Music from Italy

1976 album on Durium with mood jazz cover renditions of popular international tunes by the celebrated saxophone player with distinctive glamour cover.

1982 album on Durium with mood jazz cover renditions of popular international tunes by the celebrated saxophone player with distinctive glamour cover.

Japan-only 1972 album on Globe of easy-listening renditions for trumpet and lush orchestrations of pop and classical hits by the celebrated Italian trumpet player. Glamour cover, with obi.

Girolamo De Simone (Naples, 1964)—composer, pianist, music historian, proponent of "new music," and publisher of "new discourses" on music (through the magazine *KonSequenz*, established in 1994)—has recently released the CD *Liturgie*. The live recording of the six tracks featured on the CD took place in April 2024 during a piano performance at the Fondazione Morra in Naples, held in conjunction with an exhibition dedicated to the French intermedial poet Henri Chopin (Paris, June 18, 1922 – Lon…

*150 copies limited edition* “Of Grey Grounds” explores an intermediate state, neither alive nor dead, neither fully real nor entirely abstract. The “grey grounds” are conditions of existence shaped by erosion, repetition, and absence. The album moves through inner and cosmic landscapes stripped of identity, where everything is reduced to trace, echo, or residue. Matter loses definition; forms dissolve into a suspended continuum where memory and perception can no longer preserve clear contours. …

Before becoming recognized as an influential figure in ambient music, Gigi Masin was working for the Italian postal service. In 1986, he privately released Wind, his first album, choosing to share it mainly with friends and audiences at his intimate performances rather than pursue a commercial distribution. Much of the remaining vinyl disappeared when a flood destroyed his Venetian home. The album’s origins went back to Masin’s years as a local radio DJ, when he used the station’s equipment to e…

Cacciamali is an exploration of diegetic sound, folk chants and traditional rhythms and instrumentation building upon Milan based Rosso Polare’s last outing Campo Amaro and the subsequent departure of co-founder Anna Vezzosi from the group. Where the 2024 album incorporated a heavy use of folklore as a new tool, Cacciamali explores the influence further by bringing in a host of collaborative players including Italian avant-garde veteran Riccardo Sinigaglia, sound artist and researcher HMOT (Stas…

Violence! brings the electrifying legacy of maestro Franco Micalizzi to the spotlight once again. Based on the celebrated soundtrack for the cult movie Il Cinico, L’infame E Il Violento, this release captures the raw energy and kinetic rhythm that made the film an enduring reference point for generations of soundtrack lovers and cinema fans. A true magnet for genre enthusiasts, the film features an unforgettable, stellar cast, including Maurizio Merli, Tomas Milian, and John Saxon. Beyond its im…

A really must-have for any Library Breaks DJ vinyl collector. This is Silvano  Chimenti and Romano Rizzati (alias Walter Rizzati) I Gres Vol.1, a sought-after  funky breaks Library monster featuring the noted track "Restless" made famous  by DJ Leacy, and containing other dope breaks and beats.  I Gres were a studio group only founded by Silvano Chimenti that recorded 3  studio albums, recording Funky Library music. Band name brings the members  signs: the "G" of organist Giorgio Carnini , "R" s…

*Warehouse find!* "D.N.A." is a contemporary jazz album recorded at Mondial Studios in Milan in December 1996 by two 'heavyweights' of Italian and international jazz music, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mario Rusca, the latter here feature with his trio accompanied by double bass player Lucio Terzano and drummer Tony Arco. The album alternates original compositions written by Mario Rusca with evergreen classics of the genre.  In 1997 SAAR Records with its Giants Of Jazz label for the contemp…

If you don't know 'Clouds' then, quite naturally, you'd have to be living underground. The work of Venetian composer Gigi Masin went mostly ignored until Music From Memory's early-2010s reissue campaign pulled him and his ingenious ambient works out of the murk, among which many salvages include his now calling-card, 'Clouds'. Re-pressed astonishingly through P-Vine of all labels, this soul-quelling masterwork - first recorded in 1989 for a split release with Charles Hayward and mostly forgotten…

*Warehouse find!* In Italy, the genre of documentary film has represented a particularly fertile field for a critical review of the musical contribution to cinema at least since as early as the 1950s. The Italian public television RAI used to broadcast disturbing  paranoiac dramas, weird documentaries on the bottom of the sea and indigestible so-called “educational” movies. ESP was a television series produced by Rai in 1973, directed by Daniele D'Anza, and aired from Sunday, May 27 1973 t…

Francesco Battiato was born on 23 March, 1945, in Jonia, a small town in the province of Catania. After attending the secondary school he moved to Milan to seek his fortune as a musician, but without any significant results during the first years. Giorgio Gaber listened to him by chance and, sensing his talent, recommended him to Ricordi, who didn’t want to engage him. Therefore, Gaber recommended him to Walter Gürtler, who immediately accepted to include him in the group of the protest singers,…

*2026 repress* 1971’s ‘About Time’ was the Ping Pong debut album. Founded by Alan Taylor from The Casuals it was one of the first bands in Italy (based in Bologna) to be inspired by the British sound of the period moving between late ‘60 psychedelic rock and the jazzy prog such Jethro Tull, Tonton Macoute, Camel and Caravan. 10 tracks all sung in English delicate and exceptionally well performed with warm precision, enthusiasm and greater energy in which the excellent musicians highlight their a…

Released on 6 panel digipak CD in a limited edition of 200 copies

*300 copies limited edition* Released on CD with 16 pages A5 booklet.

Earlier this year, Deutsche Grammophon announced and delivered one of the most exciting initiatives in recent memory: a brand-new audiophile vinyl reissue series dedicated to crucial avant-garde and experimental works from its own extensive catalog. Beginning with Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien No.1 / Société II (1970), Mauricio Kagel's Acustica (1972), and Tōru Takemitsu's Quatrain / A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden (1980), these deluxe limited editions completely blew us away, returning…

Exclusive Bad Sector tape release for his live-gig at XXI Congresso Post Industriale.

The Commission marks forty years of Capricorni Pneumatici with an eerie convergence of sound and image. A new CD of liturgical trances and mechanical nightmares intersects with Tomislav Török Terek’s London installation, where ritual ambient, police sirens and Tunguska dreams fuse into one destabilizing, cavernous listening experience.

Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the brilliant OST by Ennio Morricone for the romantic film La notte e il momento, directed in 1995 by Anna Maria Tatò with a screenplay by Anna Maria Tatò and Jean-Claude Carrière, photography by Giuseppe Rotunno, editing by Ruggero Mastroianni, music by Ennio Morricone, production by Arthur Pictures, Société Française De Production (Sfp), and Cecchi Gori Group - Tiger Cinematografica, distribution by Cecchi Gori Group, and a cast featuring Willem Dafoe, …