Music from Italy

Nino Rota enhances the dreamy proceedings of Fellini\'s 1963 masterpiece, with a music hall-like melange of jazz, classical, lounge, and circus music. Rota composed a glorious mix of operatic interludes, cabaret swing, polka romps, and organ combo ditties, often all within one number.

On vinyl, it's the legendary score from the Fellini's equally legendary movie. The music by Nino Rota sometimes sounds quasi-liturgical, sometimes jazzy, and sometimes it rocks. Lurking beneath is the irreverence of tuba and accordions, and snatches of pop songs. The characters in Fellini's movie are forever in motion, and Rota provides the perfect music for their processions and parades. 

**Very last copies, still sealed, light seamsplit on top** A masterpiece. Absolute. There are certain records that burst into the cultural mechanisms of "modernity" of each period, which mould fashions and manners, styles of life and shape the thought of what's contemporary.These records, and the music they contain, transform themselves into signals, points of arrival, undisputed targets for the youth cultures they meet. They are points of reference for the reading of sound periods. Others inste…

"Maurizio Bianchi's 1981 Symphony For a Genocide LP is the artist's most well known work, widely recognized as a classic of early industrial music. A year and a half after its initial release on vinyl in a limited edition of 227 copies, the album was reissued on cassette by the Broken Flag label. It was at this time that Bianchi created an entirely new recording drawn from the audio of the original LP. Entitled S.F.A.G. 81 and issued in January 1983 as a companion to the Symphony For a Genocide …

*** 3 copies back in stock*** Dead stock find of some incredible original editions of the best ambient / suspence / dark  atmospheric flavor 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 two boxes (containing his ethnic compositions and his weird electronic music), we are glad…

Seriously wicked and really hard to find in its original edition, this superb sound-library bears the mark of the great, eclectic maestro Alessandro Alessandroni. The songs on this LP were originally composed for the broadcast of eight episodes made by RAI Italian TV called "Open Window." Many mid-'70s jazz-funk/scat themes full of samples, breaks and funky tunes. Merged in this record you'll find heavy funk-drama tracks devoted to 1970s poliziottesco's grooves interfering with slow loung…

Long unavailable 12" single with the spaghetti-Whitehouse sound of violence by The Sodality. 50 discs of the original 1989 release (of some 500 copies) were found without the original sleeve and were re-packaged as '25th Anniversary edition' in occasion of The Sodality's concert in Rome at the beginning of 2014. The new cover is made of two xeroxed drawings by Bruno Richard pasted on the innersleeve, housed in transparent plastic sleeve. Edition of 50.

Cam Jazz, the company behind the great series of Black Saint/Soul Note reissues, presents the first release in a new line – the complete works by artists on the Italian label Dischi Della Quercia. The inaugural set presents the complete label output from famed Italian pianist Giorgio Gaslini and includes eleven albums that have been unavailable in the US until now. Each is presented in a slipcase with the original album artwork and housed in a sturdy box. Pianist, composer, conductor and …

Their cat may well be all too alien but there's quite an earthly feel to this epic voyage of a record from the brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio. It feels like you are slowly drifting through different continents perched on a floating glass-domed steel barge, observing the strangely contrasting cultures go about their business, seemingly unaware they are being watched. Though there are certain sounds contained herein that are quite familiar to many 21st century homosapie…

Limited edition vinyl LP in super deluxe, full-colour printed jacket, featuring cover artwork by Roberto Opalio. The idea of a recording collaboration by Nels Cline and My Cat Is An Alien was born one day in Torino, Italy, while Cline was touring with Wilco in 2007. After two other intersections of their respective orbits (first at Victoriaville, then at a UK All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in 2006), Cline eventually mailed them a CDR of prepared and heavily effected electric guita…

My Cat Is An Alien's most extreme work to date. The most advanced expression of their current creative method of composition  through  the brothers' brand new self-made strings and electronic  instrumentation. A black swamp full of analog processing and whirling drones with Maurizio Opalio playing self-made double-bodied string instrument, handmade pocket harp, antique zither, drums, percussion, sticks, cymbals, bells, gong, space modulator, real-time loops. While his brother Roberto Opalio …

Postface by M.B. - An isometric sound ineluctably holds a thematic notion which generalizes that of the rigid motion of noise, combining with a psychometric and cacophonous object. Formally, it is a modulatory function between two metric spaces preserving their silent distances. In the example shown here, isometry moves along electronic pathways and captivates the listener's mind through rotations and reflections in plane or in spatial sound, maintaining the geometric concepts of experimental su…

This strictly limited premiere release comprises a vibrantly coloured LP on green/blue/yellow splatter vinyl, plus an additional seven inch, the fuchsia coloured seven inch is a noisy split with a  with a xeroxed cover, with a numbered insert included.

Mectypo Bakterium is a work furnished of implacable plastic exasperation. The icy oppression, the hallucinatory electronic wounds, are a precious and singular fact in a technological society brought to the limit. The emotion is pushed into dangerous zones, and unusual tensions free biological groans of extreme effectiveness. A vivid expression of a world in extinction. Near exact replica of this classic Maurizio Bianchi LP published by DYS in the USA in 1982."An other awesome, bizarre, ultra-opp…

2013 release ** "This is the second release from Maurizio Bianchi for Red Light sound. It begins explores the world of tubolar percussion while track two takes a completely different turn using modular synth treatments with Pharmakustik."

M.B., also known as Maurizio Bianchi doesn’t need much introduction. In the early 80s he was responsible for a string of compelling electronic music albums in the first wave of ‘industrial music’. After a hiatus of many years he returned in the late 90s and since then has been very active with many new solo releases, but also on the side with collaborations. Here he works with Mario Costa, also known as Sostrah Tinnitus, from Italy, who has had a number of releases on labels as Umbra, Beyond, My…

MINDBLOWING! Dead stock find of some incredible original 70s editions of the best experimental and electronic 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 Umiliani box, containing his ethnic compositions, we are glad to announce the "Piero Umiliani - Lost & Found Volume II: The Electro…

Homicidal Texture was released by Slaughter Productions in early 1995 in a bizarre packaging consists of a metal mesh that completely envelops the cover. The four tracks on the tape are based on obsessive synth drones. The smell of death is soaked in every sound produced by the brilliant and twisted mind of Marco Corbelli. Anxiety, alienation and hypochondria turn into a deep paranoia in pain. Without hesitation, the bodies are emptied, leaving the field to an electronics purulence of rare power…

The first complete recording of Giacinto Scelsi's works for solo violin, including the first recording of Divertimento No. 2, played by Weiping Lin, assistant concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Presented in an elegant digipack featuring a new artwork based on the original cover pictures and fully approved by the author, "The Plain Truth" continues the series of reissues dedicated to the undisputed master of Italian Noise and Experimental Music. Officina Fonografica Italiana is particularly proud to introduce this title because it is one of the best entries in Maurizio Bianchi's ever-growing discography. Originally released in the U.K. as a 500 copies limited edition LP by Broken Flag i…