Music from Italy

At the beginning of 1981 Maurizio Bianchi sent some demo tapes to the Come Organisation in England; after that, they extracted and blended together the sounds to get the final work. The title « Under The Victory Banner », an anachronistic and detrimental track for the rest of the album has been replaced by the title of the same set « Plutoniumetrio » edited in 1982 by the Come Organisation for the compilation « Für Ilse Koch », which fits much better with the other tracks.  The Come Organisation…

**restocked, last copies** First official reissue ever for this Italian holygrail soundtrack, finally back to life in a longwaited 180gr. limited edition supervised by M° Giuliano Sorgini himself, who also signs here his personal liner notes. Remastered from the original master tapes preserved for more than 40 years in almost perfect shape, Zoo Folle is a super-wanted psych-funk album, a truly masterpiece for all breaks-beat lovers, full of rhythmic percussions, acid flute, synth works, dar…

**in stock now** Gerardo Iacoucci's Urbanistica is one of the most elusive LP from the very sought after Octopus series. Released in 1971 as a non-commercial album of background music specially recorded for cinema, radio and television, Urbanistica is now come back to life in a special 180gr limited edition of 500 copies. Gerardo Iacoucci is one of the men behind Flipper's sound scene, also known for L'Avventura and Simbolismo Psichedelico (both published for Deneb label), but this is defin…

** restock due soon** Overdrive present the soundtrack to La Cugina (1974) by Ennio Morricone. First time on vinyl ever. Released on 180 gram colored vinyl. La Cugina is the soundtrack of one of the most sought after Italian sexy comedies.The music is composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone. Jazzy and lush textures featuring choir I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni, Oscar Valdambrini on flugelhorn, and Edda Dell'Orso on vocals.fantastic score from Ennio Morricone – one of those…

2016 Repress. With an additional six tracks, the CD release of Talk to the Sea delves deeper into the archives of Gigi Masin; taking two tracks from the album Wind and presenting four previously-unreleased tracks. For their much-anticipated second release, Music From Memory takes you into the world of Italian musician Gigi Masin. Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self-released two modestly pressed LPs, Wind (1986) and Wind Collec…

A pure beauty! Unreleased before experimental music composed by Ennio Morricone and mostly performed by the legendary Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, with some surprising use of percussions, vocals and electronics too! The maestro has used electric instrumentation on other scores, but this one has a pretty different feel – a handful of tracks that have more of a future-sounding quality,  with a spacious mix of light strings and more sparely focused instrumentation. Other numbers get …

** in restock** First time on vinyl ever, released on 180g coloured vinyl. Taken from the 1965 horror-goth movie directed by Mario Caiano as Allan Grunewald, a very sparse and dark soundtrack with luscious orchestration, with many dissonant passages and an overall experimental feel."A very weird little soundtrack from Ennio Morricone – earlier than most of his classics, and done in a style that's much more conventionally horror-based! The film may be known to American viewers as Nightmare…

Italy’s prince of chill Gigi Masin teams up with multitalented muse Mirco Salvadori for a tender excursion into the world of the piano in an attempt to build a unified poetry of art and sound in Hazkara. I mean, that’s pretty much a guarantee if you include a 48-page book with a CD, words and pictures and all. The first thing I noticed was the prominence of the piano on this one, more so than recent Music From Memory compilation Talk to the Sea, anyway. Yeah, I’m a pedestrian Masin fan. Being …

'Absurdum' is a handmade box that includes a handmade book with 5 original collages, three LPs (each housed in its own handmade cover), a CDr, 6 different 13x13cm photos, and 85 8x13cm photos. Limited to 17 numbered and signed copies.

Zu has always been a mercurial and ever-changing entity: unafraid of cross-genre explorations, eager to break down barriers between musical styles. Despite playing traditional instruments, major influences on Zu's music have always been sonic explorers like Coil, Throbbing Gristle, or early Neubauten. The sound of The Left Hand Path is the somewhat hidden side of Zu, though latent in all of its previous music. It's like digging out a box from the earth, containing everything the band had wished …

Il Segreto is a noir film directed in 1974 by Robert Enrico and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marlène Jobert, Philippe Noiret, Solange Pradel, Antoine Saint John, Jean-François Adam. The Ennio Morricone music reflect the noir atmosphere of the plot where a veritable subtle "manhunt" against three people is unleashed. Suspense music on the border of the avant-garde experiments (harps with echoes) is alternated to a nostalgic motif with the voice of Edda Dell'Orso. At the time, only a 45…

The mid 70s presented mature, fertile grounding for maestro Piero Uimiliani’s Sound Workshop Studio, exploring side ways explorations in to gravitational soundscapes and beyond.... Released in 1975 via his prolific Omicron imprint, Genti e Paesi Del Mondo (‘Peoples and Countries of the World’) is a return to the ethnic flavours so beloved of Umiliani’s zeitgeist. Umiliani turns anti-clockwise launching a left field mental audio pad to uncharted territories. On Genti e Paesi Del Mondo spa…

**CD version** “Questo sporco mondo meraviglioso” is one of the numerous collaborations between the director Luigi Scattini and Piero Umiliani, and one of the most interesting and varied soundtracks within the composer’s repertoire. Produced in collaboration with Piero Loy, the picture falls into the Mondo Movies genre, documentaries dedicated to controversial and shocking topics (without aspiring to be journalistic or adhering to scientific evidence). In this case, Scattini’s direction focuses …

“La ragazza dalla pelle di luna” is the first chapter of Piero Scattini’s acclaimed movie trilogy,completed by “La ragazza fuoristrada” (1973) and “Il corpo” (1974), whose soundtracks were all entrusted into Piero Umiliani’s expert hands. With a title taking inspiration from the fame of Seychelles’ indigenous beauties (a myth later dismissed by Scattini himself) the film found its protagonist thanks to a casual encounter between the director and the beautiful model Zeudi Araya, the first element…

Subsound Records is proud to present the first release of their new-born sub-label Sub Ost, concentrated on original soundtracks only. For the first time on vinyl is the complete original soundtrack to Lucio Fulci's Manhattan Baby, written in 1982 by Fabio Frizzi. Available in limited 180g vinyl. Comes with deluxe cover with a printed inner sleeve including original artwork.

Double CD box. Another breath-taking production library rarity getting its first ever commercial release via the reissue masters at Cinedelic making this set's one of the greatest Italian library of the 70s. Egisto Macchi has explored and experimented in the field of sound and music without ever forgetting about his moral and civil engagement. His compositional work takes shape from the idea that music and arts should be able to create a symbiotic contact between the creator (composer) a…

Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 masterpiece La Notte is an atmospheric and enthralling movie starring the great Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti and is the second entry in his famous "alienation trilogy" the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'Avventura (1960) and ending withL'Eclisse (1962). Antonioni's composer-of-choice for the first and the third movies was Giovanni Fusco, however, since La Notte was shot in Milan, Antonioni's initial idea was to hire a native compos…

This is the premiere CD reissue of one of the rarest records by the Gruppo d’improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, originally issued in 1973 by General Music and recently made available on a vinyl reissue by the American label Superior Viaduct. Il Gruppo perform their own compositions, transporting the listener to a dimension of obscure sounds and providing the “soundtrack” for a film that does not exist. The music evokes an Italian-style Giallo score, and it’s no coincidence that the group als…

* Out now * The niche occupied by libraries in the history of Italian music is full of amazing stories, such as Rotary Records’ one – actually one of the most interesting and peculiar. The label, created and led by renewed composer Amedeo Tommasi, released seven albums in just one year – between 1973 and 1974 – of material ranging from futuristic experimentations to classic and jazz (the latter being one of the biggest passions of Tommasi). He wasn’t just the boss, but also played piano and elec…

For the 1979 cult sci-fi movie L'umanoide (The Humanoid), directed by Aldo Lado (credited asGeorge B. Lewis), the legendary Ennio Morricone composed a score of catchy, futuristic, synthesizer-based arrangements with great electro-orchestral disco grooves and dissonant atmospheric soundscapes, marking quite a departure from his usual style.  "A weird later Ennio Morricone soundtrack – and one with some surprising use of electronics and keyboards too! The maestro has used electric instrumentati…