Reissues
Les Oiseaux Morts / Back To Life
French avantgarde Jazz-Funk pioneers Cortex released three milestone albums during the seventies including the iconic Troupeau Bleu. Their music has been sampled by Hip Hop artists such as MF Doom, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco and Rick Ross and as a consequence is still very much alive today.
Trad Vibe Records proudly presents a first time re-issue of their double sider 7inch single from 1976 Les Oiseaux Morts / Back To Life. We are sure that you will enjoy the melancholic beauty of “Les Oiseaux Mor…
Ravissante Baby
Rare funk & Avant-Garde soul from a seven years old kid singer featuring the best of French and Cameroonian musicians diaspora, recorded in Paris in 1977. The album contains two nicely dramatic tracks: “Look Up in the sky (Negro nature)” is a stretched funk groove with psyche synth by Michel Morose, bubbling bassline by the great Victor Edimo, the famous Toto Guillaume on guitar, and a brilliant poetic song by Francis The Great, who at that time studied in Menilmontant (Paris). “Ravissante Baby …
Quando la Coppia Scoppia
Quando La Coppia Scoppia is a 1981 film directed by Steno and starring Enrico Montesano, Claude Brasseur, and Dalila Di Lazzaro in a comedy in which the protagonist Enrico Granata (Montesano) is facing a matrimonial crisis as a third party (Brasseur) tries to steal his wife (Di Lazzaro). A movie gifted with a score by Piero Umiliani, until now completely unreleased, one of the last composed by him and which denotes, once again, the maestro's proficiency in jazz orchestrations and provides rhythm…
Violentata sulla Sabbia / Bella di Giorno Moglie di Notte
Digitmovies presents a reissue of two 1971 soundtracks by Gianfranco Plenizio, Violentata sulla Sabbia and Bella di Giorno Moglie di Notte. This CD was made from the stereo master tapes from the 1971 recording session, in which Plenizio composed two elegant orchestral soundtrack pieces with a lounge atmosphere, using a solo instrument and the beautiful voice of Edda Dell'Orso. The protagonists of the two films, Vanina and Paola, were filmed with alternating main scores which go from mysterious a…
Omicidio per Vocazione
Digitmovies release on CD Stefano Torossi's complete original soundtrack for the film Omicidio per Vocazione ("Deadly Inheritance", "L'assassino ha le Mani Pulite"). Stefano Torossi composed a lounge-style score where the noir side of the story is contrasted with a danceable shake. There are also plenty of romantic themes as well as an atmosphere of suspense typical of giallo films. Originally C.A.M. had released eight musical selections on a promotional LP paired with the OST from the film (E' …
Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne
Digitmovies release for the first time on CD Luciano Michelini's original soundtrack for the giallo film Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne ("The Suspicious Death Of A Minor"). Luciano Michelini composed one of the most interesting OSTs of giallo and noir film genres. The dramatic main score is pop dominated by organs and rhythms with hints of the goblins in the film "Deep Red". It's introduced in the first part of the opening credits and then reprised, while the second part introduces folk music f…
Lucio Fulci's Gates Of Hell Trilogy
* Hard paper box; 40-page booklet. * Gates of Hell Trilogy is Beat Records' tribute to the popular apocryphal trilogy directed by horror cinema legend Lucio Fulci in the early '80s, three movies that marked the evolution of the director's style over just two years. Starting with Paura Nella Citta' Dei Morti Viventi (1980), going through E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore... L'aldila'! (1981), and ending with Quella Villa Accanto Al Cimitero (1981), all three featured the beautiful and skilled Catriona MacC…
Albert e l'Uomo Nero
In process of stocking. Digitmovies issuing for the first time on CD Franco Micalizzi's complete original soundtrack for the cult TV mini-series Albert e l'uomo Nero (aka "Albert And The Boogie Man") which had been broadcasted in three episodes by Italian television in 1976. The series was directed by Dino B. Partesano. While running in the country around a big villa close to Ravenna where he lives with his dad and his aunt Teresa, little Albert, a kid only ten-years-old, finds the corpse of hi…
Ruba al prossimo tuo
Digitmovies presents a reissue of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, a 1968 film by Francesco "Citto" Maselli. The 1995 GDM Music compilation With Love presented a collection of love themes by Ennio Morricone. One theme, from Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, was enclosed directly transferred from the music track of the movie itself, but the source was in such terrible conditions that did not make it possible to create a CD master. An expanded suite (from the same disputable source) was …
L’Ossessa
In process of stocking. Digitmovies release, for the first time as a complete edition on CD, Marcello Giombini's soundtrack for the horror film Enter The Devil ("L'Ossessa") (1974). Giombini (1928-2003) experimented with symphonic music, electronic music and also religious music with a rock beat during his career. For cinema he wrote numerous soundtracks including the well-known ones from the Sabata trilogy of spaghetti westerns, for the cult horror film Antropophagus (1980) and the main score f…
Arcana / L'uomo Del Tesoro Di Priamo
In process of stocking. Digitmovies release for the first time on CD two extremely rare original soundtracks by Romolo Grano from the film Arcana and the TV show L'uomo Del Tesoro Di Priamo. For Arcana, Romolo Grano composed an OST where the main score emerges as a sort of concerto in three movements performed by an orchestra (with an emphasis on winds), the voice of Edda Dell'Orso, and pieces played by a Hammond organ. The score develops into an impending classic theme with the modern sound of …
Non si sevizia un paperino
* Edition of 300 * Deluxe vinyl reissue of Riz Ortolani classic score for one of the most iconic giallo ever made, directed by Lucio Fulci in 1972, starring Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Florinda Bolkan, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and George Wilson. What makes this movie so special? Without a doubt the film’s most original feature is its location. The story takes place in Southern rural Italy, trading the sophisticated environment of modern, urban Italy for the misery of a village anchored in the …
Marta … Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
* Edition of 300. White Vinyl * Premiere vinyl release of Piero Piccioni score for classic erotic giallo, directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971, starring Marisa Mell, Stephen Boyd, Jesús Puente, Isa Miranda and George Rigaud. Marta (aka Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora), a play by the Spanish playwright Juan Jose Alonso Millan, was the starting point for the script of Marta, a film directed by Spaniard José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1971. Produced by José Frade with the Atlántida…
The Tenant
Quartet Records and Paramount Pictures present the expanded, remastered edition of the iconic score by Philippe Sarde (Ghost Story, Lord of the Flies, Pirates, César et Rosalie) for a Roman Polanski horror tale The Tenant. Based on the popular novel Le Locataire Chimerique by Roland Topor, the film was directed by Polanski, who also co-wrote the screenplay with his usual partner, Gérad Brach. It co-stars Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters and Jo Van Fleet. Although the film was giv…
Harlem Pop
* Edition of 300 * Gregorio García Segura, also known as Greg Segura, was one of the most respected composers on the Spanish music scene during the 1960s and 1970s. Arranger and conductor for such folklore and pop stars as Sara Montiel, Lola Flores, Manolo Escobar, Marisol, Rocío Jurado and Lina Morgan, among many others, he was also well known as a film composer, scoring more than 200 films. In the 1970s he recorded a series of singles and EPs for his own label, Gregor, which had little distri…
Zoo Folle / Gli Animali… che Simpatia
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records, GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia present the CD premiere of two cult Giuliano Sorgini scores for rare TV documentaries from the mid-seventies. Directed by Riccardo Fellini (brother of Federico), both Zoo Folle and Gli animali… Che Simpatia are nature documentaries produced for RAI in 1974 and 1975. Zoo folle showcases how imprisoning animals into small cages and their lives in zoos are really cruelty. The first episode was dedicated to the…
Dedicato al Mare Egeo
* 2020 Stock * Dedicato al mare Egeo was a bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. W…
8½
* 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar proudly present a 2-CD set with the premiere release of the complete score composed by Nino Rota (La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, The Leopard, The Godfather) for Federico Fellini’s classic 8½. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo and Barbara Steele, the film is about a harried movie director who retreats into his memories and fantasies. Being one of the most personal and introspective films of Fellini, the movie was a…
Il Diario Proibito di Fanny
* Edition of 300. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents a complete score premiere of tuneful Nora Orlandi delicious score. Written and directed by Sergio Pastore in 1969. Il diario proibito di Fanny is an anthology film starring Giovanna Lenzi as four different women, all named Fanny. The film touches upon all the hot-button issues of 1968: illegal immigrants from the Eastern bloc, the Prague Spring, the Italian star cult and even abortion.
The score composed by Nora Orlandi (Il…
Un Amore
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records releases CD premiere of Giorgio Gaslini masterpiece! Based on the novel by Dino Buzzati, Un amore (1965) focuses on architect Antonio Dorigo and his relationship to four women. Though he is already about fifty, his elderly mother still treats him like a child. Once he meets Laide, a Bohemian girl, Antonio’s life turns upside down and he is ready to break up his current relationship in favor of a fling with a strange, unreliable girl…
Un Amore was only Giorgio G…