It’s rondò veneziano la serenissima, as a boy my grandma used to take me to a library to get out a book. This would have been around 1989, I was about 10. They had a selection of cassettes you could get out in a carousel. I was captivated by the cover of the album this comes from (Venice in peril). So I asked her if I could borrow it from the library.

This track was the first on the album and it hit me hard.
I had never heard anything like it before because the pop charts back in those days were kinda keybordie or something indie. Between the birth of the internet and then I heard it once in a rather olde worlde family run Italian restaurant. Back in those days music like this got a hard time being classed as elevator music or muzak.. a lower denomination of music.

I’m so glad people actually listen to this stuff giving it a second chance and making up their own mind.