Music from Italy

Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the OST by Ennio Morricone for the drama film Il pentito, directed in 1985 by Pasquale Squitieri with a screenplay by Pasquale Squitieri, Laura Toscano, Lino Jannuzzi, Orazio Barrese, and Franco Marotta, photography by Silvano Ippoliti, editing by Mauro Bonanni, music by Ennio Morricone, production by C.G. Silver Film, Distribution Ceiad, and a cast featuring Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Erik Estrada, Max von Sydow, Rita Rusic, Marino Masé, Ivo Garrani, Imm…

Italian sound artist Giulio Aldinucci returns with his 5th album on KARL: „Materia” is unsurprisingly a truly masterfully composed and sound-designed ambient masterpiece that adds perfectly to a series of critically acclaimed albums like “Disappearing In A Mirror” (2018) or “Shards Of Distant Times” – some of which made it onto several year’s best lists.

*200 copies limited edition* Ten years after "Il dipinto ucciso", Candor Chasma returns with "Seance". While the album comes full circle, revisiting the project's original fixations - the spirit world, stripped of any gothic overtone - it also signals a decisive shift in sonic language. Frameworks of abstract noise, fractured post-techno structures, asymmetric rhythms and heavily processed percussion, filters and saturation pushed to their limits: all shape five compositions poised between hypno…

*200 copies limited edition* The seventh record from the Open to the Sea project (Enrico Coniglio, Saverio Rosi and Matteo Uggeri), Beyond the Emotional Flood, was created between Venice, Amsterdam and Milan over a five-month period in 2023, during which the three musicians experienced, separately yet synchronically connected, moments carrying an intense emotional weight. Channeling these experiences into the four Acts that structure the album's 10 tracks allowed them to sublimate the emotional …

Bringing page and tape into the same charged zone, this bundle pairs A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return with M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982, uniting Maurizio Bianchi’s most ascetic industrial vortex with Raffaele Pezzella’s definitive monograph. Together they form a single, immersive dossier on sound as extremity, withdrawal and unresolved return.

Few figures in experimental music embody rupture as completely as Maurizio Bianchi. A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return traces his arc from ferocious early industrial extremism to a radical withdrawal and enigmatic comeback, revealing an artistic ethic where creation, renunciation and re-emergence form one continuous, troubling gesture.

Recorded at a pivotal moment in his trajectory, M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 captures Maurizio Bianchi refining sound into a stark environment rather than a composition. Static yet volatile, it strips electronics to bare impulses, anticipating isolationist ambient and dark drone while remaining rooted in the brutal materiality of early industrial experimentation.

*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition. CD + 2 x A2 posters, offset, 80 gr uncoated paper* Composed, performed, and recorded by Christian Di Vito with a self-built synthesizer.

On Clandestine Anticipation, Krisma leave Italo-disco behind for a humid, video‑age dystopia, nine songs where synthetic funk, proto‑industrial atmosphere, and tropical mirages collide into one of the strangest Italian pop artefacts of the early 80s.

Limited and numbered edition, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector’s sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180g vinyl. A reissue of one of the most singular documents in Deutsche Grammophon's legendary Avantgarde series - a single LP that sets two radically opposed ways of working with magnetic tape against one another, both realized within months of each other at the same address: the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan. On o…

Savana Selvaggia collects two previously unreleased tracks by Giuliano Sorgini, highlighting one of the most visionary and experimental aspects of his library music: from an imagined African landscape through atmospheric melodies and analogue electronics ("I misteri del mondo"), to a mystical sound world where African and Middle Eastern influences merge with futuristic electronic textures and Krautrock-inspired rhythms (“Arabian Synthesizer”).  Crafted in his own Cat & Fox Studio in Rome, these …

On Il ras del quartiere, Goblin reroute their horror‑prog DNA into neon‑lit funk and sleek electronics, rescuing a cult 1983 Vanzina film from VHS purgatory with a newly remixed, visually lavish edition that finally gives these four pieces their own stage.

*30 copies limited edition* The CDr is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 3x13,50 cm sticker on the front. The CDr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a photocopied insert in the format of a mini poster of the dimensions of 22x33cm. open and 11x11 cm. closed, approximately (paper 80 gr. thick). Inside there is also a 12x12 cm. insert (200 grams thick) that reproduces in front and back two collages of M.B.

*42 copies limited edition* Handmade packaging.The CDr is contained in a 14x20 cm embossed black cardboard envelope. A sticker is attached to the envelope.A small caution/danger sign printed on PVC is in turn attached to the sticker.Inside the envelope are:- a printed CDr- a full-color tri-fold cover- a bookmark- a sticker- a printed front and back page of Les Chants De Maldoror by Le Comte De Lautréamont. The front features the original title page from the first printing of the work, while the …

*30 copies limited edition* The CDr is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with a 10x10 cm sticker on the front. The CDr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is a printed bi-folded of 12x24 cm. open and 12x12 cm. closed, approximately (paper 120 gr. thick). Subtitle: Exasperating sonata in three dissections for enharmonic pianoforte, industrial oscillations and digital emissions.

*36 copies limited edition* Handmade packaging.The CD-R is contained in a 14x20 cm embossed beige cardboard envelope. A sticker is attached to the envelope.The envelope has a hole closed with two pieces of black satin ribbon holding a little bell in silver or gold metal.There are two editions of 18 copies each one: 18 have the silver bell and 18 copies have the gold bell.Inside the envelope are:- a plastic envelope containing the black vinyl-like polycarbonate CD-R. The CD-R is printed- 2 insert…

On Fantasy, Piero Umiliani resurfaces four decades late with a perfectly preserved final statement: a 1983 library dream where analog synths, light orchestration and soft rhythms drift between science‑fiction shimmer and easy‑listening warmth, closing his universe on a quietly visionary note.

*200 copies limited edition* Glacial Movements, an ambient and electronic music label founded in Rome in 2006 by Alessandro Tedeschi (Netherworld), celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of “The Hermit,” a collection of restored archival recordings from the early 2000s. These recordings, originally stored on deteriorated CD-r and Minidisc formats, were recovered and restored to reveal early experimental sounds full of mystery and emotional depth. These earliest sound experiments emerge…

For close to a decade the sound of Italian cinema and television ran through four musicians from Rome. I Marc 4 were the rhythm section the country's leading composers reached for first, and between sessions they cut a long run of library albums under their own name. The scarcest corner of that catalogue sits on two companion imprints, Silver Music and Silver Men, issued in 1976 and seldom seen since. This new edition draws the strongest material from both onto a single LP, in the original milit…

The premiere vinyl edition of Ennio Morricone's 1977 score for Sergio Nasca's Stato Interessante, pressed on 140-gram black vinyl.