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The legendary unreleased album from one of the very first Italian punk bands is finally released! An album of 1978 Germs-inspired raw hymns by this band from Rome.

For those who know the story of the first national punk, Trancefusion is a Roman group. True, but in part, given that the core of the band was formed in Milan in 1977, with the rhythm section made up of the Bianco brothers – Fabiano known as “Master”, drums and vocals; Chris, bass – and guitarist and singer Steve Osella, all three students at the American School of Milan. Noticed by Maurizio Arcieri of Chrisma not yet Krisma, they were invited to perform at the Out-Off club on 28 July, shortly before expanding the staff with the arrival of a tenured singer whose surname no one remembers, a certain Bruno, and the entry of Klaus del Medico to replace Osella. After just a couple of concerts, at the Idroscalo and in an occupied theater, in February 1978 the events of life led to the transfer of the Bianco family to the capital. Having made contact with the local underground scene, the brothers thus prepared a new formation with Vittorio Tedesco Zammarano on vocals and Lucio Cillis on guitar; the live debut in Rome took place at a hippy gathering and the first important release – for which, who knows why, the boys decided to present themselves as Brats – was on April 26 at the Piper, in an evening that saw two other city groups in the cast (Yogurt and Elektroshock) and the British band Hunters. From then on, Trancefusion made their way into the alternative circuit. They even had a recording session at the legendary RCA studios in Via Tiburtina with Marcello Todaro of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso at the mixer, but unfortunately the tapes were lost.

The material on this record, all dated 1978, includes twelve of the fourteen songs immortalized in a small studio near the Lungotevere Flaminio, before the band set up its personal hideout in Via degli zingari; the two missing from the appeal, because deteriorated, were however found in the aforementioned live tape and taken from there, with the addition of two particularly significant “duplicates”. In short, the Trancefusion repertoire is almost entirely documented in these grooves.