Music from Italy

* Limited Edition: 100 numbered & signed copies | Hardcover Book + Exclusive 7" by Maurizio Bianchi * There are artists who document culture, and then there are artists who remake it in their own brutal image. Miguel Ángel Martín belongs firmly in the second category. For decades, this Spanish visual provocateur has been creating work that fuses aesthetic precision with social critique, building a singular universe where underground music, transgressive imagery, and razor-sharp graphic design co…

Slow Dances and Still Memories is the convergence of two musicians from distinct generations, Andrea Bellucci & Giulio Aldinucci — a languid waltz of fragmented memories and fleeting emotions, tied to moments in life, whether they arise from a dancefloor or a remote rural setting, from the hum of the night or the stillness of silence. Electronics here functions much like time itself: they blurs, distorts, reshapes, and subtly deceives memory… A choreography of ancient voices that intertwine in t…

**Edition of 200** Vittore Baroni and Daniele Ciullini met in the early 1980s in the then flourishing circuit of fanzines and mail art, starting a series of collaborations in small self-produced artistic publications and in the sound field, as in the case of “The Cop Killers”, a tape part of the TRAX multimedia project. In 2018, at the time of the vinyl reissue of this audio cassette, the idea of giving a sequel to the dystopian-science fiction "industrial opera" was born, but without anything c…

Veruschka, composed by Ennio Morricone and performed by Edda Dell'Orso, is a landmark in Italian soundtrack tradition. The album, first released on CD in 1995 with 14 tracks and later expanded, encapsulates lounge moods, ambient textures, and avant-garde fragments, capturing the ephemeral world of fashion and introspection with atmospheric precision. Double transparent blue vinyl edition of 500.

*36 copies limited edition* Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2021. Over 50 minutes of hypnotic ambient sounds, as bright as light refracting in waterfalls and mosaic stones! Professionally printed CDr inserted in a professionally printed cover.The cover is made of high quality embossed cardboard (250 grams thick) and is approximately 13x15 cm in size.The edition is accompanied by a postcard featuring a reworked collage by M.B.

*60 copies limited edition* The edition is handmade.The package consists of a black envelope of embossed cardboard (thickness 250 grams) that has two printed stickers in the center of both sides.The envelope is closed with two double black satin ribbons (one is black and one is red) that hold two metallic pendants, the one on front It's the clock hands, the one on back It's the symbol of the female gender.Inside the package there are:-CDr professionally printed in a black paper envelope-cover pr…

*42 copies limited edition* Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2010. Two longs pieces of magnetic minimalism made of loops of viola and hertzian waves. A work dedicated to Italian composer Giancinto Scelsi, father of microtonal music. Usual non-standard handmade packaging made with special ribbed paper, a cutout of a vinyl record, a metallic treble clef, and some inserts. CD-r is in vinyl-like black polycarbonate. The black-dye vinyl CD-R is contained in a handmade sleeve (approximately 13 x 13 c…

Tip, very special package! *36 copies limited edition* Reissue of a tape made by M.B. in 2013. Probably this is the most experimental side of Bianchi. It was recorded as a live improvisation in the stairs of a building in the Industrial Zone 1 in opera. Here M.B. is alone with his voice, tubular effects, mechanical percussions. The package is completely handmade with wire mesh, with an industrial sculpture made of corrugated pipe, tongs, screws and metal pieces, assembled to the wire mesh with e…

condition (record/sleeve): VG+ (occasional pops) / VG- (browning on bottom back cover + general wear) A stunning vocal tour-de-force! Cathy Berberian delivers an extraordinary performance of Luciano Berio's Recital I (For Cathy), a groundbreaking work blending theatrical recitation, operatic singing, and avant-garde vocal techniques. Accompanied by The London Sinfonietta, this 1972 recording captures one of the most innovative voice-and-ensemble pieces of the 20th century. Berberian's interpreti…

condition (record/sleeve): VG (record looks near mint but has surface noise throughout) / VG (general yellowing + creases on lamination partly peeling off)  Includes 4-page  LP-size insert. Essential Berio! This exceptional Wergo release features Cathy Berberian in a virtuosic performance of Circles (1960), Berio's mesmerizing setting of e.e. cummings poetry for female voice, harp, and two percussionists. The album also includes three of Berio's celebrated Sequenze – solo works that pushed instr…

condition (record/cover): EX/EX Spectacular Berio orchestral works! This RCA release presents three major compositions showcasing the Italian master's command of large-scale ensemble writing. Nones (1954), inspired by W.H. Auden's poem, is a powerful meditation for orchestra. Allelujah II (1958) transforms the voices and gestures of its predecessor into pure instrumental drama. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1973) displays Berio's characteristic blend of virtuosity, wit, and structur…

condition (record/cover): EX/VG+ (minimal ring wear on back + sticker on front). Berio conducting Berio – with Cathy Berberian! A definitive recording of two essential vocal works by the composer himself. Epifanie (1961-63) is a complex, multi-layered masterpiece for soprano and orchestra, weaving together texts by Proust, Joyce, Machado, Brecht, and Sanguineti in a kaleidoscopic meditation on memory and meaning. Folk Songs (1964) shows Berio's genius for transformation – eleven traditional song…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX (minimal cover wear). Includes 8-page silk-screened insert. Luciano Berio's Laborintus 2 (1965) is an epic sonic labyrinth created for the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. This extraordinary composition weaves together Dante's texts, fragments from T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and contemporary poetry by Edoardo Sanguineti into a stunning tapestry for voices, instruments, and tape. Featuring speaker, three female voices, eight actors, and ensemble, Laborintus 2 is…

condition (record/cover): M/EX- (small sticker removal residue on front cover otherwise NM) Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), pioneer of twelve-tone technique in Italy and one of the 20th century's most lyrical serialists, is presented here in a stunning collection of vocal and instrumental works. Dallapiccola's music combines rigorous dodecaphonic method with Italian melodic sensibility and profound humanism – particularly evident in his settings of texts addressing freedom, oppression, and human…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX Gatefold sleeve with 12-page LP-size booklet stapled in. No libretto. A masterpiece of 20th-century opera! Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner, 1944-48) stands as one of the most powerful and harrowing operatic works of the post-war era. Set during the Spanish Inquisition, this one-act drama explores themes of hope, torture, freedom, and ultimate despair with devastating psychological intensity. Dallapiccola employs twelve-tone technique with extraor…

condition (record/cover): EX/EX Gatefold sleeve with original inndersleeve. Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, founded in Rome in 1964, brought together leading contemporary composers including Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, and John Heineman in a radical collective exploration of structured improvisation. Musica Su Schemi (Music on Schemes) documents their unique approach – using graphic scores and conceptual frameworks to generate spontaneous yet rigorously org…

condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 4-page LP-size insert. This essential Deutsche Grammophon release presents two defining works by Luigi Nono (1924-1990), towering figure of post-war Italian modernism. .....sofferte onde serene... (1976), dedicated to Pollini and his wife Marilisa, is a haunting meditation for piano and magnetic tape, recorded at Munich's Herkulessaal. Inspired by the bells of Venice's Giudecca and marked by personal tragedy, the work achieves profound beauty through the d…

condition (record/cover): EX/EX. Luigi Nono's shattering Como una ola de fuerza y luz (1971-72) mourns Luciano Cruz, young leader of Chile's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), who died tragically at 27. This monumental work for soprano, piano, orchestra, and magnetic tape – dedicated "para vivir" (that he may live) – unleashes waves of orchestral violence, haunting tape interventions, and piercing vocal lines from texts by Argentine poet Julio Huasi. Maurizio Pollini's piano cuts through with ha…

condition (record/cover): M/EX Includes 8-page LP-size insert. Luigi Nono's Das atmende Klarsein (1980-83) inaugurates the composer's final creative phase – a profound turn toward fragility, spatial listening, and live electronics. Composed for bass flute, small choir, and live electronics in intense collaboration with flutist Roberto Fabbriciani at Freiburg's legendary Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung, this visionary work explores the very limits of perception. Texts drawn fr…

condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003), towering figure of Italian 20th-century composition and teacher of Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi e Cornelius Cardew, and Morricone, presents four exquisite works for guitar and chamber ensemble composed between 1959 and 1977. Suoni Notturni (1959), dedicated to painter Afro Basaldella, evokes phantasmagorical nocturnal atmospheres inspired by Basaldella's painting Notturno. Seconda Serenata-Trio (1962) blends guitar with harp and …