Reissues
Andrea Doria-74
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar present the premiere CD release of this much-requested score by Riz Ortolani (Fantasma d’amore, Valentina, Mondo Cane, Woman Times Seven) in a complete presentation. Italian writer/director Bruno Vailati helmed an expedition in 1968 to film the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, a legendary Italian ship that sank near Nantucket (the number in the title refers to how deep the ship had sunk). The film is a rare treat to behold, one of the first diver …
Scusi, lei conosce il sesso?
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar present the world premiere release of the score for a rare mondo film by no less than Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Piero Umiliani! Directed by Vittorio De Sisti in his directorial debut, Scusi, lei conosce il sesso? (1968) was one of the earlier examples of the genre with small investigative episodes organized around the topic of human sexuality. Interviews and reconstructed footage are used to explore all aspect of sex from breastfeeding to …
Perversione / Stress
*Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and Gruppo Sugar presents the premiere releases of two Carlo Savina psychedelic cult classics. Manuel Mur Oti’s Perversione (also know as Diary of an Erotic Murderess and La encadenada) stars Marisa Mell as a seductress getting involved with both father and son in order to inherit a huge estate. The film’s score is largely based around a piano theme for the character of the son – actor Anthony Steffen was actually an accomplished pianist and had played musicians…
The Film Music of Franco Bixio
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records in collaboration with Cinevox Records presents a collection of renowned Italian composer Franco Bixio that showcases four premiere scores on a 2-CD set. Directed by Italian actor Renzo Merusi, Deserto Di Fuoco (1971) is a heist adventure film set in the Sahara Desert as outlaw El Marish (George Wang), smuggler Jean (Giuseppe Addobbati) and tagalong girlfriend Juana (Edwige Fenech) get mixed up in an illegal weapons deal. Bixio’s music relies heavily on exotic …
RoGoPaG
* Edition of 300. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records presents premiere release of the complete score composed by Carlo Rustichelli (L’isola di Arturo, La lunga notte del ’43, Avanti!, Delitto d’amore, Kapò) for the star-studded anthology film RoGoPaG. During the 1960s, Italian cinema enjoyed a renaissance of portmanteau films—a collection of shorts culled into larger productions organized around a common theme. The 1963 RoGoPaG gained its title from the four directors behind the camera: Roberto Rosse…
L’Ingenua / L’osceno Desiderio
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Beat Records presents two Carlo Savina titles from the scary and the sexy side of the Italian Maestro. The first score is L’ingenua (1975), an Italian sex comedy starring Illona Staller, about a pair of con artists whose latest scam is about to be ruined by a couple of beautiful women who are unwittingly ruining their plan. Starting from the orgasmic vocal prelude of the opening titles, Savina’s score has a fun, bouncy feel where the presence of…
La Ragazza di Via Condotti
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records and Cinevox presents the premiere release of an Enrico Simonetti giallo score. La ragazza di Via Condotti is an Italian crime thriller starring Frederick Stafford as Sandro Mattei who investigates the murder of his philandering wife at the hands of her lover. By using his girlfriend’s skills to magnify a photo (with hints of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up), Sandro traces down a mysterious stripper whose rich clients, including a powerful lawyer, m…
Le isole dell'amore
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records is proud to present Piero Umiliani’s hit soundtrack to Pino De Martino obscure softcore island fantasy Le isole dell’amore (1970). Although he is not as well known as Ennio Morricone or Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani may be the most colorful and experimental film composer of the Italian silver age. An avid fan of jazz and the producer of Italy’s first bebop record, Umiliani had scored almost 150 movies and recorded a number of highly-sought after co…
Le Sorelle
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Expanded CD debut of passionate Giorgio Gaslini score written for Roberto Malenotti’s Le sorelle, a lesbian soft-core film starring Nathalie Delon and Susan Strasberg. Martha (Strasberg) and Diana (Delon) are two sisters who had a passionate affair in the past which lead to their break-up. Both of them had gotten married, but her recent divorce makes Diana reconsider her decision. After a nervous breakdown during an international conference, she travels home to vis…
La Pacifista
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock. Last Copy * Expanded CD debut of Giorgio Gaslini jazz score written for Miklós Jancsó’s politically charged film La pacifista (1970), starring Monica Vitti. Barbara is a reporter who is collecting sound bites at a political rally, but gets attacked by right-wing activists who wreck her car and ruin her gear. The experience takes a toll on the woman, who gets nervous in open spaces and notices that one of the attackers is always following her. A confrontation at the …
Io, Emmanuelle
* Edition of 300. 2020 Stock * Quartet Records in collaboration with Gruppo Sugar present the premiere CD release of a Gianni Ferrio (The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo, Vivi o preferiblemente morti, Un dollaro bucato, Tony Arzenta) infectious, classy “Emmanuelle score.”
Io, Emmanuelle (also known as A Man for Emmanuelle) was made in 1969, five years before the first entry of the popular erotic movie – and is in fact have no relation to the famous franchise. This story is actually based on t…
Ex-Futur Album
Strictly limited deluxe LP edition on 180gr vinyl, incl. gatefold & inner sleeves and lyric sheet. All songs written between 1980 and 1983. This record was never completed. What was originally intended to become the third album by Aksak Maboul (the seminal band formed by Marc Hollander with Congotronics producer Vincent Kenis) had gradually evolved into a strange artefact, closely mingling (iconic Honeymoon Killers chanteuse) Véronique Vincent’s dreamy vocals and deceptively bubbly lyrics with…
Trippin' Musik
* Limited supply, don't miss this much needed repress** From the label: "Due to issues with the coloured vinyl pressing on some copies of this set, we have finally agreed with the pressing plant to get replacement copies in 180g virgin black vinyl. We also have a limited quantity of the complete box set in black vinyl available for sale. These are expected to arrive around the middle of December."
Following from the reissue of NWW’s ’Soliloquy For Lilith’ boxset, ‘Trippin’ Musik’ relays the most…
Paracon - The Paragon Session Outtakes 1978-1979
"Conrad Schnitzler is incredible. I would dearly have loved to meet him, to have been present when he, Seidel and Baumann were working their magic at Paragon Studio. Fortuitously, Wolfgang Seidel, co-author of these pieces, has opened up his archive of recordings to the Bureau B label. He and Conrad Schnitzler spent many years together experimenting with sound, capturing the results on the two Consequenz albums, amongst others. I had the honor of meeting Wolfgang Seidel at the Golden Pudel Club …
Vanity Records CD Box bundle (31 CD) - Complete Discography
This super discounted bundle gathers together the five recently issued Vanity Records Box Sets, offering a comprehensive anthology of all the releases by this legendary Japanese DYI label, active in the late 70s and early 80s.and includes 31 CDs in total:Various - Vanity Records 'Music, Tapes & Demos' (11CD Box)Various - Vanity Records 'Demos' (6CD Box)Various - The Vanity Box Vol. 1 (5CD Box)Various - The Vanity Box Vol. 2 (5CD Box)Tolerance - Vanity (5CD Box)Here's details about the contents o…
Live!
Originally recorded in 1971 at Abbey Road studios in just a few hours, 'Live!' is a collaboration between good friends former Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome-Kuti and his band The Africa 70. Featuring a live audience of 150 people who crammed into the studio with them, this is not only a piece of history with some of the most accomplished musicianship you'll ever hear, it's also a really fun party record and a great example of what…
Free The People
Reissue of this long lost funky Afrobeat/Reggae classic from 1978. For fans of Fela Kuti, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Segun Bucknor. The year is 1978 and one hot thing from the musical underground is Reggae music from Jamaica, the USA or the UK, where most of the acts had musicians of Caribbean descent. Reggae had the groove, the rebel spirit, and the relaxed attitude all in one, to enchant a big part of the world’s inhabitants. And while at least Jamaica as a relatively poor and so-called "Third Wo…
Excavations 1
Repressed, in process of stocking. "The Chicago-based string genius Joshua Abrams first talked to us about the idea of this album a while back. It took a couple of years to get together, but in a way, it's cool that it's being released in 2018 -- the 50th anniversary of the recording of the first free bass solo LP, Barre Phillips' Journal Violone. Issued by Opus One in the U.S., Music Man in the UK (as Unaccompanied Barre), and Futura in France (as Basse Barre), Phillips' groundbreaking album wa…
Savage Songs of Brutality and Food. By the Extreme Angels of Parody
The worlds of sound art and child-rearing collide on an album of children's songs and chants collaged and transformed by Simon Fisher Turner
Botija de mi Pais
**300 copies. 140 gram vinyl with OBI & Insert** Recorded between 1985 and 1987, this album brings together the two founders and leading performers of candombe-beat, Ruben Rada and Eduardo Mateo. They hadn´t collaborated in a project since 1969. Both artists had reached their creative prime, with Mateo having released “Cuerpo y Alma” and Rada, “La yapla mata” (which included the classic song ‘Tengo un candombe para Gardel’). 140 gram vinyl with OBI & Insert This initiative sprang from the art…