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Painters Winter
One of the iconic and enduring music leaders to emerge in the world over the last half century, William Parker continues to raise the bar higher.
Mandala
** Strictly limited to 500 copies ** Jazz In Britain presents Mandala by The Mike Taylor Quartet with extensive liner notes by Duncan Heining. Recorded live by Jon Hiiseman on Friday, 8th January 1965 at the Studio Club, Westcliff-On-Sea, Southend. Previously unheard. These are the only known live recordings of the The Mike Taylor Quartet.
Mike Taylor – pianoDave Tomlin – soprano saxTony Reeves – bassJon Hiseman – drums
Electronic Execution Vol. 1
Concived as a selection of jams of free form and linear electonic ideas, Electronic Execution pretends to dissolve (to execute) the prosaic world of images in invisible and ancestral soundscapes.RM is the last incarnation of Riccardo Mazza, important underground personality from regional scene of Veneto where our curator Nico Vascellari was born and raised. Mazza has been member of projects such as A Flower Kollapsed, Lago Morto, Orfanado e Lettera 22. His debut under his new moniker RM, Curren…
L'Oeuvre Electronique
Incredible 14xCD lavish box set, a 16+ hour compendium of the electronic music key works from one of the most important electronic composers of the 20th century complete with a 106 page book. Born between wars, Eliane Radigue’s musical journey began in the Paris studios of musique concrète OGs Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry during the 1950s and 60s, experimenting with magnetic tapes, honing her craft in sound construction. But it wasn’t until the 1970s when Eliane moved to New York City — bec…
W.h.e.a.d.
W.H.E.A.D. is the first solo vinyl effort for the Naples based sound artist Mimmo Napolitano. Over the course of the last 10 years he had developed an elaborate body of works where electroacoustic rumors interact with electric clangours and magnetic object presences, all reassembled and digested through his main instrument, a reel to reel machine. The result is a visceral language where the city of Naples plays a central role in the process, vivid and dramatic feeling of this composition breathe…
La Notte Dell'Ultimo Giorno / Processo Per Direttissima
Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents the premiere presentation of two previously unreleased Stelvio Cipriani groovy scores, both focused on dramas taking place in the Years of Lead (a period of social and political turmoil in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s). Adimaro Sala’s LA NOTTE La Notte Dell'Ultimo Giorno (1974) chronicles the making of a fictional thesis film entitled La Fiammata as director Beppe Banti (Tony Kendall) tries to realize his vision without com…
Images
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Handmade Films, is proud to present a remastered CD reissue of an early masterpiece from legendary composer John Williams (The Towering Inferno, The Cowboys, Jaws, E.T., The River) for Robert Altman’s 1972 psychological thriller-drama starring Susannah York. The film inspired one of Williams’ most fascinating and avant-garde scores. The composer based his ideas on two different musical styles: one more classical, almost childlike, the other experimental, ag…
Lisa And The Devil
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Mercury Music Publishing Ltd. and the Carlo Savina estate, is proud to present the worldwide premiere release of fan-favorite giallo score from Mario Bava’s cult movie Lisa And The Devil (1974), with an iconic score by Carlo Savina. Mario Bava’s Lisa And The Devil stars Telly Savallas along with Elke Sommer as the titular Lisa, who gets tangled in the web of a deranged family of noblemen who might be getting help from the devil himself. Bava’s movie actuall…
Vergogna Schifosi
Quartet Records and Carosello Edizioni Musicali present an expanded, completely remastered edition of Ennio Morricone’s cult score for Vergogna Schifosi (1969). Directed by Mauro Severino, the film is about a misstep from the past that comes back to haunt three young perpetrators from Milan with vengeance on its mind. Years after getting away with murder, they suddenly receive an incriminating photo, accompanied by a request for money. Despite their quick payment, they keep getting new messages…
Le Chat / Le Train
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Gruppo Sugar, presents the CD release of a Philippe Sarde and Pierre Granier-Deferre double-header: Le Chat and Le Train— both based upon Georges Simenon stories.Le Chat (1971) stars Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret as an old married couple whose miserable marriage is put to the test by a cat and the impending destruction of their home. Sarde’s music is anchored by the wistful ballad “Le Temps des souvenirs” performed by Jean Sablon as a memento of the happie…
Così Dolce... Così Perversa
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Sermi Film Edizioni Musicali and Sonor Music Editions, presents a remastered and expanded CD edition of Riz Ortolani’s erotic thriller score for Umberto Lenzi’s Così Dolce… Così Perversa. In 1969/1970, Umberto Lenzi helmed a trilogy of three giallo thrillers, all starring American-born actress Carroll Baker. The middle film of the trilogy, Così dolce… Così Perversa (aka So Sweet, So Perverse) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a man who escapes his icy marriag…
Il gatto a nove code
* 50th anniversary edition, completely rebuilt and mastered by Chris Malone from first-generation master tapes* The film is about a newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist who try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company’s top-secret experimental research projects; in doing so they become targets of the killer. Ennio Morricone can be considered the inventor of the giallo sound, as he was the inventor of the Spaghetti Western sound or the political-cinema so…
Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection (Book)
‘Adventures In Reality’ was a short-lived but much celebrated fanzine, published in the early Eighties that documented the burgeoning post-punk scene of Britain in a wry, witty and passionate way. ‘The Complete Collection’ gathers together all thirteen volumes of the ‘zine in an A4 book.
Library Music - Volume 1 (13CD Box)
* Edition of 400 copies. Black wooden box set, numbered. From the original master tapes. Includes a booklet. * Piero Umiliani is unquestionably one of the most consistent figures in terms of soundtrack music and library music worldwide. This precious 13CD Box is dedicated to the period of greatest maturity and artistic freedom which coincides with the creation of his personal studio: the Sound Work Shop. The 82 square meter room is elaborated with a particular acoustic treatment suitable for mul…
Sun Oddly Quiet
**200 copies** Composed and performed by João Pais Filipe. Recorded and mixed by José Arantes. Mastered by Chris Hardman. Design by Proto Thanks to: Burnt Friedman, Carolina Bagulho, Diogo Rapazote, Joaquim Durães, José Arantes, Maria Mendes, Renato Cruz Santos, Nelson Gomes, André Santos and Flur team. This record is dedicated to my Grandmother Maria de Lurdes Gomes
Seis Peças Sintetizadas
**120 copies** 2019 has been a tremendous year for Luís Fernandes, apart from his daily work as an Artistic Director of gnration and Semibreve Festival. He released his first solo album under his own name, Demora, on Lawrence English’s Room40 and had a song on the commemorative compilation of The Wire, The Wire Tapper 50. He also collaborated with Black Bombaim in the brilliant record W/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto and has worked on a new piece with his longtime collaborato…
Elemental Gestures
**Monograph about american Conceptual and Fluxus Artist Terry Fox (1943-2008) curated by Arnold Dreyblatt.** What is the common denominator between such different elements as the purring of cats, fishes, cigarette smoke, flour, water, yeast, and an artist’s own body? The answer is that they are all on Terry Fox’s “list of art ingredients” for his work. Elemental Gestures presents a comprehensive overview of this artist’s oeuvre and it offers fascinating and compelling insights into the multi-fac…
Samurai
Trading Places present a reissue of Samurai's self-titled album, originally released in 1971. In 1971 the group called WEB changed its name to Samurai and started working on their eponymous studio album released on the obscure Greenwich Gramophone label. Samurai is a great gem of early British progressive rock, and although it was clearly influenced by legendary groups such as King Crimson and Gentle Giant, it represented a unicum in the music panorama. Unfortunately, the group disbanded shortly…
Epiphanies I-VI
Derek Bailey’s guests for Company Week at London’s ICA in July 1982 were contemporary classical pianist Ursula Oppens, folk/jazz singer-turned-improviser Julie Tippetts and her partner pianist Keith Tippett, violinist/electronics wizard Philipp Wachsmann, guitarist Fred Frith, trombonist George Lewis, harpist Anne LeBaron, and from Japan free jazz bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa and sound artist Akio Suzuki. Altogether they performed the stunning extended improvisation Epiphany. In different, more i…
HS00 (Tape)
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Silea (TV) by Hampar Soum (duo comprised of Guido Modanese and Stefano Scattolin)