Picchio dal pozzo (album)

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| name = Picchio dal Pozzo

| type = Album

| artist = Picchio dal Pozzo

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| released = 1976

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| genre = Progressive rock, Italian progressive rock

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| label = Grog

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| next_title = Abbiamo tutti i suoi problemi

| next_year = 1980

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Picchio dal Pozzo is the debut album by the Italian progressive rock band Picchio dal Pozzo, released in 1976.

The album was released on vinyl in 1976 by Grog Records, a record label founded by Aldo De Scalzi, the band's leader. It is a work in its own right in the panorama of Italian progressive, similar in some ways to the style of groups of such so-called Canterbury scene bands as Soft Machine and Gong. Dominated by keyboards and horns, accompanying vocals characterized by the surreal lyrics and unusual vocal effects.{{cite web|url=http://classikrock.blogspot.it/2010/10/picchio-dal-pozzo-picchio-dal-pozzo.html|title=Picchio dal Pozzo: Picchio dal pozzo (1976)|first=John N.|last=Martin|website=classikrock.blogspot.it|accessdate=1 January 2018}}

The album is dedicated to Robert Wyatt[http://www.aldodimarco.it/pdp/pdpeng/storie/canterbury.html Canterbury] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521054401/http://www.aldodimarco.it/pdp/pdpeng/storie/canterbury.html |date=2008-05-21 }} on Picchio dal Pozzo's official site and the opening track "Merta" closely follows the melodic line of Wyatt's "Sea Song" from his 1974 album Rock Bottom.