MATERIALI SONORI invited The Durutti Colurnnat for the first edition of the Greetings Festival in San Giovanni Valdarno in 1985, and build since then a steady relationship with the band.  It was precisely Vini Reilly that started the record series 'Greetings' (dedicating to the Belpaese tracks like 'Florence Sunset", "San Giovanni Dawn", 'For Friends In Italy"). Subsequently MATERIALI SONORI dedicated the first cover of the magazine Sonora to Reilly and Mitchell (including a previously unreleased track on the magazine's compact disc)

"Dry' is conceived as a new journey among Vini   inventions, through rarefied moods and subterranean streams of sound. The fifteen songs (lasting fifty-five minutes) have been  recorded in  Manchester in 1990, Vini sits in on guitar and piano, while Mitchell is on electronic and acoustic percussion, other instruments such as the clarinet (played by Zinnia Mitchell-Williams, Bruce's daughter), harmonica, viola and keyboards are also featured on the session. Here, once again, Durutti Column 's music could be defined as half-way between melancholy rock and 'progressive' New Age.

Tracklist:

Dry   7:43
Paradise Passage Road 2:16
Rope Around My Neck 3:57
Short 0:38
Boat People I 1:39
Boat People II 2:36
Our Lady (Version) 3:58
Grade 2 Duet 2:05
Octaves 3:04
Out Of The Blue 2:20
Otis 5:32
English Landscape Tradition 3:19
Finding The Sea 5:15
Bordeaux 6:06
The Beggar 4:46