Music from Italy

Parbleu is a five-piece from Naples led by Andres Balbucea and Andrea De Fazio, and this single is the first look at the music they have been working on for several years, a Mediterranean dance music built on equatorial grooves. Elegua is named after…

Enzo Scoppa has been playing tenor saxophone on the Roman scene since the late 1950s, and since 1958 he has shared the front line with trumpeter Cicci Santucci: next to the Basso-Valdambrini sextet, the Santucci-Scoppa quintet is the longest-running …

The 2019 album by Celeste, the Sanremo group revived by Ciro Perrino more than forty years after its 1976 debut: pastoral, Mellotron-rich Italian prog with flutes, cello and saxophones, with a bonus track for Japan.

The only album by the Florentine band Campo di Marte, released by United Artists in 1973: a seven-part suite where heavy electric guitar meets flute, French horn and Mellotron, a lesser known high point of Italian prog.

The only album by the Rome band Murple, released on BASF in 1974: a two-part concept suite about a penguin travelling from the pole to a zoo, keyboard-led Italian prog with four bonus tracks including a 1973 live recording.

The 1974 debut by Biglietto per l'Inferno from Lecco, issued by Trident: dark, hard-hitting Italian prog with two keyboard players, flute and the theatrical voice of Claudio Canali, among the most sought-after records of the genre.

The only album by the Milan group Maxophone, released by Produttori Associati in 1975: Italian symphonic prog where rock band, horns, harp and strings meet jazz and classical writing, with the two songs of the later single as bonus.

Morricone's 1972 score for Nino Zanchin's film, from the original mono masters: a love theme sung by Edda Dell'Orso and psychedelic harp pieces with echo, back on CD after twenty years.

The final recordings of Antonio Infantino, made months before his death in 2018. Twenty-one tracks captured live, with no overdubs or post-production: voice, drum and the circling pulse of Lucanian tarantism, from the Beat poet who rebuilt the trance…

Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Pasquale Festa Campanile's road thriller with Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry and David Hess, with Edda Dell'Orso and I Gladrags: first reissue since the 500-copy original, restored from the master tapes, in a digipack.

First vinyl reissue of Morricone's score for Henri Verneuil's 1971 heist film with Belmondo and Omar Sharif: crime grooves, lounge jazz and Edda Dell'Orso's voice under Bruno Nicolai's baton, plus two rare Astrud Gilberto sides.

Very rare 1981 cassette compilation with visual inserts released by Trax in 1981 with contributions by Bladder Flask and by M.B., M.A. Phillips, Spirocheta Pergoli, Vittore Baroni and Those Little Aliens among others. Complete with all inserts

Goblin's score for George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, released for the first time under the film's original title: New York Comic Con 20th anniversary edition on black vinyl with new artwork, limited to 750 copies.

1986 album on Soul Note of lovely contemporary jazz for big band featuring Gianluigi Trovesi and Franco Ambrosetti among others.

1987 album on Soul Note of lovely contemporary jazz for big band featuring Gianluigi Trovesi, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Bill Evans among others.

Sole edition of the excellent 1987 album on Splasc(h) of multi-phonic solo sax and flute. Never re-issued on either LP or CD. With insert.

Obscure and sole album by Dino Mariani's free/avant-garde big band with homages to Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, released by Bull Records in 1983. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

1984 album on Soul Note by important and pioneering Italian third stream composer for piano, bass and percussion trio. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original and sole edition on PDU of solo music for piano and trumpet by the seminal Italian jazz musician. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Sole edition of the 1988 album on Splasc(h) of contemporary jazz by the Italian septet led by Alfonso Riccò and Romolo Grande. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.