Music from Italy

RESTOCKED, very last copies around, and price reduced!  A lovely reissue of a collection of rare experimental, avant-garde music that was composed/recorded in 1972 by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai for the RCA catalogue. It was entitled "Dimensioni Sonore" and was issued across 10 LPs and created to be used as library/background music that film-makers could licence to use in their productions. The music of each track was created in order to give, in a series of expressive dynamic work throu…

"Second and final collaborative work by MB [Maurizio Bianchi] & MO [Mauthausen Orchestra], recorded before the premature departure of Pierpalo Zoppo the man behind Maurhausen Orchestra (R.I.P.).In the modulatory system, sounds are extracted from a basic materialistic sound and then overlaid with the use of random techniques that conceal the rumoristic load-bearing tones. The result is these "Material Modulations", which represent the primary device to receive physical and emotional response for …

Restocked!! Includes 16 page booklet and a download code redeemable from the label with bonus tracks. It's a bountiful collection of unheard prog and space rock rich with minimoog, created by Franco Falsini - whose 'Cold Nose' recently turned up on Spectrum Spools. His later synth bits like 'Darkside' are exceptional and practically worth the admission alone. Not so sure about the earnest prog noodling, though... Packaged in reverse card slipcase with colour inners and a 20-page book…

Historical collaboration between two of the fathers of Italian (and not only Italian) Old-School Industrial, Maurizio Bianchi and Mauthausen Orchestra."Creating noise is determined by the presence of an original particle to which randomly apply an alteration to convey a voltage-activated disturbing that determinates the electrophonic perturbation. As a result we obtain the spiritual noisesMO_disturbo" Sounds by M.B.: ancient loops, modern metals and futuristic waves and M.O. :synthesizer, loops,…

Exclusive work by Italian noise legend Maurizio Bianchi.A marginal division of the whole existence in four palpable seasons, marked by pestilential changes in emotional  hemisphere. At the end, the hibernating organisms organize a reproducing molecule of environmental for a silent "hybernum".‘Hibernum’ contains 3 lengthy, slowly shifting atmospheres for private meditation.

LP version **A Mythical Italian Library session from Ennio Morricone's Guitarist and Whistler beautifully reissued and including liner notes by Jonny Trunk** Exquisitely crafted psychedelic lounge music, basement bossa and Italian mood music by the guy most famous for whistling on classic Morricone records. Remastered from original tapes and reissued for first time on vinyl with replica sleeve. "Undoubtedly one of the central figures of 1960s/70s Italian film music, Alessandro Alessandroni…

Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) has long existed in the shadow of his friend and famous collaborator Ennio Morricone. Founding member of the astounding ‘Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza ' Macchi was a busy film (LSD Inferno, Bandidos, The Assassination Of Trotsky) and TV (E.S.P, many commercials with Mario Bava) composer in late 1960s and 1970s Italy and France. Macchi also cut a number of highly desirable library LPs for the Gemelli, Sermi and other Italian labels in the 1970s. ‘I Futuri…

Reissue of the private LP, issued in an edition of 300 copies in 1982 and titled in original Mörder Unter Uns/Neuro Habitat , considered with Regel one of the Maurizio Bianchi's most representative works , Neuro Habitat is finally reissued for the first time in vinyl and remastered under the supervision of the Milanese artist. Side A "Morder Unter Uns" made of puzzled motifs and effects is a dark, sinister mantra to oppressive musical experiences. The piece finishes in an industry of molecular, …

Lovely 2xCD digipack + 16 page booklet: CD1 features Luigi Nono's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura (1992), an original title, a unique aesthetic metaphor even: one could say that the past reflected in the present [nostalgica] brings about a creative utopia [utopica]; the desire for what is known becomes a vehicle for what will be possible [futura] through the medium of distance. Performed by Tiziana Pintus /violin and Hans Van Eck /sound projection (The Schreck Ensemble).- CD2 features Ha…

“intersezioni di vortici, studi ritmici e false chimere” is a suite of ten short compositions for modular analog synthesizer (except for one track that incorporates a few sounds recorded with a microphone). Initially conceived as series of studies on panning and phasing, the work ended to incorporate parts of two other series, all realised in Bologna between November 2011 and March 2012. The cover includes some of Maggiore’s drawings from the same period. Luciano Maggiore lives and w…

While the previous Chasm Achanés was based on low and rumbling frequencies, Maggiore and Brasini research is now focused on high pitched waves, through which they create a continuous movement of overtones and resonances. Tiny mechanical cracks are heard through the frequency bliss of the first track, a last resemblance of humanity into this otherwordly atmosphere.The second track has a continuous click, almost a clock, hidden under the microtones of three different frequencies which create an…

Released 2010 by At War With False Noise: Second in the At War series of early CD issues of tapes by noise legend Maurizio Bianchi. This has been a long time coming and I promise the next installment (Mectypo/Blut since you ask) won't take so long and should surface early next year. Both these albums are lofi, featuring very primitive use of synthesizer, tape loops and tape manipulation. There's a real charm and otherworldly feel to them, There's something very prescient about MB's explorations …

2009 release ** "A long and almost solemn track built with reverberated piano notes, a slow and rhythmical flow leaned on a background made of clashing hisses and vague, distant, rustling ambient noises. A brief interval based on obscure drones moving in circles, inexorably entangled on themselves. Then another long piano-based track, this time more dilated, confused, ethereal and prim, so much that it takes the distinguishing features of an indecipherable sonic mass, abstract and booming, estra…

This is the second collaborative album from Maurizio Bianchi and Siegmar Fricke following their Muitnelis disc, which I have yet to actually hear. Stroma-Konkret is a pretty heavy slab of minimal industrial though. The disc comes from the Russian industrial/ambient label Monochrome Vision, and like other releases from the label, the disc is packaged with black and white artwork and includes liner notes on the artists and the music contained inside. According to the liner notes, this album…

First issued as a limited private tape in 1981.2010 re-issue of 500 copies on Kubitsuri Tapes (Japan).

The Italian sound experimentalist/ industrialist Maurizio Bianchi/M.B. needing not any introduction comes here reissued. "NH/HN" is one of M.B.'s earliest tapes, recorded and released back in September 1980. Not to be confused with the "Nervo/Hydra" tape (1981) which was ilegally reissued by several labels which wrongly entitled them as this one. Synthesizers, radio transmissions, concrete noises and weird vocals are the elements used on this recording by M.B to create a parallel reality …

The brand new release of  Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.). Similar to his early experimental bionic – industrial masterpiece like The Plain Truth, Armaghedon, Endometrio and Carcinosi, this album presents eight decomposed tracks with slow, obscure and meditative music… Cold atmospheres and reverberating piano… Really one of Maurizio Bianchi best work to date!!! Dedicated to all the meditative people who is living in the environmental paradise.

Here at last is a deserved and “rightful” CD re-release of this fantastic collaboration created in 2007 by Maurizio Bianchi and Craig Hilton. Until now this recording was only made available in a very limited CD-R edition. Extremely dark atmospheres, restless and dramatic… Sharp masses of metallic noises cleave pulsating substrates of low frequencies, mixed with magmatic agglomerates of more processed sounds of an unrecognizable nature… Moments of stasis and apparent quietness… Handfuls of…

Storms of cosmic energy, boiling and gurgling electronic fluxes, sonic masses made of monolithic and impenetrable drones, visions of smoky afterdeath landscapes, scorching and infernal… A neverending tunnel with no way out, a sense of deep anguish, of desolation and resigned impotence that lead the dark journey from the beginning to the end of this hallucinatory path. The sound quality and the sharpness of details are absolutely insuperable, they will offer you a “wrapping” and emotionall…

Crashing, cascading sounds, like thunderous storms. A perfect example of industrial droning ambient. Releasing collaborations since 2006 this is the 5th work they've done together. An amazing album consisting of two long tracks dealing with Drone and Dark Ambient/ Noise.