Well ......as always.... i like unusual.....well i was not aware my musician friend ........ frankie grittani was owner of golden fleece records......it-Is a 70' thing ... record label ...... ...and....... i did not know ...... he had a few good singers on his label ......but i did not know frankie then ......i was in UK .....and he was in new york....he is a Julliard trained musician ........... making music ,.......but now i do .....it's a small world ......well he received an e-mail form another person who had heard of him ......also......... thank you frankie ....for letting me post the email .....but this is a small world .........and i have always said ......... your music should be in europe .....so hopefully who knows .....well hopefully something will come of this e mail .....also frankie grittani ....is owner of FG train industries ......which he is renowned for ..... building and making model railways ..... to an exact science ........ his replications of villages ....... and gas stations ..... and even made a replicas of the twin towers of new york .....he is known in the model railyway world ......he is a resident of pennsylvania ......becasue the model railways business is better for him there .....i personally did not know how big the model railways business was until i met frankie through friend .......he can be found on facebook @FG train industries his FG train industries ......... also make a custom built cockpit for the premiere gamer ...... who wants to experience the ultimate driving experience in the world of gaming and FG industries will custom build this cockpit for your very own needs ........ but still to this day ...... frankie ........ is still owner of golden fleece records......... and maybe ....... he might re start his musical career...... and use golden fleece ....... after all he he has just finished an album ......so good luck frankie on these ventures mate ........
here is a picture of golden fleece recording studio
here is one of the custom built cockpit ...... for the ultimate gamer ........they can be built to suit .... FG train industries..... will build the cockpit for any game console................
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To: fgrittani@aol.com
Subject: THE MAN BEHIND GOLDEN FLEECEGood afternoon Mr. Grittani,Don’t know where to start without sounding too confusing, but I am a great fan. I just found out about your email address in a forum where you posted a comment and thought to myself that if I am lucky you might actually receive my email here. You just gotta be lucky sometimes and give things a shot, right?I was born in Berlin 1976, my mother is from Paris. Today I am a film maker and co-founder of production company Parasol Island in Germany. I have started as graphic designer and DOP, then went into advertising with my three best friends as partners. We shoot car commercials for german brands such as Porsche and Audi, do fashion films, special effects and a few documentaries that won us a great reputation. My wife is fashion designer, we live a very creative life and I hope to be able to pass my records on to our son one day.I bought my first Donna Feltman LP about 5 years ago now and was lucky enough to find another three copies on ebay, that I played so much that they became unplayable. That’s how much this album means to me. I am not kidding. It has a place ranking above the rest of my very, very deep collection.How did this start? In 1982, when I was 6, my french grandfather had sent me to buy his records across the street, as he wasn’t able to walk anymore. I had to pick up his orders of Amanda Lear, Cerrone and Jarre, haha. Sure you heard these names before - at least in Paris they were common. That was pretty when I first got infected with a passion for disco sound.Ever since the age of 15 I re-started to collect a lot of 1970s disco, made it my hobby next to film. First the obvious material by some of the standards like Moroder, Midney, Costandinos, John Davis, Montana and their likes. Later on I got interested in side projects and smaller attempts, didn’t want to scratch just on the surface anymore. Instead of looking any further within the US material I became interested in the European disco and funk - untapped material, really. I built up some knowledge on underground disco, that is so below the ground that you actually wouldn’t find any of it listed or discussed the web yet, most coming from Italy. I made smaller trips and found crazy material there, in Neaples and near Milan. Really, really weird stuff ;) bands that shouldn’t have recorded any of this ;) probably were under the impression that recording a disco track could make them instantly famous. I found a privately pressed 7“ record that sounds like a trashier version of Donna Feltman, very mysterious, see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K20eVlgc5XI Five years ago I win an auction on ebay for a record called MY GREATEST LOVE by Donna Marie Feltman. That record nailed everything I like - unknown territory, obscure concept, sexy voice, long tracks with great use of effects, synths and a few border tropical elements. I really became obsessed with this release and was sure the name Frank Grittano was nothing but a pseudo/cover of another name, as no other informations seemed to exist on this mysterious producer. Yesterday evening I walk back in home, my wife does sushi, kid in bed, I walk to the shelves where I store my thousands of records treasures and pull out Donna’s LP once more, while thinking to myself „I should look up this name again, see if I find anything on the man behind this music.And there we go, you must have written a comment not too long ago on a site called discomusic.com. Weirdly nobody there seems to get too excited, when you commented. Do they know Donna’s LP at all and what they are missing? I doubt it.In case you ever read this, I just want to let you know that on the other side of the planet there is a person, quite influential within a certain frame and scene, that knows almost everything there is to obscure unknown disco music, but never has had any music-related wish that was bigger than finding out who the person was behind Donna Feltman. I have so many questions and if you are still doing well, who knows, maybe I am allowed to find out more about you. Did you ever record anything else? Was Golden Fleece a label for just one release or did you record singles as I am obsessed with singles. To me you are nothing less than one of the true masters of this time. I could drown in the sounds of „over the rainbow“.kind regards,Charles Bals
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Charles Bals
Creative Director. Founder.Parasol Island GmbH | The Creative One Stop Shop | Neusser Straße 125 | 40219 Düsseldorf | GermanyManaging Directors: Charles Bals, Sebastian Druschel, Philip Hansen, Moritz von Schrötter | AG Düsseldorf - HRB 47736www.parasol-island.com | facebook.com/parasolisland | Parasol is a Member of the German Producers Alliance, Section Commercial Films
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