAR 3:00
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