Franco Falsini had been in 1966 one of the founder members of the legendary power trio Noi Tre, that also featured a future member of Triade, Agostino Nobile and drummer Pino Pini. The group, equally influenced by the British models of the time, only released a single , Un posto dove, in 1966, after which Falsini left them, replaced by another future legend of the Italian progressive rock, Paolo Tofani, later with Area and also known as Electric Frankenstein.Relocatign in England, Falsini formed Flying with bassist Dave Anderson (later with Hawkwind and Amon Düül II) and a drummer whose name was Chris and came back to Italy with this group after a year in London, but the trio soon broke up. After another short-lived group, Le Madri Superiori, Falsini moved to the USA with the American wife and knew here drummer Keith Edwards, starting his experiments with multitrack recording and electronic instruments. Back in Italy, he had some solo concerts at the Space Electronic in Florence, then he had an offer for a recording deal by Polydor, that had received his demo tapes and formed Sensations' Fix, calling Edwards and former Campo di Marte Italo-American bass player Richard Ursillo.The record company published the demo recordings made by Falsini, releasing in 1974 a first album entitled Fragments of light and another with no title with the name of the group wrongly spelt (Sensation's Fix) only issued as a promo.In the same year, the first proper album by the group was issued, entitled Portable madness. The group was based in a farm near Florence, and had a krautrock-like attitude that leaves them as a unique band in the Italian prog field. Mainly an electronic band, based on keyboards and with very little use of voice, their albums were self-produced and recorded in the band's own studio, often with an amateurish sound quality.In 1975 Falsini also released a solo album, Cold nose, soundtrack to a short film called Naso freddo by Filippo Milani, producer of the group and designer of their albums' covers. This album contains long tracks based on keyboards and space guitars effects.Issued in 1976, with the entrance of keyboardist Stephen Head, the fourth album Finest finger is their first containing many vocal parts, a more accessible work than their previous ones. In the same direction their next LP, Boxes paradise.Falsin and Edwards went back to the USA, where another album, Vision's fugitives, was released, with no success by a small Californian label. The most American-sounding of their album, this also includes former Campo di Marte drummer Carlo Felice Marcovecchio (credited as Marco Marcovecchio) in a couple of tracks. Their last album in Italy was Flying tapes, released in 1978 and including reworkings of tracks from their earlier LP's.Changing name to Sheriff and now firmly based in Virgina, the group, composed by Falsini, Ursillo and Edwards, helped by second guitarist Frank Filfoyt, issued an US-only LP, with a much rock-inspired sound.When Ursillo left the band to go back to Italy, the group went on as a trio nearly all of 1979 with new bassist Gary Falwell, but only playing live once. The break-up followed, at the end of that year, when Falsini decided to move to New York to work as studio engineer. Line-up / Musicians Keith Edwards/drums,percussion Franco Falsini/guitars,synthesizers,vocals Richard Ursillo/bass Discography(Album) Portable Madness 1974
1.Smooth and round 2.Fullglast 3.Phase one and phase two 4.Underwater 5.The next place of nobody 6.Party day resistance 7.Leave my chemistry alone 8.Strange about the hands 9.Relative jump into water
