PASSION NIGHT

1 Original 1987 Version 2 Miro Smooth Jazz Radio Edit 3 - Julyo Remix Disco Segreta teams up again with Miro (b. Mario Baldoni) in the re-release of his 1970s-80s productions, after the italo-disco burner Stranamore by Brina (DS M 002) and the tropifrutti balearic italo-house smasher Tobago by Pat & Pats (DS M 006), we are back introducing to italo-disco connoisseurs a truly atomic jam ! šPassion Night› was originally written by Miro in 1985. Story goes that envisioning a release by 1987, Miro teamed up with legendary south-african sound engineer Allan Goldberg, in light of their previous Vedette Records disco-infused collaboration for the šSlangš studio project and the šReal Life Games› LP. The team featured also track co-writer Gregorio Puccio, ready to unleash the synths (Roland JD800 + D50, Yamaha DX7, Oberheim 12, Prophet 5), along with two young vocalists, Giulia Fasolino and Silver Pozzoli, later to become household names for the italo-disco heads. As a special feature on the track, Miro brought in the studio contribution of the top italian jazz contralto saxophone virtuoso of the era, Massimo Urbani. In September 1987 a session at Pomodoro Studio had the track recorded on a 24 tracks tape, where has been sitting unreleased for 35 years, until now ! Within its cross-genre blend of synth-pop, italo-disco and jazz, šPassion Night› is an outstanding musical time capsule, a picture-perfect vivid snapshot of year 1987, with the additional historical value as a document itself: it™s the only strictly non-jazz project in Massimo Urbani™s repertoire, in a revelatory performance shedding a light over an unusual facet of Urbani™s versatile talent, regardless of boundaries, a few years before his untimely passing. Three years in the making for this first-ever release, so that we could bring you šPassion Night› in its original 1987 version from the actual multitrack master, with our usual respectful treatment, plus three remixes: the balearic infused šMiro Smooth Jazz Remix› and a remix by highly acclaimed musician and producer Giulio d™Agostino aka Julyo, who can claim a plethora of collaborations for artists as diverse as Aphex Twin, Goldie, and Michael Brecker.