Cramps , the label of total music, publishing his first works in
1973: "Arbeit macht frei" of the area and "John Cage" by John Cage (music
of silence), two seemingly antithetical works, but both
revolutionary in the field of musical art.
If, on the one hand, the area turn to the formal research, expressive and
communicate the social message, the other goes to John Cage
sound research as the relative importance of chance and time.
charismatic figure of its founder, Gianni Sassi, remained in the memory
all after the untimely death has the merit to sense the change
and the need to travel, art, unexplored areas of the interior,
stimulate the reactions of the mind with unusual messages and proposals.

The musical band whose objective was to unite the past and the present (cf.'AVANt-garde' and 'TRAdition'). Their aim was subvert the exercise of classification and offer free, universal music. An experience completely different from any other in the world of progressive music, in which rock was proposed with classical arrangements or, inversely, classical themes were presented as if they were rock music.
Its original founders are: Alfredo Tisocco - Donella Del Monaco - Giorgio Bisotto