Le Sensazioni biography (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7956)
LE SENSAZIONI was a short-lived five-piece outfit that formed in Padua in 1978. Under the artistic direction of bassist Mauro Moschin they recorded and released their only album ''Doctor Faust Suite'' in 1981 before disbanding some time later. There's a marked dichotomy between prog rock and pop music on the two sides of the LP but the story behind the album's creation helps to explain the disparity in musical styles.
The album was dedicated to Italian painter Dario Serra; in fact, the organisers of an exhibition devoted to the artist's work asked LE SENSAZIONI to provide programme music to accompany the event. Serra had previously set up a theatre company and among his productions were several operas/musical theatres using marionettes. He based one of these puppet theatres on the tragicomedy ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus'' by Christopher Marlowe (a contemporary of Shakespeare) hence the reason for the Faust-inspired album by LE SENSAZIONI.
The exhibition organisers required a lengthy piece, dark in mood to reflect the subject matter of necromancy, Faust's pact with Lucifer and his final damnation. The end result is the album's symphonic title-suite, a mainly instrumental work where the story of magic and apparitions unfolds through a blending of serious and light moods dominated by keyboards and Margherita Garagnini's wavering violin lines.
The band was mainly influenced by the likes of PFM and BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO but this piece shows they had a genuine talent for dark progressive. The suite proved so successful that the band was offered the chance to record a full album but the producers wanted the recording completed within fifteen days and there was an additional requirement for it to have commercial appeal. As a consequence the second side is marred by the inclusion of several short pop tracks.
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