★Quartet Records
Il Bidone (Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Quartet Records presents a greatly expanded CD of an early Nino Rota/Federico Fellini collaboration.Coming hot off the heels of La Strada, Fellini’s Il Bidone (1955), starring Broderick Crawford, was considerably less of a hit than its predecessor. The film tells the story of a trio of con men who are each faced with the consequences of their unlawful action. After a series of humiliating and humbling encounters, former members of the gang try to change their ways—but not all of them will surviv…
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Capitol Records, presents the premiere CD edition of renowned British composer Ed Welch’s classy score for the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps.Famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935, the first adaptation of John Buchan’s classic thriller novel actually strayed far away from its source material. Directed by Don Sharp, the 1978 version starring Robert Powell as Richard Hannay follows the novel more closely, telling the story of an unwitting enginee…
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Beat Records, reissues fan-favorite experimental Giuliano Sorgini score for Jordi Grau’s masterpiece The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue. An early Euro-zombie movie set in England follows the investigation into an attack of the undead feasting on human flesh. As opposed to a virus or other biological phenomena, this story reveals that untested farming equipment is responsible for these inhuman abominations. Best known for its groundbreaking gory effect…
Incubo Sulla Città Contaminata
*Limited edition of 500 copies.* Quartet Records, in collaboration with Cinevox Records, reissues classic Stelvio Cipriani score for Umberto Lenzi’s 1980 cult horror plague film Incubo Sulla Citta’ Contaminata (aka Nightmare City, aka La Invasión De Los Zombies Atómicos) Though Lenzi objected to calling this movie a zombie flick, this Spanish-Italian-Mexican co-production tried to ride the wave of Z-flicks with a new twist. Instead of revived dead, these zombies are the result of radiation poiso…
Virus (Apocalipsis Canibal)
*Limited edition of 500 copies.* Quartet Records, in collaboration with Cinevox Records, presents the premiere release of the soundtrack to Bruno Mattei’s 1980 iconic zombie film Virus (aka Virus, L’inferno Dei Morti Viventi, aka Apocalipsis Caníbal, aka Hell Of The Living Dead), which compiles together both library music and an original score composed by Gianni Dell’Orso.
Virus largely takes place in Papua New Guinea, as a group of mercenaries are sent to resolve an imminent zombie outbreak. Th…
Così Dolce... Così Perversa
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Sermi Film Edizioni Musicali and Sonor Music Editions, presents a remastered and expanded CD edition of Riz Ortolani’s erotic thriller score for Umberto Lenzi’s Così Dolce… Così Perversa. In 1969/1970, Umberto Lenzi helmed a trilogy of three giallo thrillers, all starring American-born actress Carroll Baker. The middle film of the trilogy, Così dolce… Così Perversa (aka So Sweet, So Perverse) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a man who escapes his icy marriag…
Orgasmo - Paranoia
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Beat Records, presents a premiere CD edition of classic Piero Umiliani scores for Umberto Lenzi’s double-bill Orgasmo and Paranoia. In 1969/1970, Umberto Lenzi helmed a trilogy of three giallo thrillers, all starring American- born actress Carroll Baker. The first film in the trilogy is Orgasmo (entitled Paranoia in the USA, which has always caused confusion between the two films), which stars Baker as a woman who takes in the troublesome young driver Lou C…
Maddalena
Quartet Records presents a 50th-anniversary remastered edition of the innovative, cult-classic score by Ennio Morricone, a key work which launched one of the composer’s best known themes. Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz in 1971, Maddalena is a one-off venture of the Polish director into the territory of Italian cinema. Starring Lisa Gastoni as the title character and Eric Woofe as the priest whose faith she tests, the movie is an erotic drama focused on poetic sex scenes, psychedelic flashbacks …
Shake & Soda
*Limited edition of 500 units.* Quartet Records is proud to celebrate the centenary of one of the most iconic, elegant and individual voices of Italian cinema for more than four decades: the one and only Piero Piccioni. Shake And Soda is a super-groovy journey to the maestro’s lounge-music side, always fresh, classy, risky and surprising in its form and development. From soft to free jazz, from shake to bossa, from calypso to bebop, from swing to reggae… Selections from some of his most famous a…
Il Dio Sotto La Pelle
**300 copies** Quartet Records presents an expanded 2-CD release of Piero Piccioni’s classic score for the 1974 obscure mondo documentary Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, directed by Folco Quilici, Carlo Alberto Pinelli and Bruno Modugno.Piccioni wrote a varied and colorful score packed with rich vibes ranging from exotic to progressive rock, with memorable percussion work and hypnotic organ effects. Orchestrated and conducted by the composer, the score features contributions by Edda Dell’Orso, the choir …
Colpo Rovente
Tip! * 350 copies * Quartet Records presents an expanded, fully restored edition of cult Piero Piccioni score for the 1970 psychedelic thriller Colpo Rovente. Production-designer–turned-director Piero Zu made this bizarre lm set in the seedy underbelly of O -Broadway productions, Hippie communities, S&M bars and bike gangs. The story follows a serial killer on the loose and an investigator looking into an heiress’ kidnapping. With the help of editor Franco Arcalli, the movie was recon gured int…
Il gatto a nove code
* 50th anniversary edition, completely rebuilt and mastered by Chris Malone from first-generation master tapes* The film is about a newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist who try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company’s top-secret experimental research projects; in doing so they become targets of the killer. Ennio Morricone can be considered the inventor of the giallo sound, as he was the inventor of the Spaghetti Western sound or the political-cinema so…
Nella Stretta Morsa Del Ragno
* In process of stocking * Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM, presents the 50th-anniversary complete edition of the haunting, innovative score composed by Riz Ortolani for Antonio Margheriti’s stylish Italian gothic horror Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno (1971), starring Anthony Franciosa and Michéle Mercier, with Klaus Kinski in the role of Edgar Allan Poe!
The film was a remake of a previous horror classic, Danza Macabra, also directed by Margheriti in 1964, and also scored by Ortolani…
Vergogna Schifosi
Quartet Records and Carosello Edizioni Musicali present an expanded, completely remastered edition of Ennio Morricone’s cult score for Vergogna Schifosi (1969). Directed by Mauro Severino, the film is about a misstep from the past that comes back to haunt three young perpetrators from Milan with vengeance on its mind. Years after getting away with murder, they suddenly receive an incriminating photo, accompanied by a request for money. Despite their quick payment, they keep getting new messages…
Femmine Insaziabili
Quartet Records, Carosello Edizioni Musicali and Beat Records present an ultimate 2-CD expanded edition of Bruno Nicolai’s cult score Femmine Insaziabili. Directed by Alberto de Martino, the film is about a journalist who is hot on the trail of investigating his friend’s mysterious death in a car accident. The journey takes him to funerals, orgies and interviews with some of the most beautiful women of Italian cinema (such as Luciana Paluzzi and Romina Power), all of whom have flashbacks to sex…
Midnight Cowboy
** Edition of 500 ** Pressed on 180 GM Audiophile Black Vinyl. Hard Tip-On Gatefold Sleeve. Official vinyl reissue of the iconic Capitol album remixed from the original multi-tracks masters. Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Chris Malone. Also includes a separate 4-page insert with authoritative in-depth liner notes by Jon BurlingameQuartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Capitol Records, Universal Music Enterprises and the Phil Ramone estate, present the official LP reissue of…
Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the most important neo-realist movies ever filmed in Italy, Quartet Records proudly presents Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers), a 2-CD set featuring for the first time the complete original score of the landmark collaboration between Luchino Visconti and Nino Rota. The film finds the young Rocco (Alain Delon), his mother and three siblings moving from the South to Milan, hoping to reunite the family with the eldest brother. However, div…
La Dolce Vita
To celebrate our 300th release, Quartet Records is proud to present, in collaboration with Gruppo Sugar, a mammoth 2-CD set presenting for the first time ever Nino Rota’s complete original score for Federico Fellini’s masterpiece La Dolce Vita. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée and Walter Garrone, La Dolce Vita is a 1960 Italian drama that follows Marcello Rubini (Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through th…
La Notte Dell'Ultimo Giorno / Processo Per Direttissima
Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents the premiere presentation of two previously unreleased Stelvio Cipriani groovy scores, both focused on dramas taking place in the Years of Lead (a period of social and political turmoil in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s). Adimaro Sala’s LA NOTTE La Notte Dell'Ultimo Giorno (1974) chronicles the making of a fictional thesis film entitled La Fiammata as director Beppe Banti (Tony Kendall) tries to realize his vision without com…
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
** Edition of 500. Pressed on 180 GM Black Vinyl Specially Mastered for Vinyl by Chris Malone ** Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, limited-edition reissue of the electrifying funk/jazz/groove masterpiece score by David Shire (The Conversation, All the President's Men, Retrun to Oz, Zodiac) for Joseph Sargent’s famous classic urban thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo.
Based on the …