Music from Italy

Thrilled to unveil an exclusive edition of the Atrax Morgue tape, Exterminate, meticulously hand-numbered and limited to just 99 copies. This release is part of the Slaughter Productions tape series by Urashima, dedicated to lovingly reissuing the extraordinary catalog from Marco Corbelli's pioneering label. Each cassette features newly mastered tracks by Andrea Marutti. Presented in a sophisticated black opaque slipcase O-card 300g, the cassette is housed in a clear plastic box with j-card, tra…

Thrilled to unveil an exclusive edition of the Atrax Morgue tape, Esthetik Of A Corpse, meticulously hand-numbered and limited to just 99 copies. This release is part of the Slaughter Productions tape series by Urashima, dedicated to lovingly reissuing the extraordinary catalog from Marco Corbelli's pioneering label. Each cassette features newly mastered tracks by Andrea Marutti. Presented in a sophisticated black opaque slipcase O-card 300g, the cassette is housed in a clear plastic box with j-…

The limited edition reissue of Atrax Morgue's Mechanic Asphyxia offers a haunting exploration of sound, originally released as a double tape on Slaughter Productions. This striking one-sided LP is strictly limited to just 199 copies and features four chilling tracks: Plastic Bags, What I Have (Nothing), Mechanism Of D., and Playing With My Corpse (Non Lasciare Roba In Giro, Vengono Gli Scarafaggi). Each track showcases the raw, improvised essence of Marco Corbelli’s work, recorded between March …

199 copies with new note by Gabriele Giuliani, the creative force behind Dead Body Love. It feels like I’ve been writing about Dead Body Love for as long as I have been recording harsh noise. What else can be said? I can’t express enough how much of an influence Italian harsh noise has had on my own personal works, but It also lets me and several peers investigate the techniques and styles of the 1990s harsh noise and the atmosphere that was created expressed from different regions of the world.…

Thrilled to unveil an exclusive edition of the Atrax Morgue tape, In Search Of Death, meticulously hand-numbered and limited to just 99 copies. This release is part of the Slaughter Productions tape series by Urashima, dedicated to lovingly reissuing the extraordinary catalog from Marco Corbelli's pioneering label. Atrax Morgue is the brainchild of Marco Corbelli as sound project focused in various areas related to the field of psychopathology: murder, violent death, sadism, necrophilia, schizop…

Thrilled to unveil an exclusive edition of the Atrax Morgue tape, Black Slaughter, meticulously hand-numbered and limited to just 99 copies. This release is part of the Slaughter Productions tape series by Urashima, dedicated to lovingly reissuing the extraordinary catalog from Marco Corbelli's pioneering label. Each cassette features newly mastered tracks by Andrea Marutti. Presented in a sophisticated black opaque slipcase O-card 300g, the cassette is housed in a clear plastic box with j-card,…

*200 copies limited edition* The track Witchcraft was originally released by SSS Production on a C25 cassette in 1989. Eighth Tower Records brings to light, re-releasing on CD, this esoteric industrial gem by Capricorni Pneumatici, along with three entirely unreleased tracks. Witchcraft was largely inspired by reading the Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo from 1608, in a copy of the famous 1929 Rodker edition edited by Montague Summers. The track was created using the DX7 synth, t…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a 7-inch, 45 RPM, presents the premiere vinyl edition of the two key themes composed by Ennio Morricone for the grotesque comedy Crescete e Moltiplicatevi in 1973. The film was directed by Giulio Petroni in 1973 and starred Lionel Stander, Hugh Griffith and Rosalba Neri. Morricone’s unusual score, an explosive mixture of sacred and profane, is a guttural vocal work performed by I Cantori Moderni di Alessan…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with the Riz Ortolani estate, presents the expanded vinyl edition of one of the titles most requested by maestro Ortolani’s fans: the bizarre 1978 mondo movie Brutes And Savages (aka Savana Selvaggia) Written by Jenny Craven and directed by Arthur Davis, this belongs to the select group of mondos that became notorious not for their shocking content, but for their lack of understanding of the genre. Surviving in two different cuts (92 mins and 107 mins), Brutes A…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM, Universal Music Publishing Italy and EMI General Music Publishing, presents the premiere vinyl edition of the famous giallo score composed by Ennio Morricone in 1971 for La Corte Notte Delle Bambole Di Vetro (aka Short Night Of Crystal Dolls) directed by Aldo Lado and starring Jean Sorel, Ingrid Thulin, Barbara Bach and Mario Adorf. Considered one of the best and most consistent giallos, the film is about journalist Gregory Moore (Sorel), whose corpse …

2CD Expanded Edition .Fifth western in a row for Sergio Leone after the Dollar Trilogy and “Once Upon a Time in The West”, “Giù la testa” (Duck, you sucker, 1971) is also the fifth collaboration between the director and Ennio Morricone, which would be followed by the final “Once Upon a Time in America” nearly 15 years later, before Leone’s premature death in 1989. World famous and holder of unlimited resources, with “Giù la testa” Leone directed an epic film that tells of the friendship between …

New remastered reissue, the only credited soundtrack appearance of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, makes you wish Ennio Morricone had used his free improv unit for that purpose more often. Gli Occhi Fredda Della Paura, or Cold Eyes of Fear, is an Italian slasher (giallo) from 1971. The score has Il Gruppo augmented by a rhythm section and a fuzz-wah guitarist (most likely Alessandro Alessandroni). The results sound like a creepy take on 70s Miles Davis, with driving jazz beats a la C…

One of the greatest soundtracks ever from the legendary Ennio Morricone – a real standard-setting record that's one of the top choices we go to again and again to illustrate the genius of his music! The score is a fantastic mix of the two best sides of Morricone's work – the kind of light, lilting melodies that are schooled in bossa, but turned loose on their own devices – and the darker, more atonal passages that would come to play more strongly during the 70s. The light wins over the darkness …

Super Tip! “Il Serpente” (Night Flight from Moscow) is a 1973 spy and thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil, starring among others Yul Brinner, Henry Fonda and Philippe Noiret. It’s one of the French director’s six movies that feature a soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone, who here managed to describe the thrilling atmosphere of this high-voltage espionage, alternating dramatic and mysterious passages ("Assassinio sul Lago", "Il Serpente") and experimental ones ("Astrazione con Ritmo", "Es…

CD edition. There is no figure in Italian music, nor within the country’s shimmering, expansive avant-garde, who demands the respect and awe offered to Franco Battiato. He is the beginning and the end. An artist whose output, stretching across six decades, is so diverse and singular, that it defies any concrete definition - darting from psychedelic Prog, definitive gestures in the history of Minimalism, to the heights of explicit Pop. Like many of his contemporaries, Battiato’s journey toward av…

Franco Battiato's wonderfully lively 1973 concept album Pollution is an audaciously psychedelic album drawn from the space rock dimension with good portions of electronics and keyboard layers. Drawing heavily on the VCS3 synthesizer, Battiato and company (besides himself, three backing band members play synth as well) give Pollution an extreme electronic edge. With comparisons to Ash Ra Tempel, Faust, and Pink Floyd, Pollution was declared 'genius' by Frank Zappa.

Franco Battiato moved into the 1970s on the crest of the progressive rock wave. This 1972 impossibly strange record inhabits that nether world of pop music, electronics, politics and experimental rock. Fetus is an album beyond all definition. It's a masterpiece of daring and wild risks that work every single time. Battiato takes us through eight uniquely super-detailed songs that tug at the heart strings as no other experimental record ever could."Fetus is an album beyond all definition. It's a …

*200 copies limited edition* M.B.: electronics, rhythms, neutronic effects. The two suites of Das Testament were recorded in 1982 and can be included among the most extreme and uncompromising M.B. recordings. Once more, maximum electronics.

*202 copies limited edition* First issued on LP in 1981 by Sterile Records, London, England. The moral of this work: The past punishment is the inevitable blindness of the present. MB: electronics. Symphony For A Genocide came out in 1981, on this album, MB construct brutal, hallucinatory blasts of electronic noise and grinding rhythms of hand-cut tape noise and overblown synthetic distortion.  These, bleak chilling drones are reminiscent of Conrad Schnitzler at his most neurotic, Nurse With Wou…

In 1973 Aldo Lado directs the movie “La cosa buffa” , inspired by the eponymous book by Giuseppe Berto and starring Gianni Morandi and Ottavia Piccolo. The soundtrack is composed by Ennio Morricone, who uses Edda Dell’Orso’s marvellous voice to create an unforgettable theme, both sweet and sensual. The film falls into a broad category of cinematic works that deal with relationships between adults and adolescents, and consequently the soundtrack, composed and orchestrated by Ennio Morricone, thr…