Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai

condition: (box set): M (still sealed)

In 1972 Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai recorded ten library albums for RCA's production-music arm in a matter of weeks, using the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza players and Nicolai's own ensemble, with no film to serve and no producer to please. The result, Dimensioni Sonore, is the pair's most experimental work on record: prepared piano, electronic treatments, string clusters, percussion études, things that would have been cut from any soundtrack. The original ten LPs were never sold and are among the rarest Italian library items.

Dialogo reissued the lot in 2020 in this box, ten LPs plus the same programme on ten CDs, remastered, with a book. It is the document that finally put the "avant-garde Morricone" argument beyond dispute. Out of print.

To sum it up, the Luxurious, highly collectible “Dimensioni Sonore” box set includes:

- 10 vinyl LPs, replica of the original RCA LPs
- 10 CDs 
- a 40-page sewn-bound large book (LP size)
- 1 large poster on high-quality paper
- screen-printed tote printed on an ethically-produced 100% cotton
- handmade linen boxset 
- Original liner notes include writings by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone, Elio Petri, Giuliano Montaldo, and Gillo Pontecorvo and a new article by renowned musicologist Maurizio Corbella exploring in detail this edition.
- Carefully remastered from the original analogue tapes by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler and coming in a lavish presentation, this is an essential release which fully showcase the state of the art of Library Music in Italy during the early '70s, and nothing less than a timeless masterpiece.