Music from Italy

LP 180gr black vinyl, 2020 repress. "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is neither more nor less than the perfect soundtrack to the most wonderful of western movies, the third and final act of the "Dollar Trilogy" directed by Sergio Leone. A film not only rated among the best of the genre, but universally considered among the most successful in the history of cinema. Ennio Morricone, a higher caliber composer to whom each musician usually relates with the simple title of 'Master', has here been abl…

"Phenomena", a film by Dario Argento from 1985, is today an international cult classic of horror cinema, born once again from the Italian director’s incredible imagination. The original soundtrack was a mix of songs from the duo Simonetti-Pignatelli, made specifically for the film, together with others already published by Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Andi Sex Gang and Bill Wyman.A fragmentary score, that in this reissue edited by AMS Records makes sense now, as it focuses solely on the production si…

Pathogenesis # one consist of two tracks of Marco Corbelli included in two compilations released on its own label Slaughter Productions. The track on the A side is called ‘'Evisceration/Sek.5 pt.2'' and was originally published on Extreme Pleasures Vol. I (Slaughter Productions tape SPT049), while the track on the B side is titled ‘'A practical use of razorblade'' and was published originally on Beating The Meat (Slaughter Productions tape SPT008). The vinyl release is accompanied by a de…

Balanced dynamic monotony with subtle nuances and layered sound production. Clear and detailed constructions in an oblique and dense environment halting to the breaking point of suffocation. Near static insistent walls and compositions where audio shreds, erupts, buries, tense, hammers and feedback. In-your-face abrasive tracks with voiding atmosphere. Focus on panning of left/mid/right channels. Heavy use of mid-to-low end frequencies. Spoken word material consists of honest conversation…

Static Walls from the master behind Italian label URASHIMA

Cometa Music Publishing with this cd nr. 41 begins a new series of collection of original music tracks titled: SPECIAL THEME SERIES and the First proposed theme in this CD is  Unusual Grotesque  that means: UNUSUAL – is the contrast with the normal life of every days or the habits. GROTESQUE – is a tragicomic effect based on a desired disproportion between the elements of a particular dramatic moment. And who better than our great, incomparable, eclectic Maestro Ennio Morricone could inaugurate …

This soundtrack composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone is just as such intense as any other score composed by the Master. This music involves the audience so deeply inside the plot. It captures the viewers mind, and makes them to share in the drama from the first to the last shot of the movie. Maestro Morricone is not new to this kind of magic. If we close our eyes and we indulge in our memories, we will have the feeling of famous notes, such as those of Once Upon a Time in the West, Metti un…

The  film music composed by Maestro Piero Umiliani is very appropriate, the  orchestration is really good and the workmanship is excellent. The various musical atmospheres  accompanying the scenes are very live. They create the pathos that binds viewers and force  them to hold their breath for the duration of the film.

Outstanding fourth box, including dead stock find of some incredible original editions of the best background music library Piero Umilani LPS. Each one is worth already some money, but here's your chance to get them as a beautiful handscreened box made especially for this occasion in order to give 'new life' to this wonderful ageless music.After the first appreciated edition of the three boxes (containing his ethnic compositions, then his weird electronic music and the ambient ones), we are …

The late 70's rejection of punk and rock-oriented music within select underground subcultures was signified by the works of bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and Whitehouse. Using their network of record labels and propaganda, these like-minded noise makers created a sound and aesthetic that is known far and wide as something quite English.  But in Italy, a storm was slowly brewing in the works of a lone composer by the name of Maurizio Bianchi.   Starting in 1979, Bianchi formed hi…

After releasing a couple of albums since their 2011 reunion, Confusional Quartet is back again with an extraordinary new project; a brand new release featuring the voice of the great late Demetrio Stratos, the legendary lead singer of Area - International Popular Group. At the tail end of the seventies, the Bologna based Confusional Quartet represented one of the finest examples of the Italian new wave scene. A complex and energetic mixture between experimental rock, jazz and fresh sounds…

finally ZU are back, with an amazing new line-up. Full album to follow in summer.

**200 numbered copies on purple vinyl** Quality reissue of a private LP, issued in edition of 300 copies in 1982; a skeletal extremist project that will then transform into the \'soundtrack\' of a movie with the same title, edited and directed by Paul Hurst. It\'s the setting of the griable pre-apocalyptic fossilization, the supreme lapidation of the meanness which creates the myth. There are actual melodies present -- dense and dark that mutate into harsh electronic outbursts. \"In order to cre…

The Confusional Quartet are Enrico Serotti, Gianni Cuoghi, Lucio Ardito and Marco Bertoni, a four piece experimental band with new wave, avant-garde and post rock influences who have been recording since the late 70s. Having first released their debut album more than three decades ago, they now return with a new, eponymously entitled full length on Hell Yeah recordings, due for release in October 2012 and accompanied by fabolous artwork by Andrea Amaducci. One of the most recognized Italian band…

Remastered from the original master tapes with superior sound quality, replica of the original RCA 10"(with bonus CD) in a limited edition of 500 copies. This is one of the most important albums in Umiliani’s career. There are ten original tracks, an ambitious project that surprises and captures jazz lovers. The reviewer of Musica Jazz magazine, who usually writes about American artists, in the issue no. 11 dated November 1957 writes: “I can’t remember what other ambitious and successful attempt…

*2022 stock* Remastered from the original master tapes with superior sound quality, replica of the original RCA LP (with bonus CD) in a limited edition of 500 copies.  One of the best scores signed by Piero Umiliani, a unique soundtrack settled in an immense Los Angeles as it has never been shown in an American movie.Piero Umiliani was contacted in 1958 by Mario Monicelli to compose the soundtrack of the movie “I Soliti Ignoti” (Big Deal on Madonna Street). It was not the usual kind of soundtrac…

Replica of the legendary 1958 EP, this is Piero Umiliani at his best: groundbreaking modern jazz music soundtrack with top jazz italian musicians and guest star Chet Baker on trumpet. Umiliani was the first Italian to bring jazz to the big screen and experimented by using legendary trumpeter Chet Baker; a collaboration and friendship that gave life to a fine collection of recordings.

Rare Original! By 1975, I Gres had established themselves as one of the most consistently exciting groups in the Italian library music scene. Their first two volumes, released on Globevision and Gemelli, had demonstrated a remarkable range, moving fluidly between hard-hitting funk, atmospheric bossa nova, blues-rock workouts, and cinematic mood pieces. For their third and final album, the group expanded both their sonic palette and their compositional team, bringing in Salvatore Lo Turco as an a…

**CD edition** Long-awaited reissue of this incredible and near-mythical 1970 album, remastered from the original master tapes with superior sound quality, replica of the original RCA LP (in gatefold digipack with additional liner notes) in a limited edition of 500 copies. An insane amalgam of avant-improvisation and motorik krautrock beats that, understandably, has become one of the most collectable LPs ever issued (original copies are impossible to obtain).Just as the first "krautrock" lp's we…

Digital noise by the the sweatest, high volume, voices of Japanese girls in the distance, Otaku's stories, obsessions manifested, a rabbit, the subway.