If The Free Design represents one of my most favorite bands subjectively speaking, then Osanna represents the objective side. I'd go so far to suggest that Palepoli might be my highest rated album - that I actually don't feel. It has all the trademarks of a classic brilliant Italian prog album - the turn-on-a-dime meter and thematic shifts, the never-know-what's-going-to-happen-next unpredictability. It's not particularly professional and captures the band at the height of their frenzied amateur vision. All things I adore. And yet I always hear it detached. I don't get involved with it in the same manner as a Balletto di Bronzo, Biglietto per L'Inferno, Museo Rosenbach, Semiramis, or Jumbo. But I really don't know why. I guess there's some parts here that sound some like 50s rock n' roll and a little bit of that Italian restaurant "Whats-a-matta-you, HAY!". I dunno - honestly it's a superb slice of Italian prog pie. My rating remains at almost the highest level (Gnosis 12), but not at the very top tier.
Ownership: LP: 1973 Fonit. Gatefold with lyric insert. Acquired online (2003).
CD: 2004 Arcangelo (Japan). Exact replicate of the original gatefold. Apparently all the reissues have additional music to the original LP. So I'll probably just hang onto this for now.
Former ownership: LP: 1980 Seven Seas. Gatefold. Acquired from a friend in Japan (1999)
LP: 1978 Fonit-Cetra. Single sleeve. Acquired in 1990.
1990 (first listen); 2/27/99; 2004; 6/19/22 (review / new entry)
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