La Petite Fenetre
Jacqueline Thibault (Laurence Vanay) often worked for other artists at the legendary Château d’Hérouville studio as arranger, keyboardist, co-composer, and assistant sound engineer. Between sessions she sometimes managed to record her own music. Several years after her two acknowledged masterpieces, “Galaxies” and “Evening Colours,” she was able to bring together the tracks for “La Petite Fenêtre” (The Little Window). As the 1970’s ended, trouble with the Château finances meant that again it was…
Temi Ritmici e Dinamici
**CD version** If you are among those who own the two previous Braen's Machine LPs, Underground and Quarta pagina, you're probably already well aware of one of Italian library music best kept secrets, that is the real identities of those hiding behind the pseudonyms Braen and Gisteri. These were the monikers of Alessandro Alessandroni and Oronzo De Filippi, directed by Piero Umiliani and his record label Liuto. With Temi ritmici e dinamici (Rhythmic and dynamic themes) the plot thickens and give…
Catch Me Daddy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"The crystal in men's heads / Blackened and fell to pieces. / The valleys went out. / The moorlands broke loose" --from "Heptonstall Old Church" by Ted Hughes. So begins Catch Me Daddy (2014), the award-winning feature film directed by Daniel Wolfe and written by Wolfe and his brother Matthew. The film's score consists of beautiful and bleak wind-ravaged music from Matthew Watson (aka Matthew Wolfe) and Daniel Thomas Freeman (whose 2011 debut album The Beauty of Doubting Yourself Norman Record…
Style
**CD edition** Awesome library, 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. Sweet keyboards galore‚ a wonderful sound library set from the Italian scene of the '70s‚ filled with Fender Rhodes throughout! The tunes are a mix of funky and mellower numbers, but all sport these really great keyboard lines up top‚ always rhythmic, even when moving slow‚ and with this sexy sparkle that's right…
Man In Space With Sounds
Man In Space With Sounds is one of those legendary LPs many have heard about but few have ever actually heard or seen. A rare souvenir of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, this music served as the soundtrack to a ride called the Bubbleator, which transported fair visitors through an overview of the future, a technological utopia where science and space travel promised solutions to all of humanity’s plights. Needless to say, that future never arrived and this music (actually recorded in the early 19…
Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind By
Psych LP from 1968 by the Love Machine, “Electronic Music to Blow Your Mind By!!!” – and trust me, it can be done – on the Design label. One of the harder-to-find exploito-psych albums with an absolutely psychedelic cover. Like all these studio cash-in albums, you need to approach this one in the right state of mind, and by that I mean altered. But the great thing about these budget albums is that someone behind the controls seems to be trying out all the latest psychedelic effects – stereo pann…
D.O.C.
Issued alongside the compilation Musiche de Teisco, the Dual Planet label offers another piece of the mysterious cosmic puzzle of electronic library maverick Teisco. Fast forward several years to D.O.C, a library recording released under his new tag Rimauri, Here, you can hear how Teisco / Rimauri has refined the synthetic vision he started to work on with his earlier recording Dossier Special. This set conjures up instant thoughts of vintage computer game soundtracks or even a parallel with tha…
Servizio dall'Oriente (1971)
Lovely 1971 library re-release, a survey for a reading of Malaysian stories (describing in an exciting way the charm, mystery and exoticism of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and China), with an overall elegant background of oriental music that blends with decidedly Western sounds, often experimental, giving life to a fascinating and unforgettable jazzy musical texture. The characteristic of the topics, which are sometimes sweet and melancholy, or descriptive, is to contain slow sounds that a…
Meeting of the Spirits
A small, beautifully strange artefact: a 7" single bringing together two figures from different worlds and decades. On one side, the Berlin techno producer Stefan Goldmann reworks "Theme From Solis Ardor", a piece originally composed by Soviet electronic music pioneer Sergey Rodionov for Vladimir Naumov's 1988 film of the same name. On the other, Rodionov returns the gesture, covering Goldmann's "The Bribe", a track that first appeared on his Lunatic Fringe 12" for Macro.
Rodionov is among the m…