Music from Italy

Special edition of Goblin’s masterpiece, here released on blue iris coloured vinyl with 30x30cm insert and new liner notes. After the incredible debut of “Profondo Rosso” (Deep Red), the soundtrack of the eponymous 1975 film directed by Dario Argento, no one could ever imagine that shortly afterwards Goblin would be able not only to reach its heights but even further refine what the band already delivered in their first record.  While “Profondo Rosso” had been partly composed by Giorgio Gaslini,…

*50 copies limited edition* Quiet armonic ambient from the Italian master. The cdr is contained in a cover measuring 14.50x14.50 cm. approximately, printed in color on high quality 300 gram thick embossed ribbed paper. The cover is closed by a 300 gram polyester tag printed in color, which bears the name of the M.B. project. Four colored satin ribbons pass through the tag, then knotted on the back of the cover. The ribbons are four different colors, and are chosen from the colors white, black, g…

*2024 stock. 50 copies limited edition* A collaboration between BeTon FlashCut and Death In Venice Productions. A lost short track of Atrax Morgue, noise and power electronics from Italy with the demoniac voice of Marco Corbelli/Atrax Morgue. Usual strange edition with a resin witch! The business card CDr and cover are contained in a plastic document holder (approx. 8x11.8 cm). The package is closed with a satin ribbon (black) on which is knotted a pendant in the shape of a witch made in colored…

*2024 stock. 36 copies limited edition* Industrial, power electronics, noise from Uncodified: the anatomy is started! The series of Tavole Anatomiche (anatomic tables) is mainly based on the engravings of Giulio Casseri and Andrea Vesalio. Each Tavola Anatomica (anatomica table) is entrusted to a different artist, which provides his particular vision of the theme. Each Tavola, belonging to a series, has a common part (the cover face and the back -this one different for the notes only-) and a dif…

*2024 stock. 36 copies limited edition* the fourth chapter in the serie Memento. This one is dedicated to Memento of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese. Industrial, power electronics and noise from the Italian project Uncodified. Completely handmade packaging. The card is contained in a black envelope measuring 12x9 cm. about. The black envelope is in embossed cardboard (300 grams) with a leather-like effect, and is closed by a withe ribbon on which the coupon with the copy number is inserted, and a…

*40 copies limited edition* Uncodified composed his Requiem for the silent film actress and Hollywood star who died of an overdose in the early 1930s. Industrial music with a sad and refined touch Mini CDr art edition. The package, completely handmade, is made up of a shaped and folded cardboard. The folded and closed package forms a completely ivory white envelope, when opened it forms a mourning memorial that resembles a tombstone. The closed envelope is wrapped in a black satin ribbon holding…

2024 reissue. Beat Records relaunches on the market the classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Western film "Le pistole non discutono", directed in 1964 by Mario Caiano and starring Rod Cameron, Ángel Aranda, Vivi Bach, Horst Frank, José Canalejas, Kay Fisher, Joseph Martin, Hans Nielsen, Dick Palmer, Judy Robbins, and Andrew Ray. For this film, Ennio Morricone composed the song “Lonesome Billy", a Western ballad with an American sound introduced by guitars and whistle with the voice of Pete Tev…

*75 copies limited edition* Campo Amaro is the fourth album by Rosso Polare, the Milan-based duo of Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi. These compositions were inspired by observing the waterways that surround the fields of various Italian regions, the so-called ditches (fossi), bodies of water that are often polluted, but may also be full of flora and wildlife, lined with bitter and edible herbs. Throughout this land, small and distant chants emerge, twisted traditional songs of resistance or mad…

“I was born in the sun of a big country that free maybe never was, a big country of happy people, of big forests and big cities.” This is how Alberto Camerini's second album opens, and it is clear from the outset that one is dealing with something not easy to categorize, wild, but equally enveloping and fascinating. The overall sound, while diverse, retains its own continuity and comes across as a blend of Brazilian sounds, singer-songwriter songwriting, and DIY bedroom electronics, with Camerin…

Big Tip! Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered reissue of famous giallo score composed by Ennio Morricone in 1971 for Cosa avete fatto a Solange?, directed by Massimo Dallamano and starring Fabio Testi, Joachim Fuchsberger, Cristina Galbó and Camille Keaton. Morricone’s thriller scores remain some of his most distinctive and original works. As demonstrated in his scores for Dario Argento’s efforts in the genre, Morricone’…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered 45th anniversary reissue of Ennio Morricone’s bizarre sci-fi score for Aldo Lado’s The Humanoid (1979), a sort of parody-reboot-plagiarism-homage to the recent Star Wars success that featured a cast of actors famous for their recent appearances in The spy who loved me, and Moonracker: Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach and Corinne Clery. The story encompasses stealing revolutionary scientific…

Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters. Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention. In this recording, with flugelhorn and piano glowing in the superb acoustic of the Lugano studio, Rava and Hersch explore some much-loved standards: Jerome Kern’s “The Song Is You”, Thelonious Monk’s “Mysterioso” and “’Round Midnight”, Jobim’s “Retrato em Bra…

* 300 copies, machine-printed numbered edition, gatefold cover, 180gr vinyl * 1973’s Sulle Corde Di Aries was Franco Battiato's third release and showed his fascination for electronic, minimalist and systemic musics, as well as his third chapter in Battiato’s foray into esoteric pop. While the artist would venture further out into avant-garde terrain on subsequent releases, his early records enjoy a lyrical and playful spirit—eschewing traditional, song-based composition in favor of kosmische vo…

CD Version. The peculiar and relatively unknown musical experiment by Alessandro Mendini, crafted together with a strange company that included supposedly distant outfits like Matia Bazar (chart-topping Italian pop band) and Magazzini Criminali (experimental, highbrow theater collective) and released by a major label that printed a tiny amount of copies.The opening track “Casa Mia” included random quotes from Cinismo Abitativo, a “poetic” editorial written for the design magazine MODO exactly 40…

In an incredible stroke of luck, the Silentes sub-imprint, 13, returns with a long-awaited, expanded reissue of one of their most beloved and sought-after releases, Gigi Masin's incredible "Plays Venezia". An homage to the city that he calls home, issued in three beautiful editions - vinyl, CD and Cassette - these rippling sheets of piano and ambience, threaded by diverse sonorous sources, encounter the legendary Italian minimalist at his absolute, setting the stage for what is easily one of the…

*2024 stock* Three Things is a new full-length album of pieces conceived, performed and recorded by long-term collaborators Luciano Maggiore and Louie Rice. The pair are known for multi-pronged activities as artists and organisers which have quietly but surely informed the shape of the United Kingdom's experimental audio underground for many years. Under the guise of Nopaon, they developed a series of events and performances in which they realised scores by Alvin Lucier, Robert Bozzi, Ken Friedm…

** mini LP replica with obi & Japanese insert ** Killer. **First official reissue ever, certified holy-grail. Edition of 300 copies, black vinyl 180gr. Comes with Obi, and original liner notes by Jonny Trunk** At the end of the '60s in Italy - but also abroad, especially in France and England - a very particular trend began to spread, that one known as 'Library music' or 'sonorization': as suggested by its name, those were real music libraries intended for the accompaniment of audiovisual produc…

** mini LP replica with obi & Japanese insert ** Giuliano Sorgini is one of the most mysterious composers of soundtracks and sonorizations, the latter being a particular line of music compositions created specifically for the accompaniment of audiovisual productions such as television programs, advertisements, documentaries and films; these are works made in total artistic freedom, without limits imposed by a specific musical genre.Sorgini's name is linked to a wide series of records and music w…

** Deluxe edition. Lavish 650-gram single tip-on jacket adorned with new artwork ** Four Flies is thrilled to announce a reissue of Piero Umiliani’s soundtrack to the 1969 giallo thriller “Orgasmo” (called “Paranoia” in English speaking countries), the first of three erotically charged films directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring cult siren (and Oscar nominee) Carroll Baker. Back in 2020, we unveiled the first-ever release of this iconic soundtrack, whose master tapes were thought lost for decad…

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered edition of two iconic western scores by Ennio Morricone for the for the classic Ringo diptych, directed by Duccio Tessari in 1965 and starring Giuliano Gemma. This 2-CD deluxe edition brings together all the previously released material from both Ringo movies with programs that were originally put together for RCA and GDM Music. Disc 1 contains the stereo program of both Ringo movies,…