Music from Italy

The third installment of the Italian Library Songbook series unveils a rare, previously unreleased instrumental by Italian library legend Giuliano Sorgini, “Awakening (Part I),” featuring his friend and frequent collaborator Alessandro Alessandroni on guitar. In this special Four Flies series, forward-thinking producers, songwriters and vocalists from today’s global scene put their spin on works from masters of Italian golden age film and library music, crafting fresh and groovy vocal tracks. Th…

Works by Luigi Nono for flute and live electronics from his 1980s collaboration with Roberto Fabbriciani, with Musiche per Manzù for tape (1969) and Fabbriciani's own tribute for piccolo, Omaggio a Luigi Nono.

After forty years, the enigmatic Italian collective Capricorni Pneumatici's lost opus, Über Artaud, finally emerges complete. Originally conceived in 1987 as an electronic sonorization of Antonin Artaud's censored 1947 radio work "Pour En finir avec le Jugement de Dieu", this mysterious project showcases masterful use of FM synthesis via the iconic Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, creating dark ritualistic soundscapes akin to Throbbing Gristle and Nurse With Wound.

2025 stock In one of his first forays into big budget Hollywood, Ennio Morricone handed in one of his weirdest, eeriest scores. From the beautiful to the absolutely demented, while still playing in the same sandbox. Once you get to the deranged Satanic prog rock of “Magic And Ecstasy,” it hits you: this is the craziest we’ve ever heard Morricone. And it’s amazing. “I like the first Exorcist, because of the Catholic guilt I have, and because it scared the hell out of me; but The Heretic surpasses…

*48 copies limited edition*Completely handmade packaging.The packaging is composed of a black embossed cardboard box (250 grams thick) measuring 9x11 cm.The box, which has a sticker on the front, is closed with a cord worked to reproduce a BDSM-style knot (wrist roll + slip not = impossible escape).A double black satin ribbon is knotted on the cord that holds two black metal shoes with high heels.Inside the box there are:- the cd-r contained in a black embossed cardboard envelope (250 grams thic…

*2025 Repress* A catalog such as Beat Records, with its roots in the '60s may have a difficult logistic. Beat Records changed many times head quarter up to moving to Via Filippo Nicolai 16 from the late '80s up to nowadays. Such a company catalog, sensibly grown during 55 years of life, was always needing more space and so, recently, the label decided to find a new place where to agglomerate various storages spread through Rome. What does all the above things have to do with They Call Him Trinit…

Tranquillity and lyricism. Italian Celeste expresses a fantastic sound world with well-chosen arrangements. The carefully woven compositions, reminiscent of an exquisite textile, symbolise the “quiet” sound of Italy. This timeless masterpiece has been remastered in 2024 for the first time in 14 years and is now available in an encore pressing! Paper jacket, SHM-CD, 1 bonus track.

Edition of 300 copies, white vinyl. In the sprawling catalog of Franco Battiato's remarkable career, certain artifacts remain tantalizingly out of reach—works that slip between the cracks of official discographies yet represent crucial moments in the evolution of one of Italy's most visionary artists. M.Elle Le Gladiator stands as one such treasure, released in 1975 as the final and most controversial work of Battiato's experimental period for the Bla Bla label, marking the end of what many cons…

Ennio Morricone's subversive 1970 masterpiece finally emerges in full stereo after 55 years. This restored edition of Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto reveals the composer's deliberately "imperfect" instrumentation—out-of-tune piano, mandolin, synthesizer—as radical social commentary. Essential archival triumph.

Edition of 400. In the twilight of the 1960s, as Italian cinema reached new creative heights, a parallel universe of musical experimentation was quietly flourishing in the studios of Rome and Milan. The production of soundtracks for both major and minor Italian films had given birth to another business venture - one that proved less profitable but infinitely more creative and liberated from client constraints: the composition of music libraries. Now, Musica Per Immagini presents the first reissu…

Holy Basil Records reissues Piero Umiliani’s “Il Ponte Dell’Asia”—a rare, remastered vinyl with original artwork. Celebrated for blending jazz, funk, and world music, this deluxe edition honors Umiliani’s visionary legacy.

Edition of 100. Eighth Tower Records and Interitvs Nvmen unite to resurrect one of the most vital documents from Italy's industrial underground. In the suffocating heat of 1981's experimental underground, Maurizio Bianchi unleashed Mectpyo Bakterium, a work so clinically disturbing and sonically corrosive that it stands among the most unsettling audio documents of the early industrial era. Now, over four decades later, this pivotal cassette transmission receives its first proper CD treatment thr…

2006 release ** "Static music, suspended by a thread of silence. Circular flowing audio structures. Archeology of sound. Mind expanding texture. A new fascinating operation of disassembly and restructure of sonic material by Maurizio Bianchi (the entire album The Testamentary Corridor), by incomparable japanese 'audio sculptor' Aube."

2005 release ** "A superb work of re-editing and re-composition of original material by Maurizio Bianchi, that saves the distinctly experimental aim of the music by the hystorical Italian artist, renewing it in surely less extreme and hard but equal new form, unquestionably catching and sure effectiveness."

2008 release ** "Maurizio Bianchi's second artistic season continues to be enriched with new releases, often the result of collaborations with other authors, as in the case of "Alienation", a work performed together with Claudio Rocchetti, a skilled audio manipulator with an evident interest in the analog sounds of the past. In line with other recent products by Maurizio, this album also has its fulcrum in an interiority that explodes towards the surrounding world through electronic and abstract…

Panoramic Feelings resurfaces as a mega-rare Italian library masterpiece - Alessandro Alessandroni's 1971 Canopo opus blending psych, funk, lounge and bossa from the legendary whistler of spaghetti western fame.

Mostly improvised by clarinettist Tony Scott, backed by Hozan Yamamoto and Shinichi Yuize — on the Japanese instruments shakuhachi and koto — this 1964 album is a precursor to later movements in ambient and new age music, from in and out of the jazz world.

Piero Umiliani's lost 1970 masterpiece finally reissued. His hypnotic score for Mario Bava's cult thriller 5 Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto fuses jazz, lounge, and psychedelic rock into sophisticated cinematic perfection. One of Cinevox's rarest artifacts, never reissued on LP until now. Essential for Italian film music collectors.

Limited edition numbered to 500 copies. Transparent green vinyl format / 180 grams + CD. One of cinema's greatest composers ventures into his darkest territory. Ennio Morricone's haunting soundtrack to Elio Petri's 1968 psychological thriller A Quiet Place in the Country stands as perhaps his most radical and experimental work - a disturbing sonic journey that abandons melodic comfort for pure psychological terror. The film follows a painter (Franco Nero) in creative crisis who retreats with his…

Nino Rota's most radical work finally gets deluxe treatment. His groundbreaking Fellini Satyricon score abandons melody for archaic soundscapes - tribal percussion, atonal instruments, dissonant choirs creating an alien musical language. This avant-garde masterpiece evokes ancient worlds through pure sonic imagination. Limited transparent red vinyl edition of 500.