01	Fede, Speranza, Carita						10:54
	02	Il Prete E Il Pescatore						11:09
	03	C'e Chi Non Ha						06:35
	04	Sinfonia Per Un Re						07:59
	05	Sfogo						03:39

JET [Italy]

Fede, Speranza, Carita (72), a few singles

The LP has religious lyrics with interesting music. It has an English sound with italian melodies. The 7"s are more commercial.

J.E.T. - "Fede, Speranza, Carita" (1972) Excellent Italian heavy progressive. The album opens with the title-track. VERY powerful track that combines great Hammond-work with thundering guitar-riffs. And there's still lot of timechanges, different themes and all the other stuff necessary to make a progressive rock fan satisfied! Great track. "Il Prete E Il Pescatore" is another killer track with great vocal-harmonies and aggressive guitar playing along with the Hammond and some synths. The second part of the album is not of the same class, but still good. "C'e Chi Non Ha" is a nice acoustic track, but a little bit repetitive. "Sinfonia Per Un Re" is probably the best track on side two. It reminds me in fact a little bit of Semiramis. But overall, this is a great album, and you'll eat it up if you like other Italian bands like Biglietto Per'L Inferno, Semiramis and Eneide.



JET

Carlo Marrale (guitar, vocals)
Piero Cassano (keyboards)
Aldo Stellita (bass, vocals)
Pucci Cochis (drums)


Their name is very popular among italian music collectors because from their ashes came the commercial pop group Matia Bazar, and popular among prog collectors because of their LP rarity.
Jet (or J.E.T. as their name was usually written) were formed in Genova at the beginning of the 70's from a previous band of the same name that also included later members of another pop band, Ricchi e Poveri.

The group made their debut in 1971 at the radio contest "Un disco per l'estate" with their first single Vivere in te, and a second single a year later, Il segno della pace, was still in a melodic pop style.

Their first album, Fede speranza carita, also in 1972, derives from a radical turn in their musical style, to the then popular progressive rock, and is a very good album, with strong hard rock influences and falsetto vocals but with nice use of organ and a solid rhythm section, as in the long Sinfonia per un re that sometimes reminds of New Trolls' multivocal parts and Il prete e il peccatore. Unfortunately this has been their only venture into prog territory, and later singles took them back to a commercial rock not particularly memorable.

In 1974 the band added a female voice (Antonella Ruggiero) and a new drummer (Giancarlo Golzi from Museo Rosenbach) changing name to Matia Bazar and starting a very long and successful career that still lasts today.





LP
Fede speranza carita Durium (MS-A 77307) 1972 gatefold cutout cover with paste-on shaped cup
Album also reissued on CD by Vinyl Magic in 1997 (VM 057 - now deleted)


SINGLES (with picture sleeves - all tracks are not on the album except where noted)

Vivere in te
Uomo Durium (LDA 7711) 1971
Il segno della pace
Non la posso perdonare Durium (LDA 7758) 1972
Anikana-o
Guarda con i tuoi occhi Durium (LDA 7796) 1973
Gloria gloria
Sinfonia per un re Durium (LDA 7805) 1973 B-side from the album
Voodoo woman
Satan is waitin' Durium (LDA 7818) 1973





Fede speranza carita is a very rare album, and due to the small pressing and the delicate cover it's almost impossible to find mint copies. The gatefold cover has a cutout on the front for a thick glued-on shaped glass that's in the inner.
The album has also been reissued with the original cover design faithfully reproduced both in Japan (King K28P716) and Korea (Si-Wan SRML 2010 - only 1000 copies, later ones came with a single cover).
The korean issue also includes an extra track, the ballad Gloria gloria, from a 1973 single.

No counterfeits exist.