Music from Italy

1976 album on Durium with mood jazz cover renditions of popular international tunes by the celebrated saxophone player with distinctive glamour cover.

1982 album on Durium with mood jazz cover renditions of popular international tunes by the celebrated saxophone player with distinctive glamour cover.

Japan-only 1972 album on Globe of easy-listening renditions for trumpet and lush orchestrations of pop and classical hits by the celebrated Italian trumpet player. Glamour cover, with obi.

Girolamo De Simone (Naples, 1964)—composer, pianist, music historian, proponent of "new music," and publisher of "new discourses" on music (through the magazine *KonSequenz*, established in 1994)—has recently released the CD *Liturgie*. The live reco…

*150 copies limited edition* “Of Grey Grounds” explores an intermediate state, neither alive nor dead, neither fully real nor entirely abstract. The “grey grounds” are conditions of existence shaped by erosion, repetition, and absence. The album move…

Before becoming recognized as an influential figure in ambient music, Gigi Masin was working for the Italian postal service. In 1986, he privately released Wind, his first album, choosing to share it mainly with friends and audiences at his intimate …

Cacciamali is an exploration of diegetic sound, folk chants and traditional rhythms and instrumentation building upon Milan based Rosso Polare’s last outing Campo Amaro and the subsequent departure of co-founder Anna Vezzosi from the group. Where the…

Violence! brings the electrifying legacy of maestro Franco Micalizzi to the spotlight once again. Based on the celebrated soundtrack for the cult movie Il Cinico, L’infame E Il Violento, this release captures the raw energy and kinetic rhythm that ma…

A really must-have for any Library Breaks DJ vinyl collector. This is Silvano  Chimenti and Romano Rizzati (alias Walter Rizzati) I Gres Vol.1, a sought-after  funky breaks Library monster featuring the noted track "Restless" made famous  by DJ Leacy…

*Warehouse find!* "D.N.A." is a contemporary jazz album recorded at Mondial Studios in Milan in December 1996 by two 'heavyweights' of Italian and international jazz music, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mario Rusca, the latter here feature with h…

If you don't know 'Clouds' then, quite naturally, you'd have to be living underground. The work of Venetian composer Gigi Masin went mostly ignored until Music From Memory's early-2010s reissue campaign pulled him and his ingenious ambient works out …

*Warehouse find!* In Italy, the genre of documentary film has represented a particularly fertile field for a critical review of the musical contribution to cinema at least since as early as the 1950s. The Italian public television RAI used to broadca…

Francesco Battiato was born on 23 March, 1945, in Jonia, a small town in the province of Catania. After attending the secondary school he moved to Milan to seek his fortune as a musician, but without any significant results during the first years. Gi…

*2026 repress* 1971’s ‘About Time’ was the Ping Pong debut album. Founded by Alan Taylor from The Casuals it was one of the first bands in Italy (based in Bologna) to be inspired by the British sound of the period moving between late ‘60 psychedelic …

Released on 6 panel digipak CD in a limited edition of 200 copies

*300 copies limited edition* Released on CD with 16 pages A5 booklet.

Earlier this year, Deutsche Grammophon announced and delivered one of the most exciting initiatives in recent memory: a brand-new audiophile vinyl reissue series dedicated to crucial avant-garde and experimental works from its own extensive catalog. …

Exclusive Bad Sector tape release for his live-gig at XXI Congresso Post Industriale.

The Commission marks forty years of Capricorni Pneumatici with an eerie convergence of sound and image. A new CD of liturgical trances and mechanical nightmares intersects with Tomislav Török Terek’s London installation, where ritual ambient, police …

Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the brilliant OST by Ennio Morricone for the romantic film La notte e il momento, directed in 1995 by Anna Maria Tatò with a screenplay by Anna Maria Tatò and Jean-Claude Carrière, photography by Giuseppe Rotu…