Great Italian Psychedelic Pop/Bubblegum, Pop-prog: The Underground Set (Nuova Idea) - The Underground Set 1970 (2012 Flawed Gems)

Behind the Underground Set name hid, for contractual reasons, the musicians from Nuova Idea. But surely the mastermind behind them was composer Gian Piero Reverberi, who was also the producer of Le Orme.

The Underground Set were often thought to be an English group, their first album having been issued in many European countries. It's interesting to notice that the group has been mentioned as English in Vernon Joynson's Tapestry of Delight book.

But in an interview with Paolo Siani on the Italian Musikbox magazine, the drummer was one of the first to reveal that the musicians playing on this band's two albums were in fact Nuova Idea, as Radio Records (the label on which the first album and the singles appeared) was distributed by their label Ariston at the time.

Mainly instrumental, with just some choral vocal parts, the albums are typical of a late 60's organ-led psychy pop sound and some tracks were used as TV film themes. (discogs.com)

It's hard for me to give the music a clear label, but I don't think that's important either. The album is just great imho. Pop, psychedelia, easy listening, prog, bubblegum, rock, all mixed together to a wonderful album that does homage to the early seventies. Viva Italia :-) Enjoy.(Frank)
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