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Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso is one of the most important scores in Piero Umiliani's lengthy career. He was an eclectic and internationally attentive artist, capable of genial expressions through jazz (I Soliti Ignoti), pop-funk (Baba Yaga, La Ragazza Fuoristrada), Western (Crisantemi Per Un Branco di carogne) and even electronic experimentation (such as his score for the unknown TV serial Il Mondo dei Romani, 1972).Director Luigi Scattini, whose partnership with Piero Umiliani was also a friendsh…

The movie "Sardegna", made €‹in 1972, is part of the 14 documentaries funded and sponsored by Esso,  who aimed to bring to the attention of the large  international audience the beautiful landscapes, the architecture and art of our wonderful  and unique country: Italy. In 1978, RAI broadcast the full series. The same thing happened in the U.S., Germany,  Australia, China and other networks of national importance. The series was distributed in  schools, in 35mm and 16mm. In 1983 the publica…

I’d already known Sergio Martino for some years, as his team produced another cult film by director Lucio Fulci, "Paura nella città dei morti viventi" (aka "City of the living dead") in 1980.  The following year, Sergio decided to produce a movie with a  compelling plot, a psychological thriller with horror elements. The film was set in Volterra  and its surrounding neighborhoods, which at one time were the political and social heart  of Etruscan society.  The main theme of the score is a piece …

In 1978 Roberto Faenza directed Forza Italia!, a ferocious satire on the power of the Italian Christian Democrat party covering thirty years of Italian political history. The film was withdrawn from the theatres on the day Aldo Moro, President of the Christian Democrats, was kidnapped, and remains banned for over 15 years. Aldo Moro being the one who will end his life recommending (in his handwritten memoirs found in the den of the Red Brigades in via Monte Nevoso in Milan) to see the film 'if o…

In 1963, when Ennio Morricone composed the music of "La fidanzata del bersagliere", he was only 34 years, but the signs of what would become, like in other previous works, are all there. And this "La fidanzata del bersagliere", is, as far as we can tell, the only job that Morricone has created for the playhouse so-called "light". At that moment, Ennio Morricone is best known and appreciated for the arrangements of some pop music albums of Edoardo Vianello, Luigi Tenco, Rita Pavone, Gianni Morand…

In May 1980 the Italian Radio and Television, RAI, put on air on the TV national network a program on the water, a  very hot topic. The proposal to RAI of that really interesting topic came by the talented director of documentaries Carlo Alberto Pinelli. Always very attentive to the socio-cultural issues, now Pinelli has got credits for over one hundred and twenty documentary-investigations. The shooting of "Il Pianeta d'Acqua" brought him to travel a good part of the world. Maestro Ennio Morric…

Cometa Music Publishing with this cd nr. 41 begins a new series of collection of original music tracks titled: SPECIAL THEME SERIES and the First proposed theme in this CD is  Unusual Grotesque  that means: UNUSUAL – is the contrast with the normal life of every days or the habits. GROTESQUE – is a tragicomic effect based on a desired disproportion between the elements of a particular dramatic moment. And who better than our great, incomparable, eclectic Maestro Ennio Morricone could inaugurate …

This soundtrack composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone is just as such intense as any other score composed by the Master. This music involves the audience so deeply inside the plot. It captures the viewers mind, and makes them to share in the drama from the first to the last shot of the movie. Maestro Morricone is not new to this kind of magic. If we close our eyes and we indulge in our memories, we will have the feeling of famous notes, such as those of Once Upon a Time in the West, Metti un…

The  film music composed by Maestro Piero Umiliani is very appropriate, the  orchestration is really good and the workmanship is excellent. The various musical atmospheres  accompanying the scenes are very live. They create the pathos that binds viewers and force  them to hold their breath for the duration of the film.

  Original soundtrack from the film directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1963.  

Opening further doors in the sprawling labyrinth of unreleased music by Polish composer Andrzej KorzyÅ„ski, Finders Keepers Records present the soundtrack to the 1977 Polish film Man Of Marble by ‘national filmmaker’ and long-term collaborator Andrzej Wajda. Presented for the first time ever on vinyl (featuring exclusive unreleased bonus tracks) this synthesiser fuelled soundtrack marks a distinct stylistic manoeuvre towards a unique brand of Polish cosmic disco, celebrating …

*** 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…

Outstanding fourth box, including dead stock find of some incredible original editions of the best background music 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 three boxes (containing his ethnic compositions, then his weird electronic music and the ambient ones), we are …

Mindblowing  first ever vinyl reissue of Ruth White’s dark experimental electronic masterpiece ‘7 Trumps From The Tarot And Pinion’. Originally issued in 1969 on Limelight and now available in an edition of 500 copies through French label Black Mass Rising, who many of you will know were responsible for reissuing Ruth White’s ‘Flowers of Evil’. If you were fortunate enough to score a copy of that record, then make some space on the shelf for its evil twin. This is proper holy grail stuff for his…

The final film in the Luciano Martino produced series of Edwige Fenech/George Hilton 1970s horror vehicles, The Case Of The Bloody Iris (released in Italy as What Are Those Strange Drops Of Blood Doing On Jennifer’s Body?) remains a key feature for Italian soundtrack fans and pre-cert VHS enthusiasts alike.  Comprising every facet of composer Bruno Nicolai’s versatile musical matrix, this suite of rich oblique paranoia pop makes its vinyl debut via Finders Keepers as an integral part of our dedi…

Finding the perfect axis between the likes of Goblin, Roubaix, Barry and Sorgini this bloodthirsty entrée to our Bruno Nicolai and Edwige Fenech series delivers a vinyl debut for the music of this lesser-known beat driven Sergio Martino Giallo horror. A real treat for the patient Euro VHS fans and the library collector alike this varied vinyl compact OST finally spreads its wings. As the third instalment of a devoted series of vinyl releases focussing on Italian composer Bruno Nicolai’s soundtra…

"Roman Polanski’s 1967 film ‘Dance Of The Vampires’ (as it was originally called, but more widely known by its re-named title ‘The Fearless Vampire Killers’, or ‘Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck’) is a camp horror cult classic. At the time the film was marketed as a ‘farce’, which overlooked the fact that this film is fantastically eerie. The major part played by the soundtrack in giving the film this effect cannot be understated, and the cold-as-snow production did much to enhance the b…

Finders Kreepers continue their 7″ series of vintage macabre film music with a volume dedicated to European vampire cinema with the two most notorious exponents of the horrotica genre at the helm. Although often put on the same platform the films of these two self-sufficient European filmmakers are in fact very different from each others celebrated efforts, having collaborated on just one occasion with Rollin directing a short dream sequence for Franco’s film Virgin Amongst The Living Dead (comp…

Limited LP pressing for The Cremator, as ongoing commitment to the lost music of the Czech New Wave cinema movement from the late 1960s and 1970s, Finders Keepers Records follow up our series of previously unreleased music to Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, Daisies, Saxana and The Little Mermaid with a short series of soundtracks for films by the country’s master of the macabre and the nation’s first point of call for freakish fairytales and hallucinogenic horror, Mr. Juraj Herz. As another lat…

Delectable quartet of Polish jazz pieces for the heppest cats, re-launched by Finders Keepers' Cacophonic sub-label. "A record of contended mythical existence amongst fans of Euro cinema and rare jazz for decades, this Polish only EP contains all four themes to Polanski's first-ever feature film Knife In The Water composed by unanimously beloved Polish pianist Krzysztof Komeda. Featuring Roman Dylag (Bruno Spoerri’s Teddy Bär) and a radical inclusion of a Swedish trumpeter, the sought after Bern…

A cherry-picked compendium of EDM prototypes circa 1956-1971 by Pierre Henry, Jean-Claude Vannier, Igor Wakhevitch, Henk Badings and more "The roots of Electronic Dance Music" (EDM) by definition. An unlikely combination of early recordings by international electronic and avant-garde composers as well as infrequent collaborators retrospectively unified by their commitment to the musical enhancement of 20th Century ballet and the evolution of modern dance. Presenting key exponents of the musique …

Born in 1936 in New York City, David Hess began his career when he recorded the original version of the Otis Blackwell composition "All Shook Up" under the stage name Dave Hill in 1956. The song became a Number 1 hit for Elvis Presley a year later and Hess became a songwriter at Shalimar Music. David went on to compose "Start Movin'" for Sal Mineo and "Rockin' Shoes" for the Ames Brothers. He continued to write songs for Elvis throughout the '50s and '60s, (including the Presley hit "I Got Stung…

Kye is proud to announce the release of Rules Of The Universe, a fully authorized anthology of archival audio work by the renowned Dutch artist Anton Heyboer (1924-2005). Heyboer's stature in visual arts is well known and internationally celebrated, but documentation of his audio work is scant and difficult to locate. Heyboer's only previous vinyl release - 1976's ill-fated 'She And She As One' LP (EMI) introduced a music so resolutely personal and uncommercial in nature that EMI ordered …

A record as weird and wild as the cover – filled with really tripped-out sounds from the obscure Flipper sound library in Italy! The music follows strongly in the best style of the rock-driven sounds from Italian horror films – but there's also a more compact approach too, with some funky elements that really make the whole thing sparkle – and a restrained approach that's far less indulgent than the prog styles that Italy was famous for at the time. The whole thing's great – a wicked mi…

Sicilian saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger Nino Rapicavoli is one of the unsung heroes in the world of Italian soundtracks of the 1970s. A musician with a solid background in jazz as well as a long-time member of Italy's state-owned RAI TV orchestra, Rapicavoli has only a handful of library albums to his name, but each is of the highest quality. This Divagazioni ('Ramblings') is probably the best of the lot, an album that mixes jazz, easy listening and a pinch of prog with that …

Commercially available for the first time, this 1970 library album by Alessandro Alessandroni is the only existing full-length recording of his extraordinary vocal group, I Cantori Moderni, an eight-to-sixteen person choir featuring Edda Dell'Orso, Giulia De Mutiis (Alessandroni's first wife), Gianna Spagnuolo, Augusto Giardino, and Franco Cosacchi, and highlighting, through twelve original themes by Alessandroni, the complex vocal harmonies of the legendary group that lent their voices to the a…

This is Tomorrow's Achievements, an exclusive Public Information foray into the Canadian Library institution, Parry Music. With access granted by founder John Parry, Public Information have selected twenty-five of their favorite electronic tracks, an early autumn heat-wave of perfect melody. Parry Music was founded in 1974 in Toronto by John Parry and Chris Stone. John was formerly a manager of revered UK library Chappell Music and Chris was a Canadian music consultant; both brought some familia…

LP Edition...from 1974. Amazing, underground concept Lp with musique fantastique behind spooky spoken word text / science fiction related narration. The music is superb, deep / gothic / weird and funky like the best J.P Massiera / William Sheller / Igor Wakhevitch productions. Strange arrangements and clever variations on a theme with lots of thudding hip hop style rock beats / fuzz distortions / Maledictus Sound style studio FX / filtered heavy breathing / electronics and other trippy instrumen…

Long deleted, originally released by Columbia Records on March 1970, “ Kokotsu / Ecstasy” is here re-released for the first time. Sonic-wise, the disc unleashes a whirlpool of Latin styled mondo -sexploitation sounds that get spiced up with feminine breathing and respiration sounds, moaning and hissing, igniting a maelstrom of assorted eroticism and sexual depravity. In all, it resembles a caged vixen engaged in sexual intercourse, hatching out cries, moans, sighs, words and other sounds such as…

Restocked: The divine music of Popol Vuh is inextricable from the Werner Herzog films it soundtracks. This lavish set includes five seminal film scores: Heart of Glass (1976), Aguirre (1972), Nosferatu (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987) in one lavish, beautiful box including a 98-page hardback book with rare photos and liner notes.Scoring Herzog's 'Aguirre', Popol Vuh, lead by Florian Fricke, established a longstanding relationship with the director, providing him with a mileston…

We continue releasing scores dedicated to the films of Joe D'Amato, and you know when the director pairs up with Nico Fidenco it's surely an ace in the hole. This particular soundtrack is from one of the popular director's Caribbean movies, Sesso nero, shot in 1980 in Santo Domingo and starring Mark Shannon, Annj Goren and George Eastman. The alchemy had been already experimented with and duly tested - the Maestro had already proven to be well-inspired by isles, sun, beautiful women and the dire…

If we consider the artistic spectrum of a composer such as Nico Fidenco , we can say only now that we examined it fully thank to the score of Eros perversion (Ron Wertheim 1979, aka William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night), the first erotic musical ever done. It's surely the taste of such a skilled musician as Nico Fidenco the key to rightly interpret that particular way of expressing eros through images. So in the middle of the dance explosion, of the great disco funky music we are gifted with the …

CFSoundtracks and Beat Records are pleased to release on CD for the first absolute time two original soundtracks for "...scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?" directed in 1971 by Mino Guerrini starring Franco Franchi e Ciccio Ingrassia, Lino Banfi, Karin Schubert. The film was shot almost entirely in the Primavalle area of Rome in 1971. Musically, Lallo Gori wrote a score with the typical sounds of that period with shake passages, funny motifs and pleasant swing fugatos where Nora Orlandi's 4+4 choir…

Cabum Edizioni, Cf Soundtracks, Beat Records proudly present for the first time on CD from first-generation stereo album master tapes vaulted in Cabum archives in pristine conditions “La Chiave”, a film by Tinto Brass. Music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone. “La Chiave” (aka “The Key” – “La clè” – “Der Schlüssel”) is an erotic movie directed by Tinto Brass in 1983. Screenplay by Tinto Brass based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Starring Stefania Sandrelli, Frank Finlay…

This CD contains the world premiere complete recordings of two very nice scores by composer Ruggero Cini for the 1967/1968 action/spy movies “I Fantastici 3 Supermen” (aka “The Three Fantastic Supermen” – “Die Drei Supermanner Raumen Auf” – “Les Trois Fantastiques Supermen”) directed in 1967 by Gianfranco Parolini (aka Frank Kramer) and starring Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Nick Jordan, Gloria Paul, Sal Borgese and “Tre Supermen A Tokyo” (aka “Drei Tolle Kerle” – “3 Supermen À Tokyo”) directed in …

Pentamusic gets back on the trail of unreleased scores by selecting a beautiful soundtrack by Maestro Stelvio Cipriani from his thriller canon of the 70s, Qualcuno Ha Visto Uccidere, directed by Rafael Romero Marchant and starred Ray Milland, Sylvia Koscina and Ramiro Oliveros. The plot divides the movie in two halves, the first in which we see the commission of a violent crime, and in the second, an escalation of events that turn the movie into a real action movie.In 1973, Stelvio Cipriani - co…

Pentamusic is proud to present for the first absolute time on CD the original soundtrack by Armando Trovajoli for the movie ''Lovemaker – L'uomo per fare l'amore'' an Italian-German co-production directed in 1969 by Ugo Liberatore and starring Antonio Sabato, Doris Kunstmann, Christiane Krüger, Roger Fritz, Peter Kraus. Giorgio moves to Germany for work, but meets the hostility and contempt of the Germans. He then decides to avenge himself in his own way, seducing more women until the meeting wi…

This new release in Gdm’s 44 series features a soundtrack that’s been absent from the market for some time: the score for the episodic film La domenica specialmente , featuring the music of two-time Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone (episodes “Il cane blu,” “La neve di fuoco” and “La domenica specialmente”) and Andrea Guerra ("Le chiese di legno").The episodic nature of the film allowed the Maestro to create a diverse score, with sounds ranging from melancholic to playful, intimate to romantic, all i…

Two early scores by Ennio Morricone for two debut films. I basilischi is the first feature by Lina Wertmüller (1963); Prima della rivoluzione was written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1964, with Francesco Barilli and Adriana Asti. Tracks 1 and 5 of I basilischi first appeared on an RCA 45. Remastered edition from GDM, limited to 300 copies.

Bruno Nicolai's score for 100.000 dollari per Ringo, the 1965 western directed by Alberto De Martino. Nicolai composed and conducted the music himself. Sixteen tracks, 41 minutes, released by Edipan, the label founded by Nicolai.