Artist: AL DI MEOLA
Album: 5 ORIGINAL ALBUM CLASSICS (5CD BOX)

Year: 2010
Media type: CD

This excellent box set includes five albums, recorded between 1976 and 1981 and released on the Columbia label, by the great US guitarist / composer Al Di Meola: "Land Of The Midnight Sun", "Elegant Gypsy", "Casino", "Splendido Hotel" and "Electric Rendezvous". Al Di Meola is one of the most talented and versatile US musicians with a career spanning over four decades. His early Jazz-Rock Fusion recordings and later Jazz-World Fusion albums are always a display of great talent and imagination. These albums were recorded at the beginning of his solo career when Di Meola re-invented Fusion guitar virtuosity at a level previously unknown. These albums have lost absolutely nothing of their beauty and sophistication over the years. The albums are remastered and packaged in album replicas (mini-sleeves), housed in a cardboard box, and with the price tag of a double album this is a tremendous bargain as well. Essential!

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1 (Land Of The Midnight Sun):

1. The Wizard
2. Land Of The Midnight Sun
3. Sarabande From Violin Sonata In B Minor
4. Pictures Of The Sea
5. Morning Fire
6. Calmer Of The Tempests
7. From Ocean To The Clouds
8. Short Tales Of The Black Forest

Disc 2 (Elegant Gypsy):

1. Flight Over Rio
2. Midnight Tango
3. Mediterranean Sundance
4. Race With The Devil On Spanish Highway
5. Lady Of Rome Sister Of Brazil
6. Elegant Gypsy

Disc 3 (Casino):

1. Egyptian Danza
2. Chasin' The Voodoo
3. Dark Eye Tango
4. Senor Mouse
5. Fantasia Suite For Two Guitars
6. Casino

Disc 4 (Splendido Hotel):

1. Alien Chase On Arabian Desert
2. Silent Story In Her Eyes
3. Roller Jubilee
4. Two To Tango
5. Al Di's Dream Theme
6. Dinner Music Of The Gods
7. Splendido Sundance
8. I Can Tell
9. Spanish Eyes
10. Isfahan
11. Bianca's Midnight Lullaby

Disc 5 (Electric Rendezvous):

1. God Bird Change
2. Electric Rendezvous
3. Passion Grace And Fire
4. Cruisin'
5. Black Cat Shuffle
6. Ritmo De La Noche
7. Somalia
8. Jewel Inside A Dream