HARD-PROG GEM ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1972, THE HEYDAY OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK!

The Sicilians Flea debuted in 1971 under the name Flea on the Honey with an album strongly inspired by the British pop-psych scene. The band’s line-up includes the two brothers Agostino (drums) and Antonio Marangolo (vocals and keyboards), Carlo Pennisi (guitar, vocals) – all of them would later join the legendary horror score masters Goblin! – and Elio Volpini (bass, vocals, saxophone), who then played in L’Uovo di Colombo.

If the debut album can be considered at least partly raw and derivative, albeit well produced and structured, with “Topi o Uomini” Flea unleash their creativity in a beautiful album, which opens with the twenty-minute title-track, a song characterized by stunning robustness and consistency, that crosses over hard rock, blues and psychedelic territories with remarkable smoothness. The quartet’s inventiveness goes even further on the second side of the record, especially with the track “Sono un pesce” (I am a fish), distinguished by dreamy acoustic atmospheres mixed with jazz-tinged improvisations.

A unique and unrepeatable album, reissued on transparent red vinyl with faithful reproduction of the original artwork.