Goblin band

Goblin is the name of an Italian progressive rock group, best known for soundtracks, especially films of Dario Argento.

The ’70s

The group has been created by the Goblin’s Claudio Simonetti and Massimo Morante. In 1973, Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante with record some demos in the studio of Simonetti the EUR during his period of military service. Also in 1973, and Claudius Maximus, with the ‘producer friend Giancarlo Sorbello, leave for London where he contacted the engineer / producer Eddie Offord, already famous for having recorded several albums of Yes, Gentle Giant and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, who agree, after listening to their demo, to produce their album. In 1974, with Fabio Pignatelli, on bass, and Carlo Bordini, on drums, forming the Group of OLIVER and return to London where he recorded new demo, with the addition of American singer Clive Haynes, known months before in a London subway station , and where to record new demos while playing some concerts in British schools. Eddie Offord part on tour with Yes and no longer has time to follow and produce the group, and then the band, disappointed, returned to Italy, but thanks to Claudio’s father, Enrico Simonetti, get a contract with the Cinevox Record. While recording the album, Carlo Bixio, director and producer of Cinevox, proposes to Dario Argento, who was looking for a rock band for his new film, by OLIVER listen to their work. After listening to their music Silver decides to record the soundtrack of their deep red which, initially had to arrange and perform the music of the famous jazz musician Giorgio Gaslini, who had already started working on the film with the orchestra. After some discussions with Silver, Gaslini leaves the film and Dario asks the students to complete the work by dialing the main pieces missing. With Walter Martino on drums (instead of Carlo Bordini), the group changed its name to “GOBLIN” and begins to record the soundtrack of the film composing the music major: Deep Red, Death Dies and Mad Puppet. Deep Red is one of the most popular and famous of the group.
In 1975, the Goblins get this soundtrack with the “gold” by selling, in the first year out, a million copies remained for fifty-two weeks in the charts and selling 45 rpm LPs (16 weeks in first place , a record never surpassed by any other Italian artist), not only in Italy but also in other European countries and especially in Japan.
It is said that the famous song of the arpeggio was born in the cellar two in the morning, from an idea by Fabio Pignatelli, only played with a folk guitar, Massimo Morante be corrected by 4 / 4 to 7 / 4, then the Goblins have made in the studio with the Minimoog, the harpsichord and the folk guitar. Fabio has also created the bass, the melody of the original Minimoog is Walter Martin (son of the famous pianist Bruno Martino), while the engraved in 3 / 4 and the whole sequence is the organ dell’Incisa Claudio Simonetti; in back of the 45 laps, Death Dies, drums and keyboards do not sound, respectively, Walter Martin and Claudio Simonetti, but, again respectively, Marangolo Augustine, then with the Goblin permanent in place of Martin, and his brother Antonio as Marangolo guest on some discs. The following year (1976) Goblin realize Roller, whose songs were not originally composed as a film music, the same were subsequently used as the soundtrack of the film by George A. Romero Wampyr 1977. The training at the time of Roller was as follows: Maurizio Guarini (Fender Rhodes electric piano, Moog, Clarino, Augustine Marangolo (Drums & Percussion), Massimo Morante (Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Fabio Pignatelli (Gibson Ripper Bass Guitar), Claudio Simonetti (Hohner Clavinet and planets, Logan and Elka “Keyboard Violin”, Hammond organ, electric piano and acoustic and Minimoog). The record, however, did not have the success hoped for. The group then comes back on the road to composing soundtracks and, although devoid of Mauritius Guarini, who has since left the band, makes Suspiria in 1977, the soundtrack of the eponymous film by Dario Argento, certainly the most experimental album, perhaps the most inspired of the Goblin soundtrack, an avant-garde itself.
In 1978, the group realizes The Fantastic Voyage of Bagarozzi Mark, a progressive concept album on the topic of drugs and first sung by the band. The album, although it is among the most successful of their career, does not get the deserved success and sales are very low and only reveal the year is reassessed by critics and audiences becoming a true cult status, earning in 2001 a reissue on CD complete with a video track that contains an exclusive interview with the band made by colleagues (and fans declared) Luke Cirillo and Maurizio Mansueti.
Also in 1978, after returning to training by Maurizio Guarini and the creation of the soundtrack of “Dawn of the Dead / Dawn of the Dead” Romero (with Suspiria and Deep Red, one of the best-selling albums in the world of Goblins), Morante leavesthe band to start a career as a singer in the production of Renato Zero. Log in formation Carlo Pennisi, cousin of the brothers Marangolo, former guitarist of Flea on the Honey, Flea, Etna, Libra (just Marangolo with the brothers had fought in the first three bands and, with only Augustine, will feed three years in New Perigeelater). After having fired two more soundtracks (I like do not like and antigangsters Team, both in 1979), the group also lost Simonetti, attracted by the possibility of producing two lucky dance album with Easy Going and Vivien Vee and to realize the very famous and danzatissimo Play jouer Claudio Cecchetto.

80s and 90s

Reduced to only Marangolo Pignatelli, the band sees the return of Guarini on keyboards with the occasional help of Carlo Pennisi and Roberto Puleo on guitars, releasing the soundtracks of three films: Patrick (1979), Contamination (1980), Dark Omega (1981).
In 1982, Fabio Pignatelli, in collaboration with Maurizio Guarini, built a new lineup of Goblin which sees Marco and Mauro on guitars Rinalduzzi Lusini voice.Marangolo Augustine, involved with the New Perigee, is replaced by drummer Derek Wilson, who also had been part of the Goblin for one week in 1975, soon after the departure of Walter Martin. The structure thus consists approves a pop album titled Flight matrix that collects the desired success.
Also in 1982, Dario Argento tries to reform the real Goblin to the soundtrack of Darkness, affecting Pignatelli, Simonetti and Morante (Marangolo is still unavailable due to the link with the New Perigee). However, the concomitant release of Flight, preventing the members to bear the historic name. So the soundtrack of the movie comes out (interesting mix of dance, electronic and progressive with extensive use of the vocoder) on behalf Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante (Walter Martin also participates on percussion only, without being credited).
Flight wrecked the project, the group reduced to only Pignatelli, Guarini, with the collaboration of Walter Martin and Antonio Marangolo on sax, published in 1983 the soundtrack of the film Night. Subsequently, Simonetti, and Pignatelli, like Goblin, compose some songs for the movie Phenomena Argento’s Phenomena, even if the song, erroneously attributed to the Goblin record is written and presented only by Simonetti and Pignatelli in 1989, composed the music for The Church by Michele Soavi. The widespread use of technology, does not affect the quality of the work, although the battery is replaced by a drum programming often too ostentatious.
Over the course of the ’90s, the group remains inactive. However, many interesting record releases (including a compilation of mostly unreleased material and a beautiful live of 1978, the only far left), keep up the interest of many fans to the group. The band’s repertoire also is proposed in the study by Simonetti and only live in Key Pià very hard, by the daemon, which the same band Simonetti has been a leader since the late 90s, and that, in the very first incarnation , is represented by Nicola Di Stasi, former guitarist of the books (which had served Walter Martin, Carlo Pennisi and Maurizio Guarini) later replaced by NBruno Previtali.

The reunion of the 2000 and subsequent projects

In 2000, the formation of Deep Purple (Claudio Simonetti, Marangolo Augustine, Massimo Morante and Fabio Pignatelli), meets unexpectedly. The excuse comes from the soundtrack of the new film by Dario Argento, I did not sleep, the Panel concludes that controversy and conflict between irreconcilable. Although the work of high artistic level, the four melt for the umpteenth time. Morante Pignatelli and Marangolo communicate the intention to continue and begin to develop the new songs.
The first monograph in 2005 and the only authorized by the group, titled Goblin: the music, the fear, the phenomenon, written by journalist Giovanni Aloisio with the support of Morante and Pignatelli. In 2007 comes the official biography of Claudio Simonetti written by Gabrielle Lucantonio using the same Simonetti, entitled Deep Rock, Deep Red from the Third Mother. In 2011 released “Goblin seven notes in red” by Fabio Capuzzo which presents the history of the group, unpublished interviews and hard-filmography.
In February 2006 it published a BackToTHe Goblin2005 training that aligns Maurizio Guarini, Marangolo Augustine, Massimo Morante and Fabio Pignatelli.The last two are the main architects of this new incarnation of Goblin, Claudio Simonetti, however, lacking that, in a climate of conflict with others, decided to devote himself to his daemon. The group publishes a very impressive drive, self-produced, but can not bear the name Goblin, whose use it, since 2001, the four components together historians (Marangolo, Simonetti, Morante and Pignatelli).The group’s name (and title), is therefore Back To The Goblin. In 2009, after 32 years of absence from the stage, the Back to the Goblin return to perform live for a handful of concerts in Europe with the added support of a musician, keyboardist Aidan Zammit maltese. On 16 December 2009, surprisingly, the group announced its dissolution, due, once again, to incurable internal strife.
In 2010, Massimo Morante, Maurizio Guarini and Claudio Simonetti, form the New Goblin, with the addition of two components of the daemons: Titta Tani on drums and bass Bruno Previtali. With the new lineup, the five hold some concerts in Italy and abroad. They are currently recording a new album that contains 7 classic songs rearranged by the new formation (Deep Red, Suspiria, Phenomena, Roller, I’m not sleepy, and Rock Sound and Darkness) and six previously unreleased tracks. Also will be released a DVD Live, recorded during the band concert held February 18th at Alpheus in Rome, before a large audience and devoted.
In early 2011, Fabio Pignatelli and Agostino Marangolo also organize a training alternative Goblin, Goblin renamed World first, then, definitely, Goblin Rebirth.Next to them, playing the veteran Aidan Zammit (already in Back to the Goblin), keyboardist and guitarist Danilo Cherni Giacomo Anselmi. The group debuted live April 22, 2011, at the Crossroads, a place that is located on the outskirts of Rome, in front of an audience, even in this case, large and enthusiastic. In this context, Augustine Marangolo announced that the evening would be immortalized on disc. After the concert, finally, to the many fans who surrounded him, Fabio Pignatelli stated its intention to publish a studio album made up of only unpublished.

Past Goblin incarnations

1975 – Cherry Five

Massimo Morante – guitars

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Tony Tartarini – vocals

Carlo Bordini – drums percussions

1975 – Reale Impero Britannico

Massimo Morante – guitars

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Tony Tartarini – vocals

Walter Martino – drums, percussions

1975 – Profondo rosso/Deep Red

Massimo Morante – Guitars

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Walter Martino – drums, percussions

1975-1977 Roller/Suspiria

Massimo Morante – guitars

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Agostino Marangolo – drums

Maurizio Guarini – keyboards

1978 – Il Fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark

Massimo Morante – guitars, vocals

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Agostino Marangolo – drums, percussions

1978 – Zombi/Dawn of the dead

Massimo Morante – guitars, vocals

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Agostino Marangolo – drums, percussions

Antonio Marangolo – sax on “Zombi sexy” and “Oblio”

Tino Fornai – violin on “Tirassegno”

1979 – Squadra Antigangsters – Amo non amo

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, acoustic guitar

Agostino Marangolo – drums, percussions

Carlo Pennisi – guitars

Antonio Marangolo – sax

1979-1981 – Patrick – Contamination – Buio Omega

Maurizio Guarini – keyboards

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, acoustic guitar

Agostino Marangolo – drums, percussions

Carlo Pennisi – guitars (Patrick and Buio Omega)

Roberto Puleo – guitars (Contamination)

Antonio Marangolo – saxophone (Contamination)

1982 – Volo

Marco Rinalduzzi – guitars

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Derek Wilson – drums

Maurizio Guarini – keyboards

Mauro Lusini – voce

Antonio Marangolo – saxophone

1982 – Tenebre (as Simonetti/Pignatelli/Morante)

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, drum programming

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards, drum programming

Massimo Morante – guitars

Walter Martino – percussions

1983 – Notturno

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, guitars

Maurizio Guarini – keyboards

Walter Martino – drums

Antonio Marangolo – sax

1985 – Phenomena

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, drum programming

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards, drum programming

1989 – La Chiesa

Fabio Pignatelli – bass, keyboards, drum programming

2000 – Non Ho Sonno

Massimo Morante – guitars

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Agostino Marangolo – drums

Claudio Simonetti – keyboards

2005-2009 – Back To The Goblin

Massimo Morante – guitars

Fabio Pignatelli – bass

Agostino Marangolo – drums

Maurizio Guarini – keyboards

Aidan Zammit – keyborads (joined 2009)