Riz Ortolani
Non si sevizia un paperino
Transparent red vinyl format / 180 grams, limited edition numbered to 500 copies. The soundtrack for “Non si Sevizia un Paperino” (1972), composed by Riz Ortolani for Lucio Fulci’s giallo masterpiece, is a work of extraordinary intensity and contrast. Ortolani, a master at balancing melodic beauty with unsettling atmospheres, perfectly captures the essence of a film that blends mystery and violence with the innocence of a small Southern Italian village. The film, one of Lucio Fulci’s most acclai…
Addio Zio Tom
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered and expanded edition of Riz Ortolani’s famous score for the shocking and successful mondo movie Addio Zio Tom, directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi in 1971.
This epic re-creation of the atrocities of the American slave trade was both condemned as depraved exploitation and hailed as an unprecedented cry of black anguish and rage. The Detroit Chronicle hailed it as “a gra…
Confessione di un commissario di Polizia...
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a remastered and expanded edition of Riz Ortolani’s masterful score for the Damiano Damiani thriller Confessione Di Un Commissario Di Polizia Al Procuratore Della Repubblica (aka Confessions Of A Police Captain), starring Franco Nero and Martin Balsam. This was one of the first films about the Mafia in which the fight is hopeless because “the polyp’s feelers” reach everything and everybody. A police inspec…
Brutes And Savages
Quartet Records, in collaboration with the Riz Ortolani estate, presents the expanded vinyl edition of one of the titles most requested by maestro Ortolani’s fans: the bizarre 1978 mondo movie Brutes And Savages (aka Savana Selvaggia)
Written by Jenny Craven and directed by Arthur Davis, this belongs to the select group of mondos that became notorious not for their shocking content, but for their lack of understanding of the genre. Surviving in two different cuts (92 mins and 107 mins), Brutes A…
Una ragione per vivere e una per morire
**Limited edition of 250 copies.** Digitmovies is releasing the complete Ost by Riz Ortolani for the Spaghetti Western “A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die.” Riz Ortolani composed one of his best scores during his long career with this one, an epic symphonic score where a heroic main theme played by horns and orchestra follows the group of courageous men to their deaths. A western score, but one that's put together with a slightly different feel than usual – almost more straight dramatic at times,…
Si puo' essere piu' bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?
Previously unreleased complete edition for this explosive jazz-funk score by Italian maestro Riz Ortolani, written in 1973 for the poliziotteschi film, “Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?” (also known as “Mafia Junction”).Only two tracks from this soundtrack were ever released, and as a result is now an extremely rare and sought-after C.A.M. 7" - but that was enough to create the legend... Four Flies Records is honored to have been granted access to the original C.A.M. mas…