{"product_id":"piero-umiliani-fantasy-lp-black-vinyl","title":"Piero Umiliani - Fantasy (Black Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePiero Umiliani – Fantasy\u003c\/strong\u003e brings a long-lost chapter of the Italian composer’s catalogue to vinyl for the first time. Recorded in 1983 and originally intended as the fourth release on Telesound, the final library label founded by Umiliani, the album was left unreleased when illness abruptly interrupted his career. More than four decades later, two original quarter-inch stereo reels were discovered in the Sound Work Shop archive, allowing the complete project to be restored in the sequence and form its creator intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFantasy belongs to Umiliani’s late creative period, when his lifelong interest in melody, orchestration and cinematic atmosphere increasingly met analogue synthesis and electronic studio technique. Across eleven concise pieces, easy-listening elegance sits beside futuristic textures, supple rhythm programming and playful images of science, travel and nature. “Grand Canyon”, “Dune” and “Pianeta Spento” suggest landscapes both real and imagined, while “Roulette”, “Self-Made Man” and the title track show how naturally Umiliani could move between smooth sophistication and exploratory electronic colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree selections from these sessions had previously surfaced on the compilations Studio Umiliani and L’Uomo Elettronico, but the full album has never before been available. Heard as a complete work, its balance becomes clear: acoustic and electronic elements support one another rather than competing, and even the most experimental passages retain the directness and warmth that distinguished Umiliani from many of his contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Four Flies edition restores an essential missing piece of Italian library and electronic music history. It is both an archival discovery and a genuinely rewarding album in its own right, suited to collectors of soundtrack music, cosmic electronics, jazz-inflected library recordings and adventurous instrumental composition. Pressed as a black-vinyl LP and released on the centenary of Umiliani’s birth, Fantasy stands as an unintended final artistic testament from one of Italy’s most distinctive musical imaginations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts concise running time and clear two-part structure make the LP especially effective as a complete front-to-back listen, with each side offering a distinct mood while remaining part of the same imaginative journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Flies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58384422306166,"sku":"FLIES83","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/6450\/6005\/files\/FLIES83_dd759c40-4504-4cd9-a74b-6412c32738d9.jpg?v=1785696934","url":"https:\/\/www.stickyblacktarmac.com\/products\/piero-umiliani-fantasy-lp-black-vinyl","provider":"Sticky Black Tarmac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}