Music from Italy

*100 copies limited edition* A driving Italian soundtrack from the height of the cop/crime years – done with really full arrangements by Franco Micalizzi, in a way that easily rivals some of the best American work of the genre in the 70s! This score from 1976 (here reissued on wax) features an amazing band, spacey grooves, some jazz atmospheres, timeless brass-crescendos, the charm of '70s funk and the untameable talent of the maestro! Most of the orchestrations are quite bold – upbeat rhythms w…

Tip! 17 Re is the third studio album by Italian New Wave band Litfiba, released by I.R.A. Records in December 1986. Although little known outside Italy, It is still considered by many to be Litfiba's stylistic masterpiece. It is part, with the previous Desaparecido (1985) and the following Litfiba 3 (1988), of the so-called "trilogy of power".Initially released as a double album (in France it was released as a single), 17 Re is distinguished by the presence of four sides and sixteen tracks, all …

Five years after his first quartet release “Kora” (Aut Records, 2021), Giacomo Zanus returns with a new album titled “wandering away is safer than getting lost on your own.” Composed and produced by the italian guitarist, “wandering away…” is a collection of little stories — postcards and travel notes that evoke faces, places and sensations to immerse oneself in, get lost in and ultimately rediscover. Emblematic figures such as Calvino’s silent Palomar — almost a manifesto for the entire project…

Come un vecchio incensiere all’alba di un villaggio deserto is Alan Sorrenti’s second album, released in 1973 by Harvest Records. This album marks an evolution in his musical exploration, continuing the experimentation begun with his previous album "Aria" and solidifying his position in the Italian progressive rock scene. The centerpiece of the album is the lengthy suite that gives the record its title, a track lasting over twenty minutes that explores psychedelic, jazz, and folk sounds. The com…

The Prog Rock Italia Series continues with the reissue of Fragments Of Light, the debut album by Sensations’ Fix, a musical project by Franco Falsini, an eclectic musician from Tuscany who has always been dedicated to exploration and electronic experimentation. After moving to England and the United States to broaden his artistic horizons, Falsini returned to Italy in the early 1970s and formed the trio with Richard Ursillo and Keith Edwards, both of American origin. Originally released in 1974,…

The Prog Rock Italia Series continues with the reissue of Finest Finger, the fourth album by Sensations’ Fix, a musical project led by Franco Falsini of Tuscany, an eclectic musician constantly focused on exploration and electronic experimentation. The band immediately stands out for the international scope of its compositions, not only for the use of the English language but above all for its continuous musical exploration: Sensations’ Fix distinguishes itself on the Italian progressive scene t…

One of the most iconic Italian library music albums ever, Woman’s Colours by the Giancarlo Barigozzi Group (with Sergio Farina and Oscar Rocchi) emerged from Milan’s vibrant studio scene. Originally released in 1974 under the supervision of Fabio Fabor, it’s a refined concept work blending jazz-funk, jazz-rock, bossa nova and exotica, featuring Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, fuzz guitars and expressive flutes, balancing groove and elegance. Over time it has attained cult status, now regarded as a cor…

Moby Dick were a fierce, English-singing rock band born in Naples in 1968, driven by zero compromises, and a motto that said it all: “no drugs, no bullshit—just music.”Blending Mediterranean fire with a hard-rock sound deeply inspired by Led Zeppelin, they carved out a reputation on the Italian live circuit before cutting a now-legendary, long-lost album in London in 1973. Formed in the Vomero district of Naples by  guitarist Toni Di Mauro and bassist Enzo Petrone, the band came together with dr…

"Ys" was nothing less than a unique masterpiece of the golden age of Italian progressive rock. Coming from the town of Naples, Balletto di Bronzo had already published in 1970 their debut "Sirio 2222", an ideal bridge among beat, prog and hard rock, when in '71 they were joined by keyboardist Gianni Leone, who completely revolutionized the sound of the band.The following year "YS" fell like a bolt from the blue on the Italian music scene. The songwriting is always unsettling, extremely intricate…

On Ferrum Sidereum, Zu stretch their jazz‑metal DNA into an 80‑minute instrumental odyssey: ritualistic riffs, industrial grit and prog‑honed structures orbit around a dense, meteoric core that feels both meticulously engineered and violently alive.

A blazing chapter of Zu’s early history returns. Originally released in 2002, Igneo is back in print.

First album of over-the-top harsh psychedelic noise influenced by C.C.C.C. and Incapacitans by Cristiano Renzoni's project, released on his own Urashima in 2009 in an edition of hand-numbered 114 copies.

Beautiful wooden box released by Urashima in 2018 in an edition of numbered 199 copies re-issuing on 4 CD's nine albums spanning from 1993 to 1996 by Marco Corbelli's morbid electronic music project with "violent and cold analogue electronic sounds, and my own voice".

*36 copies limited edition* Maurizio Bianchi amassed pre-transposed sounds together with hertzian waves; no electronics were utilized.

*30 copies limited edition* The CDr is contained in a black cardboard envelope measuring 13x13 cm. about (250 grams thick) with 3 stickers on the front. The CDr has a small sticker, and inside the envelope there is an insert in the format of a mini poster of the dimensions of 30x30 cm. open and 10x10 cm. closed, approximately (paper 190 gr. thick). Materials created for live-set at Signal Reload Festival, 14th September 2025.

*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 photocopied insert in the format of a mini poster of the dimensions of 20x40 cm. open and 10x10 cm. closed, approximately (paper 80 gr. thick).The only difference in this reissue is the picture on front sticker that is a negative of the first edition

Evocative dark ambient album by two Italian musicians with several collaborations behind (M.B., Controlled Bleeding, Lasse Marhaug, KK Null, Teho Teardo, John Duncan, etc.) co-released by five labels in 2015.

1992 esoteric industrial debut EP on Minus Habens made in collaboration with Sigillum S. With insert.

First CD-only album with a successful industrial / thrash metal / power electronics mix made in collaboration with Sigillum S and released by Minus Habens in 1993.

First edition of the first cassette album by one of the earliest post-industrial Italian projects also known as Laxative Souls, privately released in 1982 in an edition of 100 numbered copies. With insert.