Music from Italy

1995 re-issue on Right Tempo of the great 1971 album by the dynamic Italian jazz and library music duo.

Telmegiddo, recorded in February 1983 at the Mectpyo Studio, was Maurizio Bianchi's last tape decomposition before his long hiatus. Mercium reissues it on CD, remastered: two parts of about 25 minutes.

Maurizio Bianchi with P.U.M.A. (Luca Valisi and Monica Calanni Rindina): ten pieces of drones, synths, field recordings and voice titled after THX 1138, Eraserhead, Stalker and other dystopian films. CDr, 100 copies.

Split in two doses: Uncodified (Corrado Altieri) and Mademoiselle Bistouri (Claudio Frassine) spank each other across two mini CDrs of noise and power electronics. 48 handmade copies, each with a coloured paddle.

Maurizio Bianchi's N.E.S.W. (Negativity-Enmity-Spurn-Worse), first issued by Lona Records in 2014, back on CDr: four long tracks that rotate the points of the compass, almost seventy minutes. 30 copies.

Maurizio Bianchi's Erthion, first issued by Young Girls Records in 2010, back on CDr: eight tracks titled after verses of the biblical Lamentations, about an hour, mastered by Pharmakustik. 30 copies with mini poster.

Maurizio Bianchi's March-Ex, first issued by Lona Records in 2009, back on CDr from BeTon Raw: five tracks, about an hour, with the voice of Yoko Ishimoto Kamimura and mastering by Siegmar Fricke. 30 copies.

Two sixteen-minute pieces of anenoises and choictronics recorded by Maurizio Bianchi as M.B. in 2017 at the Emoptyc studio in Opera, with artwork built on photos of anechoic chambers. 30 copies on BeTon Raw.

Maurizio Bianchi's Kathamenja, first issued by Lona Records in 2011, back on CDr from BeTon Raw: five tracks, close to seventy minutes, with the original preface printed in the package. 30 copies.

Sacher-Pelz, the 1979 solo project that preceded M.B., in a CDr reissue of L.E. Cherz Pas, first out on TIBProd. in 2010: four long pieces, about an hour of music. 30 copies in a black envelope.

Maurizio Bianchi's Carcimetrio, first issued by Simple Logic in 2006, back on CDr: four long pieces named after tumours and growths, over seventy minutes, mastered by Siegmar Fricke. 30 copies.

Eight years after the masterpiece Africa Oscura, Four Flies revisits Giuliano Sorgini’s afro-dark universe, unearthing and compiling another suite of previously unreleased music recorded by the Roman composer for television documentaries in the mid-1970s. Savana Selvaggia is a tribute to the continent that left the deepest mark on Sorgini’s creative trajectory. Traversing ancestral percussion, synthesizers, enigmatic themes, and mystical expanses almost like a spiritual journey, Savana Selvaggia…

*100 copies limited edition* Operating at the intersection of noise, power electronics, and extreme experimental music, Uncodified rejects conventional structures in favor of tension, texture, and raw sonic impact. The album unfolds as a confrontation with sound itself: distorted frequencies, abrasive atmospheres, mechanical pressure, and dense waves of electronic intensity combine to create an experience that is as physical as it is psychological. Rather than offering easy melodies or familiar …

Pino Minafra's Sud Ensemble in the studio in Milan, January 1995: trumpet, didgeridoo and ocarina with Carlo Actis Dato, Lauro Rossi and Giorgio Occhipinti, mixing southern Italian band music, free jazz and theatre.

Second album by Giuseppe Fantini as Zerogroove: eight short songs on obsessive drum-machine beats, dirty and minimal guitars, keyboards and synths, and a voice soaked in reverb. Retro-futurist pop from Italy, in a glass-mastered CD of 150 copies.

Special Bundle: Roberto Musci's The Loa Of Music (2LP, silver vinyl) and Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta's Urban And Tribal Portraits (LP, clear vinyl), both from Soave in new limited pressings of 200 copies each. Outside Italy, Roberto Musci's name circulated for decades among a small number of collectors and almost no one else. That changed in 2016, when Music From Memory issued Tower Of Silence, a double LP gathering three decades of his work: hunting horns, gongs and strings brought back fr…

Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta's Urban And Tribal Portraits, back in a new pressing from Soave: LP on clear vinyl, edition of 200 copies. At the beginning of the 1980s the composer Roberto Musci returned to Italy after a decade wandering the globe - drifting between Africa, India, and the Near and Far East, studying music, making field recordings, and collecting instruments. In 1984 this journey culminated in the release of his first album, The Loa Of Music, a sonic distillation and near per…

Italian experimental music is notoriously resistant to definition and location. If ever there was an object to encapsulate the spirit of that movement, it is the composer and musician Roberto Musci’s debut album from 1984 - The Loa Of Music. Recorded after a decade traveling the world - drifting between African, Indian, and the Near & Far East - studying music, making field recordings, and collecting instruments, not only is it a perfect culmination of such an experience, but a lens into the rig…

Milan, January 1973. Enrico Rava's second record as a leader, with John Abercrombie on guitar, Bruce Johnson on bass and Chip White on drums, released by MPS/BASF. Rava has called it his breakthrough: the album that got Manfred Eicher's attention. Seven tracks, from Trial N. 5 to the Don Cherry tribute Cheerin' Cherry.

1967, SABA. Tony Scott, the clarinettist of Music for Zen Meditation, with Bubi Chen's Indonesian All Stars: Jack Lesmana on guitar, Marjono on saxophone, gamelan gongs under the rhythm section. Jazz standards and Indonesian songs, with Summertime and Djanger Bali. One of the first Jazz Meets records.