Library Selects
Sono Stato Un Agente CIA
“Sono Stato Un Agente CIA” (1978), also known as “Covert Action”, is a twilight film directed by Romolo Guerrieri and set in Greece, starring David Janssen, in the role of a former Central Intelligence Agency agent who became a writer of incendiary books on prostitution and drug trafficking, flanked by Maurizio Merli, a colleague in possession of some compromising tapes, sentimentally linked to the romance novel character played by the seductive Corinne Cléry. The two are involved in a murky ga…
Preistoria
Big Tip! Originally released in 1968 as part of the "Serie Sonorizzazioni" series on Piero Umiliani's iconic Omicron label, "Preistoria" is the perfect example of a library music collection perfectly tailored to a theme. Through the use of orchestral accompaniment, jazzy arrangements, and tribal experimentation thrown in for good measure, the legendary Italian composer brings you back to the stone age, creating and ominous and primitive landscape, rich of caveman-style drums and deep bass lines.…
Nel Mondo Del Lavoro
Few albums capture Italian library music at its most purposefully conceived as Nel Mondo Del Lavoro. Originally released in 1972 on Sermi - one of the foundational labels of the Italian production music scene, co-founded by Sergio Pagoni and Michelangelo Cunsolo in close orbit with Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone's world - the album was commissioned as the soundtrack to a RAI television documentary series on the petroleum industry, Sapere: Il Petrolio. What Rino De Filippi built from that brie…
Dreams For Sax
Another gem from the extensive Flipper Music catalog, more precisely from their Flower sublabel, "Dreams For Sax" is possibly one of the most stand-out productions from their studio ensemble Gruppo Sound, this time around featuring saxophonist Paolo Russo with keyboardists Stefano Galante and Vittorio Quattrini. First released in 1987, the songs recorded for "Dreams For Sax" are a beautiful melange of easy-listening electronic and jazzy vibes, from mellow tunes such as "Dawning" and "First Class…
News! News! News!
The incomparable Piero Umiliani (under his mysterious Moggi moniker) weighs in with another killer library gem of 1979. “News! News! News!” was originally released in few copies on the small imprint Sound Work Shop, both label and recording studio owned by the cult maestro. Musica Per Immagini gave another chance to its eleven amazing electronic and jazz tracks played by some of the best musicians who took part in the golden age of Italian music libraries. This sought-after album is the way the …
Mare Romantico
Where Il Mare descends - darker, more electronic, built around the alien geometry of deep water - Mare Romantico stays closer to the surface. Originally released in 1974 on the obscure Pretty label in a pressing so small it had effectively vanished by the time anyone thought to look for it, this is the second volume in Sonor Music Editions' aquatic library triptych: seventeen tracks of analogue synthesizer and electronic lounge, recorded for TV sea documentaries in Amedeo Tommasi's own studio. L…
Il Mare - Musica Con Strumenti Elettronici
Ten tracks, one subject. Edmondo Giuliani's Il Mare: Musica Con Strumenti Elettronici was originally conceived in 1972 as the score for an obscure sea documentary, recorded in Amedeo Tommasi's own studio and issued on the near-invisible micro-label Dischi Egede as part of a library series titled "Brani Per Sonorizzazione". The brief couldn't have been simpler - music for the sea - and what emerged from it is one of the more singular electronic records of the Italian library era. Sonor Music Edit…