Library Selects
The Diamonds Four
Big Tip! The story of The Diamonds Four has the kind of archival complexity that serious collectors live for. Mario Molino - classical guitarist, jazz musician, and one of the more versatile and elusive figures in Italian library music - first released this session on the obscure B.M.P. imprint in the early 1970s, in a pressing so limited it barely registered. It later surfaced again on the Music Scene label under a different title, with different track names, credited to the pseudonym Luigi Fer…
Sfere Luminose
Huge Tip! Sfere Luminose is a rare and breathtaking masterpiece that stands as a pinnacle of Italian Library music. Featuring the mesmerizing vocals of Nora Orlandi and the legendary jazz drumming of Franco Tonani, this album is an essential gem from the cult label Record TV - Firmamento, a name revered for iconic releases from the late 1960s to early 1970s. The album is produced by maestros Giancarlo Gazzani and Roby Poitevin, with contributions from the acclaimed studio group I Marc 4 and Ales…
Aquarium Sounds
A promo-only release in 1979, pressed in an edition so small it effectively never existed - Filippo Trecca's Aquarium Sounds spent four decades as a ghost record, known mostly by rumour. Sonor Music Editions' reissue is its first proper appearance on vinyl since the original pressing, and the first time it has ever been available digitally.
The album is, in reality, two things at once. Eight of its ten tracks served as the score for Così Per Gioco, a 1979 TV giallo series directed by Leonardo Co…
Guerra e Distruzione
Huge Tip! Dive into the evocative soundscapes of the past with the first ever vinyl reissue of Piero Umiliani's 1972 library masterpiece, "Guerra E Distruzione." Known for his innovative and genre-defying compositions, Umiliani's work on this album encapsulates the raw emotions and tumultuous energies of war and destruction through a unique blend of orchestral finesse and experimental brilliance.
This exclusive reissue has been remastered for vinyl by Davide "Bassi Maestro" Bassi to capture the …
New York City
The discography of the phantom Gruppo Sound exceeds over thirty titles published in an undefined time frame between the Eighties and the Nineties. However, there is very little information about this curious pseudonym. it is possible to find a library music album by Gruppo Sound inside the Canopo, Deneb, Flower, Monosound Records and Teams catalogues, all managed by Flipper Music publishing group, but both the creators and the musicians have never been the same. Gruppo Sound is only a collective…
Polarlys
A landmark, of sorts. Polarlys is the first original release in the catalog of Musica Per Immagini - a label built on excavating the buried archives of Italian library and film music now turning, for the first time, toward the present. The choice of artist is telling. Heinrich Dressel is the alias of Valerio Lombardozzi, a Roman composer and producer who has spent over two decades building one of the most coherent and quietly influential bodies of work in Italian electronic music. Co-founder of …
C 364 - Antico E Moderno
Following our reissue of Silvano Chimenti's classic "Disco Music", we're happy to delve back into the Usignolo catalog with the reissue of C 364, one of the most iconic releases of the series, the incredible "Antico E Moderno" by Mario Molino. Bringing some of the most eccentric, chaotic and spaced out vibes you could hear in the mid 70's, Molino's mind bending arrangements are timeless classics, still standing the test of time and showing how he was way ahead of his time. Literally translating …
Telegiornale
We're back digging through Flipper's legendary catalog, more precisely in the Octopus Records section, and after bringing back Alessandroni's "Storie Di Guerra" here is the return of Amedeo Tommasi's Telegiornale", released under his Atmo alias. The album opens with a cinematic and suspenseful overture that immediately draws the listener into its world. Tommasi's virtuosic piano playing takes center stage throughout the album, with his nimble fingers crafting intricate melodies that are both ev…
La Settima Donna
“La Settima Donna” (1978), also known as “The Last House On The Beach”, is a disturbing thriller directed by Franco Prosperi and set in a secluded cottage overlooking the Tyrrhenian sea, starring Florinda Bolkan, in the role of Sister Cristina, governess of five female students on a short vacation, rehearsing their Shakesperean end-of-year play. The unfortunate inhabitants of the house became soon hostages of three vicious criminals looking for a hiding place after a bank robbery, but the psycho…
Temi Descrittivi Per Piccolo Complesso
Originally released in 1976 as part of the "Background Music" series on Piero Umiliani's own Liuto Records, "Temi Descrittivi Per Piccolo Complesso" is a real gem in the maestro's vast and and intricate catalogue. Flutes and horns alternate with pianofender to create some magical, sweet and intimate atmospheres, crafting an abstract and mysterious soundscape that could reminisce of medieval times as much as some distant galaxies. We are happy to bring back "Temi Descrittivi Per Piccolo Complesso…
Alchemy In Jazz
Besides being a leading session musician in Milan's jazz scene between the 60s and 90s, Italian pianist Oscar Rocchi created a number of exquisite library albums in the pop-jazz genre. These include among others "Erbe Selvatiche", "Pop-Paraphrenia" and "Woman's Colours" (the latter co-written with his friend Giancarlo Barigozzi) as well as "Alchemy in Jazz", which is now available in digital format for the first time ever. Originally released on Ring, an imprint of Edizioni Minstrel, the album w…
Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta
Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta (aka. Blazing Magnum: Strange Shadows In An Empty Room) is a cop movie directed in year 1976 by Alberto De Martino and starring Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau, Tisa Farrow, and Gayle Hunnicutt. It was co-produced by Italy and Canada. An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. Later on, he desperately starts to use his own brutal methods to find the killer, but the truth turns out to be …
Rhythm And Sound
*Limited edition of 500 copies.*Her name was Anna Maria Assunta Andreassi. She composed and arranged the entirety of what would become one of the rarest documents in Italian library music, filed it under the alias Mandrassi, pressed it on the micro-label Ludo Record in 1973, and then watched it disappear almost entirely - so completely that for decades collectors weren't certain the record had ever existed. Sonor Music Editions' reissue of Rhythm And Sound, limited to 500 copies, is the first ti…
Fatevi Vivi La Polizia Non Interverrà
The son of a judge who trained as a lawyer before abandoning the profession for music, Piero Piccioni brought to Italian cinema a compositional intelligence that set him apart from almost every contemporary. His collaborators included Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Francesco Rosi - a list that places him closer to the art film than the genre picture. Yet it is in the crime and thriller scores of the 1970s that his work finds some of its most inventive expression,…
Tra Scienza E Fantascienza
Timeless atmospheres, hypnotic sonorities, minimal arrangements. And a composer gifted with a never ending passion for music, experimenter in his genetic code, innovator by vocation, at ease with various instruments in order to forge avant-garde themes. Piero Umiliani was already forward in building completely new sounds in the late Seventies. “Tra Scienza E Fantascienza” finds his alter ego Moggi experimenting with alternative grooves, electronic music, jazz tunes and soundtrack motifs. One of …
Storie Di Guerra
Ominous drums, obscure cellos, fuzzy and distorted guitars, psychedelic piano sequences: legendary Italian composer Alessandro Alessandroni creates a somber and gritty war atmosphere on this classic library album "Storie Di Guerra". Originally released on the Octopus Records imprint by Flipper Music in 1972, this obscure and spooky library has been long out of print — 50 years past its release we are happy to bring this back on vinyl in collaboration with Flipper Music as a limited edition of 50…
Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale'
Big Tip! Directed in 1972 by Romano Scavolini, "Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale" features a cast with some familiar faces from the Italian thriller genre like Evelyn Stewart and Ivan Rassimov. The film was scored by a great name of the Italian film music scene, Fiorenzo Carpi, whose music was superbly arranged and conducted with his own and unique great style by Bruno Nicolai. Originally released on vinyl by Gemelli in 1975, three years after the release of the movie, this score is dominated by th…
An Old Castle of Transylvania
Originally formed in 1968 under the name The Silencer, Nagoya, Japan progressive rock band Cosmos Factory didn't change their name until their 1983 debut on Nippon Columbia with "An Old Castle Of Transylvania". Loaded with heavy psychedelia and prog rock guitar moments, experimentally blended with the use of Hammond and Mellotron, the band lead by keyboardist / vocalist Tsutomu Izumi takes you on an adventure throughout the dark forests of Transylvania. Throughout the years, the album has become…
Special Sound Series – Vol. 1: Catch in Alice
Considered by many one of the most gifted and outstanding players in the Electone community thanks to his fresh, energetic, rhythmic and sometimes humorous style of playing, from 1975 to 1977 Shigeo Sekitō released a four-LP album set titled Special Sound Series for the iconic Nippon Columbia. On the first chapter of this series, Sekitō revisits, in his own colourful style, compositions such as "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Stevie Wonder, "Oh, My Love" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Andalu…
Disco Music
Composed by legendary library guitarist and founding member of I Gres, Silvano Chimenti, and accompanied by his orchestra, "Disco Music" is an essential release of the Usignolo catalog and probably one of the most sought after titles of the series. This album displays a broad range of styles masterfully blended together by Chimenti, going from disco-funky bangers "Happy California" and "Autostrade Americane" that lead way to the more dramatic and suspenseful vibes of "Society Problem" and "Trage…