Reissues

We continue our renaissance of the great Piero Umiliani's body of work with this 2-CD edition of the score of La legge dei gangsters (Gangster's Law), a movie directed by Siro Marcellini in 1969 starring Klaus Kinsky, Maurice Poli and Franco Citti . The backdrop for the Maestro's score is the streets of Genoa, a robbery, treachery and gunfights: fertile ground in which the Florentine composer put the roots of his talent with a dynamic and harmonic score, sophisticated and original, romantic and …

Sinfonia per due spie (Serenade for Two Spies) is an Euro Spy movie directed by Alberto Cardone in 1965 starring Hellmut Lange, Tony Kendall and Barbara Lass . The movie taps into the gold vein discovered by the Bond movie franchise and is considered an entertaining production by lovers of the genre. The score by the late Maestro surely provides punctual proof of the skill and expertise of the popular Roman composer, able sculptor of perfect atmospheres for these kinds of movies (such as Colpo M…

I demoni di San Pietroburgo(2008, The Demons OF ST. Petersburg) marks the twelfth collaboration between director Giuliano Montaldo and composer Ennio Morricone. The score was released as a limited edition earlier this year by Keep Moving Records and quickly sold out. Now available once again in this deluxe edition by Beat Records, the Maestro's intimate, orchestral, melodic score is celebrated once again, with a 16-page booklet featuring original artwork from the film and liner notes by French c…

I dolci vizi della casta Susanna (The Sweet Sins Of Sexy Susan) belongs to a genre that can only be called ''decamerotic.'' The Italian-Austrian-Hungarian co-production was directed in 1967 by Franz Antel and starred Teri Tordai, Mike Marshall and Pascal Petit. The most memorable aspect of this humorous comedy with blushing cheeks is surely the beautiful score by the late Maestro Gianni Ferrio. Cheerful, lively and baroque-flavored sounds explode in unchained shakes and beat cues that will make …

Beat Records releases for the first time on CD the complete score by Francesco De Masi for the TV program Alla scoperta dell'Africa, directed by Folco Quilici in 1966. For this CD we used the mono master tapes of the original recording session which allowed us to discover additional music not included on the CAM 33 rpm. Maestro De Masi composed a fascinating lounge score with jazz atmospheres alternated with other exotic and mysterious sounds. Now available in our BCM series with a 12-page bookl…

The eighth and final release of the short series dedicated to the work of the popular Roman composer Piero Piccioni, Fratello Mare (Brother Sea) was directed in 1975 by Folco Quilici and focuses on the tourism that is plundering one of the heavens on Earth: in this case, Polynesia. Through his personal recollections, the protagonist, an old fisherman, gives life to his relationship with the seaside and the social evolution of his homeland. With great bitterness, he bears witness to the unscrupul…

Following our release of the score for Vita Segreta Di Una Diciottenne, we present the definitive edition of Diario Segreto Di Una Minorenne, again composed by the great Maestro Gianni Marchetti, the popular Italian composer who recently passed away. The movie was directed in 1968 by Oscar Brazzi and stars Rossano Brazzi and Mimma Biscardi in the role of a teenager trying to understand life. The score by the Maestro is, as usual, of great craftsmanship, with infectious rhythms and a style that w…

We continue our exploration of the immense discography of late Maestro Francesco De Masi, Italian and international film score icon and dear friend of our label. FBI Operazione Pakistan (1966) is another piece of the immense jigsaw of great music, colors, emotions and art that make up the immense sonic tapestry produced by the Roman composer, always of the highest quality. This score takes its inspiration from the Euro Spy genre, very well tested in the compositional mechanism of the artist, alw…

The 7th release in the series dedicated to the great scores composed by M° Piccioni features a cinematic meeting of the great Maestro with Alberto Lattuada, director of Cuore di cane (1976, Dog's Heart), starring Max Von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf and Cochi Ponzoni. Set in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the movie presented a new challenge for M° Piccioni, namely how to score the vicissitudes of a character engineered in a laboratory, half man, half dog. The eclecticism of this extraordi…

A milestone release! After two years of suffering, we finally succeed in giving birth to the wonderful score for the movie Basta guardarla, a masterpiece directed in 1970 by Luciano Salce and starring Maria Grazia Buccella, Carlo Giuffrè, Mariangela Melato and Pippo Franco . It's the story of Silver Boy and Enrichetta, a girl from the country who ends up as a performer in a traveling theater company in a kaleidoscope of funny situations counterpointed by the wonderful score composed by M° Franco…

A project very dear to us, Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane (Tiko and the Shark) is a bona-fide classic in M° de Masi's discography. Directed in 1962 by Folco Quilici, it features a pleasant story about the friendship of a young Polynesian, his shark and a girl on vacation. The wonderful score by M° de Masi was previously released, but loving the music as we do, we couldn't refrain from releasing it again in a definitive edition. The popular Roman composer, particularly inspired by the movie, created …

This release marks the debut of an unreleased ''couple'' in our catalog: director Umberto Lenzi and composer Sergio Patucchi (aficionados of our productions). The latter was given the task of composing the score for The Man From The Deep River (in Italy known as Il Paese Del Sesso Selvaggio), an adventure movie shot by the great living Tuscan Icon in 1972. The movie starred Ivan Rassimov in the guise of an adventurer in faraway lands. The music? In the director's words, ''The score was given to …

A new tribute to the great Maestro Roberto Pregadio, who recently passed away and who gave so much to Italian cinema and television, we present his never-before-released score for Erika, a dramatic movie shot in 1971 by Filippo Walter Ratti and featuring Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti and Bernard De Vries. Great lounge sonorities were sewn into the scenes by the renowned composer and musician, author of some of the most beautiful soundtracks of this type in the mythical decade of the ‘70s. Erika …

Questo Si Che E' Amore (Last Touch Of Love) was directed in 1978 by Filippo Ottoni and starred Christopher George, Gay Hamilton, Laura Trotter and Sven Valsecchi. It tells the story of a terminally-ill young boy who is forced to live in a hospital and of his gesture of love that will bring his parents together again at the cost of his own life. A movie in the tear-jerker genre - which was very popular at the time - the score was composed by a Maestro very dear to Beat Records: Stelvio Cipriani, …

Stelvio Cipriani is the protagonist of this felicitous meeting with the music of genre cinema, this time dedicated to the exotic adventure movie Luana, La Figlia Della Foresta Vergine (aka Luana, The Girl Tarzan). Rife with suggestive scenography, the movie was shot in 1968 by Roberto Infascelli and features Mei Chen in the guise of the beautiful Luana and Glenn Saxon as the adventurer. Naturally, a highlight is the wonderful score by Maestro Stelvio Cipriani, living icon and artistic liaison fo…

A rare gem, finally discovered in the great ocean of unreleased Italian scores, Il plenilunio delle vergini (1973, aka ''Full Moon of the Virgins'' and ''The Devil's Wedding Night'') was composed by the late Bulgarian Vasco Vassil Kojucharov, Roman-adopted and imported by Cinecittà into the Italian music biz in order to express his personal talent in the field of soundtrack composing. ''Il plenilunio delle vergini'' is in the Italian Gothic genre and features vampires, sacrifices of cute, young …

5000 Dollari sull'asso is a Western film that was directed by Alfonso Balcazar in 1965 and starred Robert Woods, Fernando Sancho, Helmut Schmid and Maria Sebaldt. It's a movie that diverged from the Spaghetti Western genre that was developing in that period, more prone to satisfy the classic Hollywood audience. The great cast featured Robert Woods as the protagonist and the terrible Fernando Sancho in an unusual role, with the two unlikely allies joining up to fight the baddies. And the score? A…

Who would you rather be: the unmerciful Sartana or the vengeful Johnny? Whichever you choose, you'll have the opportunity to personalize this flip-cover edition of the original motion picture soundtrack of the movie 1000 dollari sul nero. The year is 1966, and we are on the rising wave of Italian Westerns, a rich gold vein discovered two years earlier by Sergio Leone. Director Alberto Cardone digs into this vein, creating this movie that introduces for the first time, at least by name, the Sarta…

After the expanded version of the score for the TV series ''Il Killer,'' we return to Gianni Ferrio for this score from 1966. Composed during the golden era of Italo-Westerns for a movie that actually has little to do with that genre - even if at the time speaking it was disguised in such a way as to dazzle would-be audiences - Gringo, getta il fucile! (aka ''The Tough One'') starred the baddest of bad guys: Fernando Sancho. It's an adventure movie set in South America for a story that follows t…

In 2013, thanks to the collaboration with Sugar Group and the Umiliani Estate archives, we launched a new series dedicated to the discovery of the immense talent of this wonderful composer. Through our efforts we were able to retrieve many beautiful soundtracks, some of which we've already released: ''Intrigo a Los Angeles,'' ''Jerry Land Cacciatore di Spie,'' ''Il marchio di Kriminal,'' and sound library albums such as ''Discomusic'' and ''Tra scienza e fantascienza.'' Many others are just wait…

It was 1969, a peculiar period from a social and political point of view. A disillusioned communist, ex partisan, and nephew of an important figure in the Salò Republic decides to dedicate himself to cinema, becoming a director after having been an intellectual. We are talking about Maurizio Liverani, director of this strange movie in which he denounced the ambiguities of the communist political class in a way that at the time speaking was deemed scandalous. It features a good cast starring the …

The third chapter in our 2013 series dedicated to the great music composed by M° Piero Piccioni is based on a peculiar film: the horror-documentary movie Il demonio, directed in 1964 by Brunello Rondi and starring Daliah Lavi and Frank Wolff. A film inspired by real events that happened in the south of Italy, it tells the story of a scorned woman who seeks to avenge on her ex-lover with a spell, after which the townspeople accuse her of being possessed by the devil. The directorial style fluctua…

The second of our 2013 series featuring Piero Piccioni's great music for cinema is the score for L'attico (1962). Gianni Puccini directed this bittersweet comedy with a great cast that included Daniela Rocca, Tomas Milian, Philippe Leroy and Walter Chiari . The score by the Maestro flowed from his prolific, creative veins in the middle of a period of great artistic output by the popular composer. In the case of ''L'attico'' we are delighted by a soundtrack that is compact yet at the same time do…

2012 was the year dedicated to Francesco de Masi and his wonderful scores for Western movies (the last chapter of the series is coming soon!). For 2013, we introduce a new monographic series dedicated to a great Maestro who is unfortunately no longer with us: Piero Piccioni. This series avails of choices made with great attention, with the aim to compile a chronological selection that spans more than two decades. Our series begins in 1959, and the first score chosen is among those that most dese…

A legendary composer is rightly celebrated with the release of this CD featuring a completely unreleased score! La faccia violenta di New York a movie shot in 1973 by Jorge Darnell and starring Mimsy Farmer, Fernando Rey, Sergio Jiménez and Luigi Pistilli. The score was composed by one of the greatest of Italian and international film music: Riz Ortolani. For this movie with an acrid flavor he wrote a symphonic score that highlights a romantic theme that is orchestrated in many guises from the m…

Intrigo a Los Angeles aka ''Intrigue in Los Angeles,'' ''F.B.I. enquête à Los Angeles'' and ''Tom Collins jagt die schwarze Natter'') is a Giallo/Spy hybrid directed in 1964 by Romano Ferrara (under the pseudonym Roy Freemount), produced by Lucio Marcuzzo and Mario Perelli for Cinelions, Publitalia, and starring Mary Luger, Renato Terra Caizzi, Gaetano Quartararo, Stefano Pfau, Luciana Marina and Carol Walker. F.B.I. agents David Blair and Thelma Avery are assigned to search for Professor Weiss,…

Available in Beat Records catalogue the score of one the most discussed movies of the late 60s, El Che Guevara, directed by Paolo Heusch with Francisco Rabal, John Ireland, Susanna Martinkova . As you can easily guess from the title, the movie is dedicated to life and deeds of the popular character born in Argentina, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, passed away in Bolivia in 1967, killed by the local militia aided by special USA corps, during the tentative of the soldier to bring a popular revolutio…

Beat Records keeps on exploring original soundtracks composed by Francesco De Masi with this release of Concerto per pistola solista, a movie directed in 1970 by Michele Lupo that starred the great Gastone Moschin as a busy policeman looking for a mysterious assassin. The score composed by the Maestro is intense and provides excellent support to the movie. A symphonic score performed by a great orchestra, it is accomplished through gorgeous sounds and keen intuition, starting with the main title…

After the music composed for a unhealthy thriller, Il Sorriso Della Jena, by Roberto Pregadio, we keep on digging into the discography of the great Maestro and venture into entertaining cinema of the late '60 inspired to the characters of the 3 Supermen, born by the vivid imagination of Italo Martinenghi , a franchise that lasted up to the middle 80s with a lot of sequels. …E Cosi' Divennero I 3 Supermen was shot in 1973 and starred 3 weird super heroes and their time travels, destination the we…

After more than 40 years from the composition of the wonderful score by M° Ferrio for the TV series Il killer, we are glad to propose to the M° fans the stereo expanded and remastered version of this 1968 original soundtrack with all of his sonorities typical of the period. Shake, danceable music, orchestral music, melodic themes, thriller, jazz, drama, a style handbook that soundtrack lovers will adore from the very first listen! The CD is proposed in jewelbox edition with 8 pages booklet, mast…

Legendary Italian-American composer Bill Conti, in distant 1968, just 28 years old and still not affirmed composer for cinema, has already composed his very first scores in his style that very soon will have become unique. For the movie of the late 60s the author of the immortal music for Rocky Balboa composed a soundtrack in the style of the epoch but already with his forthcoming Hollywood signature, winking an eye to jazz sonorities of various nature and bossanova rhythms in the Jobim trademar…

We proceed through our research in the spy-movies genre with the release of a great score composed by Nico Fidenco in 1967 for the movie Supercolpo DA 7 Miliardi directed by Bitto Albertini (Black Emanuelle) with Brad Harris, Elina De Witt, Franco Andrei, Ferdinando Poggi, Marisa Traversi. After the release of Operazione Poker a new exciting release for the lover of the genre and of the composer, a new expanded and official version of a score done by an inspired Nico Fidenco that skillfully comp…

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Erik Enocksson's 2006 score for the Swedish film Farväl Falkenberg: pump organ, piano, chiming bells, whistling and acoustic guitar waltzes, with songs recorded on set. New edition for the film's 20th anniversary, 500 copies.

Argentinian pianist Angel Pocho Gatti's 1977 library album for Edipan: soulful jazz and brass grooves under titles like Unreality Landscape and The Space And Me, long a rare groove holy grail. Reissued on black and clear vinyl.

Bruno Nicolai's score for Emilio Marsili's 1975 documentary on Italian railways: orchestral writing laced with electronics and jazz, with violin and harmonica tracing the rhythm and movement of the trains. Reissued by Sounds From The Screen.

John Barry's 1965 score for The Ipcress File, re-recorded by the City of Prague Philharmonic under Adam Klemens, cimbalom theme included, and rebuilt after the Decca album by Chris Malone. Black and orange vinyl, 400 copies.

Three John Barry scores for black-and-white British films of the 1960s: the chamber music of Four in the Morning in stereo and mono, two unreleased cues from The L-Shaped Room and the titles of Dutchman. Limited to 1000 copies.

Alessandro Alessandroni's 1976 poliziottesco score, cut in one day with Enrico Pieranunzi, Silvano Chimenti and Dino Piana: jazz-funk, deep soul and disco in the wake of Shaft. 50th anniversary edition, expanded with 14 unreleased tracks.

Ennio Morricone's score for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 epic, from the piano theme Tema di Ada to the opening Romanzo. Quartet's 50th anniversary CD, restored and remastered by Chris Malone, with a 20-page booklet.