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VERY TASTY BREAD

“We are doing music the way bakers are making bread. With our own hands, with all our ancient knowledge, working on it until it comes out the way we want.”
Franz Di Cioccio

One of the most groundbreaking progressive groups of the 1970s, PFM are still making music of a superb calibre today. Gathering in Milan’s White Studios during the pandemic, the musicians recorded I Dreamed Of Electric Sheep as a group, while guest artists including Ian Anderson and Steve Hackett provided their parts via file sharing. The isolation brought upon by the pandemic – and technology’s role in both heightening that isolation and bridging the gaps – is a central theme of the new album.

When drummer Franz Di Cioccio and four fellow musicians founded their group in

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