Aktuala is the first studio album by Italian world music pioneers Aktuala. It was released on Bla Bla records in 1972.

The inner sleeve of the record (depicted on Maoli's site below) features the large range of instruments used. Part of the point of the recording record was to ^[1] to make music that was "multicultural for the global vilalge and escape the global 12-note even temperament monoculture" (nella pluricultura del villaggio globale, affinch non si arrivi ad una monocultura, standardizzata global, dettata da un'unica scala temperata di 12 note.)

The musicians are^[2]:

• Walter Maioli: Arabian oboe, bamboo flute, bass flute, piccolo, metal flute in C, harmonica, reeds, whistles, djembe, percussion
• Daniele Cavallanti: soprano sax, tenor sax, clarinet
• Antonio Cerantola: 6-string acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, balalaika, zither, dulcimer, viola, violin
• Lino Capra Vaccina: Moroccan bongos, kobor , African drums, tabla, gong, xylophone, whistles, cymbals, musical bow, marimba, percussion
• Laura Maioli: tambura, percussion, whistles

The tracks are^[2]:

1. When The Light Began
2. Mammoth R.C.
3. Altamira
4. Sarah Ngwega
5. Alef s Dance
6. Dejanira

References

External links

• Page at italianprog.com
• Page at Prog archives

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