Sandro Brugnolini
Sandro Brugnolini launched his career playing in a band inspired by Miles Davis, Modern Jazz Gang and later developed a very prolific activity as a composer and performer, alone and in collaborations, under his name as well as under pseudonyms (such as Narassa). He would perform personally on jazz albums and/or tracks, being an alto sax player.
Sandro Brugnolini launched his career playing in a band inspired by Miles Davis, Modern Jazz Gang and later developed a very prolific activity as a composer and performer, alone and in collaborations, under his name as well as under pseudonyms (such as Narassa). He would perform personally on jazz albums and/or tracks, being an alto sax player.
Utopia
At long last, one of the great holy grails of Italian library music falls into our hands via Sonor Music Editions, Sandro Brugnolini's masterpiece, "Utopia", originally pressed in a tiny run by Gemelli in 1972, and heralded by collectors ever since as one of the greatest free-standing gestures in the entire genre. Threaded with deep lounge inspired grooves and jazzy funkiness that rest on the foundations of refined, avant-garde orchestration, it's drenched in the gauzy haze of '70s and almost im…
Easy Tempo Volume 11 (The Round Trip)
Big Tip! Easy Tempo has achieved, through time, the status of legendary label. The seminal first volume of the fortunate series was released in early 1996 and it was responsible for the now huge worldwide Italian Cinematic legacy. The names of Piero Umiliani, Piero Piccioni or Gianni Ferrio, where totally unknown by the most. All the way through the 90’s Easy Tempo has released 10 Volumes (no fillers only killers) and complete soundtracks, some never previously released and most edited directly …
L'Uomo dagli Occhiali a Specchio
Sandro Brugnolini's soundtrack to “L'Uomo dagli Occhiali a Specchio” is an unbeatable mix of dark psychedelic themes with heavy jazz drums, exotic percussions, obsessive piano bits, creepy harpsichord, free jazz to wah-drenched psychedelia, stiff funk, and abstract avant-gardism with atonal sounds and tonal passages. Originally issued in 1975, it has long remained one of the most coveted and sought after artifacts of the fertile soil surrounding the 1970’s Italian library and soundtracks. For ma…
Fantabulous
Roman saxophonist and clarinettist Sandro Brugnolini began his long recording career in the Junior Dixieland Gang in the early 1950s and came to greater prominence as chief composer in the Modern Jazz Gang, awarded best original composition for his ‘Arpo’ at Italy’s National Jazz Festival in 1958. Of the many film soundtracks he scored in the 60s, Fantabulous is the most legendary, Brugnolini bringing a jumble of mod jazz, psych-beat, freaky soul, and off-kilter pop into the mix, as an aural acc…
Psychedelic And Underground Music
* Edition of 300. Original-like version, on clear yellow vinyl * The Psycheground Group has been a completely mysterious band for a very long time, about whom nothing was known except the fact that they released an obscure LP in 1970, with a red front cover with a stylized drawing of a male face wearing a coloured bandana. Only in recent times it has finally been revealed that "Psychedelic and Underground Music" was played and recorded - and sung on very rare occasions - by musicians from Nuova …
Feelings
Be With Records present a reissue of Jay Richford and Gary Stevan's Feelings, originally released in 1974. Since its original release on Italian label Carosello in 1974, Richford and Stevan's Feelings has been described as the greatest library record ever released more than once. It's a tough funk, street jazz masterpiece coveted for many years by collectors of all musical genres. As the story goes, these were the pseudonyms adopted by Stefano Torossi and Giancarlo Gazzani who wrote the album bu…
Tower Of Power
"Freedom Power" (released in 1976 on Cometa too) is one of the most popular italian libraries of the '70s and contains compositions of Gabriele Ducros with the contributions of other masters and musicians like Sandro Brugnolini, Enrico Pieranunzi and Silvano Chimenti. "Tower Of Power" is the sequel to that lucky LP and includes unreleased material recorded during the same session of 1976, songs that, just like the ones on the first volume, are in the tradition of the jazz-funk soundtracks …
Beat Drammatico Underground Pop Elettronico 1973
Simply mindblowing, absolute tip! "A fantastic obscure record, whose tracks simply anticipate Techno and generally Electronic music of the early 70s, including Kraftwerk’s milestone Autobahn, Heldon and Lard Free. A mind-melting opera. While Kraftwerk released Ralph & Florian, and about one year before the releasing of the milestone Autobahn, maestros Sandro Brugnolini and Giorgio Carnini were already experimenting the deep sounds of analogue synthesizer ARP 2600.The set provides some blending F…
Abstract Forms
**300 copies** Abstract Forms is a selection of rare as yet unreleased in any physical format Sandro Brugnolini recordings from the late '80s and early '90s. The sixteen electronic tracks were produced for television background use or synchronization and, thanks to their great intensity and suspense, are still perfect to be scored in any number of thriller sequences, connecting smooth jazz memoirs filtered with machines overplayed on videogame sounding backgrounds. The majority of these experime…
Musica Per Commenti Sonori
Limited edition of 400 copies. Remastered from the original master tapes. An extraordinary Italian Library recording originally released on the Costanza output in 1974 – series “Musica Per Commenti Sonori” with a mispressed catalogue number. The unveiled twin session of legendary Stefano Torossi’s Feelings album featuring the same line-up and same composers of that lucky production including music and direction by Giancarlo Gazzani and compositions made by Sandro Brugnolini and Stefano Torossi h…
Diapositive
**100 copies, clear vinyl with printed slipcase and handwritten notes + Obi with liner notes and info, also alvailable on standard black vinyl** Beside the telluric year in pop music and culture, 1977 was still ranked as the future for Italian leftfield composers. Published by roman imprint Gemelli and credited to the elusive Massimo Guantini (none else than influential jazz player and composer Sandro Brugnolini), Diapositive is a fully cinematic journey in the realm of sci-fi and cool jazz. Ful…
Superground
**500 copies, never released before on any format!** And what if the infamous Underground and Overground albums had a third psychedelic chapter, still secret and unreleased until today? This Superground LP is sonically akin to the legendary pair for which composer Sandro Brugnolini will always shine worldwide, and ideally brings the trilogy to a close. Composed and recorded in two sessions between July 1969 and November 1970, the album echoes the shocking 1969's Charles Manson massacre, with tra…
Music Is My Life
A stunning set of 11 rare and unreleased-before cues of library gold; jazz, abstracted oddness, killer percussion tunes from the legendary Cometa library music vaults, made by names such as Sandro Brugnolini, Armando Trovaioli, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Zito, Alessandro Alessandroni, Massimo Guantini, Teimar, Berto Pisano, Giovanni Tommaso, Tito Schipa. These cues were all recorded in the late 1960s and in mid 1970s, and all have been used in the sound commentaries of newsreels, films, TV and docum…
Gli Arcangeli
Dagored present the first vinyl reissue of Sandro Brugnolini's Gli Arcangeli, originally released in 1964. Italian composer and alto sax player Alessandro Brugnolini -- composer behind 1970's Overground (CNPL 801LP) and L'Uomo Dagli Occhiali A Specchio (1975) -- launched his career playing in the super jazz band inspired by Miles Davis, The Modern Jazz Gang. Later, he became very prolific as a composer and performer under his own name, as well as under pseudonyms (such as Narassa). One of the fi…
Musica per Commenti Sonori
CD version. “Musica per commenti sonori” is a cult series within the diverse world of Italian library music. In the late sixties and seventies, the small record label Costanza Records has published several releases precisely focusing on ‘background music’, including works of great composers such as Peppino De Luca, Roberto Pregadio, Franco Micalizzi, Vito Thomas, Giancarlo Thomas, Puccio Roelens, Riccardo Luciani, and by the protagonists of this long-time due reissue: Sandro Brugnolini and Stefa…
Overground
An awesome instrumental record not far from the style of Blue Phantom and The Psycheground Group. Featuring psychedelic guitar work and a smooth library feel, Sandro Brugnolini released this LP on his own label and composed it along with Luigi Malatesta (aka the legendary Library maverick Peymont). It was recorded at Dirmaphon Studio (Rome) in March 1970. Among the musicians playing on the album were Silvano Chimenti (guitar), Giorgio Carnini (piano and organ) and future Perigeo bass playe…
Tensione Dinamica
* Out now * The niche occupied by libraries in the history of Italian music is full of amazing stories, such as Rotary Records’ one – actually one of the most interesting and peculiar. The label, created and led by renewed composer Amedeo Tommasi, released seven albums in just one year – between 1973 and 1974 – of material ranging from futuristic experimentations to classic and jazz (the latter being one of the biggest passions of Tommasi).
He wasn’t just the boss, but also played piano and elec…
Akriliko
LP edition. Terrific unpublished music of the 70's composed by: Killer keyboards, moogy/dark moments, and lots of other sweet electric touches – all served up in this rare album of sound library grooves from the legendary Cometa label, by the trio of Sandro Brugnolini, Alessandro Alessandroni and Teimar who worked for the legendary Italian studio outfit!
Viaggio Pop 1 & 2
** small repress available ** This double LP by Sandro Brugnolini under the pseudonym of Narassa, is a mix of funk and progressive rock with drums, electric guitar, organ and flute lead the way. Recorded in early 70’s there are clear references to those who at the time was the international rock and prog standard, but clearly all reread and interpreted in the Italian style that distinguished us, recorded as part of the huge wave of studio activity in Italy during the 60s and 70s! Given that th…
Underground
Few copies restocked - recorded in 1970 during the same period of "Overground", Uderground was recorded into 2 volumes (RT 104 and RT 16), both released in the same year in may and june at Dirmaphon studios, Roma. Together with Overground these records are really fascinating instrumental Free Jazzy/Psych Libraries, released with the auxiliary of historical Rai session musicians as guitarist Silvano Chimenti and organist Giorgio Carnini. This record collects all Underground' tracks in 1 LP.…