Music from Italy

“Dietro il Processo” is a set of TV investigation episodes directed by Franco Biancacci and broadcast in Italy by RAI from 1978 to 1980, as part of the “Storie allo Specchio” series. Ennio Morricone wrote the main theme for “Dietro il Processo” and scored the three episodes “L’urlo”, “L’ultima notte di Pier Paolo Pasolini” and “Il caso Montesi”. None of Morricone’s tracks were initially released and only in 2009 this soundtrack appeared on CD. For “Dietro il Processo” Ennio Morricone wrote a dar…

Four Flies Records is proud to present Paesaggio Bellico, a collection of unreleased music from legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Alessandroni.

LP trifold w/insert. Velvet Vinyl. Unreleased Goblin soundtrack for a 80s cult horror b-movie
clear fuchsia coloured vinyl with insert and new liner notes!  “The Other Hell” (L’Altro Inferno) is a 1981 horror movie directed by  Bruno Mattei (as Stefan Oblowsky) that was explicitly filmed to exploit the success of Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, even if it has little to nothing in common with it. Set in a convent, the film unabashedly mixes demonic possessions, paranormal phenomena, black magic ritual…

LP trifold w/insert. Velvet Vinyl. Unreleased Goblin soundtrack for a 80s cult horror b-movie
clear fuchsia coloured vinyl with insert and new liner notes!  “The Other Hell” (L’Altro Inferno) is a 1981 horror movie directed by  Bruno Mattei (as Stefan Oblowsky) that was explicitly filmed to exploit the success of Dario Argento’s “Inferno”, even if it has little to nothing in common with it. Set in a convent, the film unabashedly mixes demonic possessions, paranormal phenomena, black magic ritual…

* Black vinyl edition. Gatefold cover * Dario Argento’s opera prima ‘L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo’ was premiered in 1970 and marked an historical and revolutionary debut, being a truly original and innovative thriller. The stylistic choices of Argento mark a clear step forward from the thrillers of that era and even the soundtrack was something utterly special.Argento assigned the score to Ennio Morricone, composer of the soundtracks for ‘Comandamenti per un gangster’, ‘C’era una volta il …

2025 much-needed repress. Black Vinyl.  "Il Gatto a Nove Code" (The cat o 'nine tails), filmed in 1971, is the second film by Dario Argento, a horror thriller still distant from his horror works for which he will later become famous on an international level. The collaboration with the composer and conductor Ennio Morricone, already known for his work on Sergio Leone’s western movies, is here renewed after the success of "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", and will continue with the third insta…

Manic percussion, tense staccato strings, discordant piano riffs, and jazz-rock motifs – this is Il Maestro at his finest. 4 Mosche di Velluto Grigio (4 Flies on Grey Velvet) is the third and final part of Dario Argento's world famous cult, terror trilogy. Fear, according to Dario Argento, is hidden behind metaphorical, animal symbols that mirror degenerative urban decay, in other words a kind of mental zoo. Birds with crystal plumage, cats with nine tails, grey velvet flies, enough species to t…

Almost everything recorded by Confusional Quartet, the Bologna band of Lucio Ardito, Gianni Cuoghi, Enrico Serotti and Marco Bertoni: their 1980 LP, the 1981 10" and the flexi set Documentario, with outtakes and an unreleased piece.

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music, presents a remastered reissue of the ultimate edition of Veruschka (1971), one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking scores Ennio Morricone composed during the busiest period of his career. The film is a weird production by fashion photographer Franco Rubartelli—a visually lush and moody head vehicle about European supermodel Veruschka. Composed a year before Maddalena, Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack has a certain connection to th…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music, presents a remastered reissue of the ultimate edition of the obscure Ennio Morricone score for Cuore di Mamma, a dramatic, grotesque story directed by Salvatore Samperi in 1969. It is the story of Lorenza (Carla Gravina), a mother of three children who is unable to communicate. Her attitude is childish, impassive, conformist in form and substance. A mother with a heart of stone, she is harassed by political extremism from differen…

Siren Records is proud to release the re-mastered CD edition of "603... Annus Mundi" by Maurizio Bianchi. "603... Annus Mundi" is the second installment of M.B. CD re-issue series on Siren Records, following the first installment "Organemia" CD in 2023 (sold out). Originally released by Italian Sine3pm on download format in 2006. This re-issue CD is beautifully re-mastered by Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine, Organum, ORA, Elodie, Mirror) and comes with a liner-notes sheet written by M.B.

*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in the memory of the Italian public.Franco Battiato's creations have never been “simple” songs but true sound journeys that in just a few minutes take the listener to discover cultures of faraway places, mysticism, philosophy, fragments of memories, quot…

*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in the memory of the Italian public. Franco Battiato's creations have never been “simple” songs but true sound journeys that in just a few minutes take the listener to discover cultures of faraway places, mysticism, philosophy, fragments of memories, quo…

*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in the memory of the Italian public. Franco Battiato's creations have never been “simple” songs but true sonic journeys that in a few minutes take the listener to discover cultures of faraway places, mysticism, philosophy, fragments of memories, quotatio…

*2025 stock* Every Franco Battiato song is a universe to be rediscovered: Battiato is one and a hundred thousand, so many are the faces shown by the Sicilian artist during his long career and dozens are the songs that have been indelibly stamped in the memory of the Italian public. Franco Battiato's creations have never been “simple” songs but true sonic journeys that in a few minutes take the listener to discover cultures of faraway places, mysticism, philosophy, fragments of memories, quotatio…

*2025 stock* Franco Battiato's 1980 album Patriots, his first for the major multinational company EMI, found him moving to more of a synth-based pop/rock sound, the better to create stirring anthems like the opening track, "Up Patriots to Arms." The 40th anniversary edition of the album adds four bonus tracks, including English- and Spanish-language versions of that song. Later Battiato albums would enjoy widespread commercial success, but Patriots set the stage for that mass popularity.

*2025 stock* L'Era del Cinghiale Bianco (The White Boar Era) marks the clamorous Pop turning point of Franco Battiato. Created with the fundamental help of violinist Giusto Pio, this work is widely considered a masterpiece, and in 1979 it changed the destiny of Italian music forever.Essentially, it is an album of transition: between past and future, between Prog experimentalism and a new intellectual form of Pop influenced by the New Wave. The title of the album draws inspiration from a Celtic m…

*100 copies limited edition* Collaboration CDr between Maurizio Bianchi and Frequency In Cycles Per Second

*151 copies limited edition* Preface:"Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them. Happy are you when people reproach you and persecute you... Rejoyce and leap for joy, since your reward is great in the heavens; for in that way they persecuted the prophets prior to you."(Taken from the Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 5, verses 10, 11 and 12). Maurizio Bianchi/M. B. flagellated afflicted pre-recorded sounds and troubled w…

Hans Gertberg, since 1952 jazz editor and as such as responsible for ''Jazz at the NDR'', had invited an ensemble to Hamburg that was on a European tour and in at least one way promised to shine a little light on the preferences of the trombonist Mangelsdorff. At that time he was already shaping the West German scene considerably. ''The Jazz Sextet'' was the name of the illustrious tour ensemble which also showed up at the Hamburg studio. It followed the current developments up to sacrificing th…