Equinox
** Ltd. 300 copies, remastered edition, audiophile pressing. Perfect replica of the original packaging, newly remastered for optimal sound. ** "Equinox", Gianni Marchetti's 1977 twin album of "Solstitium", released in a handful of promo copies by RCA in their renowned "Original Cast" series, takes us on a journey through the author's groovier and wilder temperament, feeling as fresh and surprising today as the day it was made, offering immediate understanding of the reasons why it has remained o…
Solstitium
** Ltd. 300 copies, remastered edition, audiophile pressing. Perfect replica of the original packaging, newly remastered for optimal sound. ** The first-ever reissue of Gianni Marchetti's 1978 LP "Solstitium", released as part of RCA's venerable "Original Cast" series in a handful of promo copies only, sits among the most rare and enigmatic artifacts of Italian library music, it is heralded by collectors as one of the greatest free-standing gestures in the entire genre.Long coveted by diggers, s…
¿Qué He Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto!
Quartet Records, in collaboration with El Deseo, celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pedro Almodóvar’s iconic classic film ¿Qué He Hecho Yo Para Merecer Esto! (aka What I Have Done To Done To Deserve This?), one of his most celebrated and beloved films, with the premiere edition of the original soundtrack composed by Bernardo Bonezzi for the film.
Bernardo Bonezzi was only 19 years old when he composed and orchestrated the music for this film, which was also his first film score and the beginning…
Addio Zio Tom
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered and expanded edition of Riz Ortolani’s famous score for the shocking and successful mondo movie Addio Zio Tom, directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi in 1971.
This epic re-creation of the atrocities of the American slave trade was both condemned as depraved exploitation and hailed as an unprecedented cry of black anguish and rage. The Detroit Chronicle hailed it as “a gra…
Il Deserto Dei Tartari
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Sony EMI Italia, presents a completely revised, restored and remastered edition of The Desert Of The Tartars, Ennio Morricone’s masterpiece for the no less masterful film by Valerio Zurlini from 1976.
Co-produced between Italy, France, Germany and Spain, the film features a large cast of European film stars that includes Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giulianno Gemma, Helmut Griem, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Philippe Noiret, Max Von Sydow and…
Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I
Shidaiqu literally means "songs of the era", a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural merging that would go on to shape a golden age of Chinese popular song & film in the pre-communism interwar period.
Waiting for Your Return brings together a wide…
Tre colonne in Cronaca
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Finross, presents a remastered reissue of the expanded edition of Tre Colonne In Cronaca, one of the great Ennio Morricone efforts of the early ’90s for the film of Carlo Vanzina, starring Gian Maria Volontè. The film is a chronicle of the dark maneuvers made by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Muslim terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A brave journalist intends to …
Confessione di un commissario di Polizia...
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a remastered and expanded edition of Riz Ortolani’s masterful score for the Damiano Damiani thriller Confessione Di Un Commissario Di Polizia Al Procuratore Della Repubblica (aka Confessions Of A Police Captain), starring Franco Nero and Martin Balsam. This was one of the first films about the Mafia in which the fight is hopeless because “the polyp’s feelers” reach everything and everybody. A police inspec…
The Polydor Years
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Enterprises, presents a 3-CD box set consisting of the three legendary albums that John Barry recorded for Polydor Records between 1972 and 1976, as well as some singles and curiosities. These beautifully designed albums contain some of the composer’s best-known themes, newly arranged and performed, and—in the case of Americans—an original musical work for jazz soloists and orchestra.
Ahead of his first public appearance conducting a symphon…
Playgirl '70
*350 copies limited edition* Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Sony EMI Music Italy, presents the premiere vinyl edition of the iconic Piero Piccioni score for Playgirl ’70, a dramatic-erotic vehicle directed by Federico Chentrens, starring Ira Von Fürstenberg, Luciana Paluzzi and Jean Sobieski. The film is about Jane, a young and fascinating model who participates in a cruise with some representatives of a rich and corrupt world connected to the cinema business. Jane’s beauty bring…
Séance On A Wet Afternoon
Quartet Records present the vinyl edition of its brand-new recording of John Barry’s complete score for Séance On A Wet Afternoon (1964), a major work previously missing from the composer’s discography. It was one of his masterpieces for Bryan Forbes that, unfortunately, remained unreleased due to the absence of master tapes. Composed for a small ensemble featuring vibrant percussion and woodwinds, it’s a mysterious, suggestive, unsettling score, reaching its culmination in the long rescue seque…
Akasaka Soul Funk 1969-1977
At the start of the 60s, a new wave of gospel-influenced jazz started to emerge, with hits such as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' "Moanin'" and Cannonball Adderley's "Work Song" epitomizing this evolution in the genre. The terms "soul jazz" and "funky jazz" were coined as a way to describe this new sound that was making an impact in the US and also on the other sides of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
In 1964, Ray Charles made his first visit to Japan. Then, in 1968, Martha & The Vandellas a…
Friday Night
Livy Ekemezie’s Friday Night is widely recognised by DJs and afro-funk aficionados as a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) grail record. It is one of those rare dance music albums that sounds like a record of its’ time but also has a timeless quality that makes each listen an immensely rewarding experience. Fueled by teen spirit, every track slaps leaving little or no opportunity to skip. The song concepts circle around sweaty, afropolitan nightly excursions into the nightclubs of Aba, Port Harcou…
Praise Poems Volume 10 (A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s)
Watch out! You are holding the 125th (one-hundred-and-twenty fifth!) album on Tramp Records in your hands! We are honored to celebrate this impressive anniversary with the tenth volume in the Praise Poems series. This time, too, we go on a journey to discover previously unheard regions of jazz, folk and AOR from the 1970s and 80s. Praise Poems Vol.10 presents sixteen (almost) forgotten rare groove gems, all released between the years 1970 and 1984. One of the many highlights is the opening track…
L'Onorata Famiglia (Uccidere È Cosa Nostra)
Huge Tip! Experience the dramatic pulse of Italian crime cinema with the first-ever vinyl reissue of Bruno Nicolai’s iconic soundtrack for "L’Onorata Famiglia (Uccidere È Cosa Nostra)", the 1973 masterpiece directed by Tonino Ricci.
Renowned for his prolific work in Italian film scores, Nicolai blends atmospheric jazz-rock, brooding fusion, and haunting melodies to perfectly capture the tension and intrigue of the era’s mafia-centric storytelling. This long-overdue release brings new life to the…
Gwendoline
Gwendoline (1984) is an American adventure-fantasy thriller directed by Just Jaeckin. The story follows a beautiful young woman (played by Tawny Kitaen) who travels to an exotic and dangerous land in search of her missing father. Accompanied by her loyal friend Beth and a mercenary named Willard (Brent Huff), Gwendoline's journey takes her into the mysterious and perilous Land of the Yik-Yak. Along the journey, they encounter cannibals, a tribe of Amazonian warriors, and other classic perils of …
Contamination
2025 repress. “Contamination” was released in 1980 as a soundtrack for the eponymous horror/science fiction film, during what probably was the most prolific period in Goblin’s career, even if the band had already been abandoned by guitarist Massimo Morante and keyboardist Claudio Simonetti. Unkonwn by most listeners, it’s a release that deserves more attention, since it shows a wide range of music styles (Jazz, funk, rock, electronic) and once again Goblin’s ability in writing film scores.
Roller
*2025 reissue* Roller was the second record for Goblin, originally released in 1976, just after the successful score of Profondo Rosso, and is one of the very few Goblin records that was not intended to be a soundtrack. By many considered their best effort, in Roller the band develops their dark, hypnotic and totally instrumental sound, but with an always vivacious and dynamic edge. The record also features new members Agostino Marangolo (from Flea) and Massimo Guarini.An undisputed masterpiece…
Effroyables Jardins
A Colourful Storm presents Effroyables Jardins, a soundtrack composed by Zbigniew Preisner for Jean Becker’s eponymous film in December 2002. Given limited distribution at the time, the soundtrack’s lustre has only strengthened over the past two decades, and it can now be considered a forgotten gem of contemporary chamber composition. For us, it’s simply another understated triumph in Preisner's impeccable oeuvre.
Born in post-war Poland in the southern city of Bielsko-Biała, Zbigniew Preisner’s…
Disco Arabica
After 10 years from the release of the succesful "Obscure Cuts: Italian Arabic Disco", the mighty Beppe Loda is back with a new EP containing top notch cuts of finely chosen Middle-Eastern-influenced Italian obscure gems from the golden era of disco music. Step on the magical carpet and fly high with this new amazing vinyl by the legendary Beppe Loda.