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Little known lost Italian band Luna, with ex-Osanna, from 1978 to 1981

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Very sweet music, similar to ssw materials presented here in the past from Ullu, Ping Pong (but less progressive), Gino D'Eliso, etc. I was very happy to find this album I'd never heard before, since I have such a weakness for that soft diatonic seventies sound (think legendary bands America, Bread).  

Starting with precursor Osanna which everyone here knows, you can see how complicated the story got after their 4th album Landscape of Life (1974):

Unfortunately things didn't go well between the group's members and the band came to a split during the Landscape of Life recording sessions, producing a sparse album...  

Danilo Rustici and Elio D'Anna, with drummer Enzo Vallicelli, went to England to form Uno, while remaining members Lino Vairetti and Massimo Guarino gave a new life to their old band Città Frontale, this time with new musicians and recorded an album in 1975 called El Tor.

Things were not so good for both the newly formed bands and Osanna reunited in 1977 with new members Enzo Petrone (that had played with Lino Vairetti in I Volti di Pietra and later with Moby Dick) and Fabrizio D'Angelo, but their album Suddance is very far from their best days. After the last split Danilo Rustici formed Luna.

I must admit I never listened to that Suddance one out of fear of disappointment.  So after that I gave up on the whole lot of them, which I shouldn't have.  Danilo Rustici was their guitarist, who died during covid sadly, and he founded Luna with 3 other guys not related to the others mentioned earlier.  The genre described is space rock, prog rock, but there is little of either, just a smidgen of progressiveness and mostly sweet late seventies uptempo pop sounds with the lush harmony vocals, deep arrangements, naive lyrics, etc.  Consider this one which is so hummable I just wanted to swirl around my dining room to my wife's shocked amusement, called Lou Jean:



The same band which was called Tunnel earlier in 1978 released a single, while Luna made 2 in the roughly the same time period.  All of these I included in the package for the band down below, they're worth hearing too though there is quite of disco that crept in for these.

Tunnel Lights has a lovely chorus:



Siliah Era Diversa from 1977:





source https://progressreview.blogspot.com/2026/04/little-known-lost-italian-band-luna.html
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