Spectra Ex Machina / A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol.2
The Anthology Spectra Ex Machina brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology through the exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses (vol. 1); musician mediums (vol. 2); experiences of extrasensory perceptions (clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) and electronic voice phenomena (vol. 3). The link between music, sound and the paranormal…
Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena
"Have a gramophone in every grave..." --James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) The anthology Spectra Ex Machina brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology through the exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses (Vol. 1); musician mediums (vol. 2); experiences of extrasensory perceptions (clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) and electronic voice …
Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura
New remastered reissue, the only credited soundtrack appearance of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, makes you wish Ennio Morricone had used his free improv unit for that purpose more often. Gli Occhi Fredda Della Paura, or Cold Eyes of Fear, is an Italian slasher (giallo) from 1971. The score has Il Gruppo augmented by a rhythm section and a fuzz-wah guitarist (most likely Alessandro Alessandroni). The results sound like a creepy take on 70s Miles Davis, with driving jazz beats a la C…
Spasmo
2024 repress. This great score for Umberto Lenzi's 1974 cult thriller Spasmo, by the maestro Ennio Morricone, creates a disorienting and disturbing effect, with unusual, almost avant-garde-like sounds, instrumentation, and composition. "Sweetness and darkness – perfectly blended together in this classic mid 70s soundtrack by Ennio Morricone! The main theme of the film – "Bambole" – is one of those Mondo Morricone type numbers that floats along on a gossamy sheen – vocals gliding softly over ligh…
I Corpi Presentano Tracce Di Violenza Carnale (Torso) - (Ost)
Tip! LP edition. The legendary Torso (1973), considered one of the precursors of the slasher genre, was directed by Sergio Martino following the success of All the Colors of the Dark (1972), featuring a stunning soundtrack composed by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis also known as Oliver Onions. In 1973 a 26 minutes-long stereo LP was prepared for RCS's promo SP series, but it got cancelled and the 45 rpm didn't see the light, neither. In 1999 BMG printed out a CD (OST 145) with the editing found in …
I Corpi Presentano Tracce Di Violenza Carnale (Torso) - (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
*300 copies limited edition. Expanded edition* The legendary Torso (1973), considered one of the precursors of the slasher genre, was directed by Sergio Martino following the success of All the Colors of the Dark (1972), featuring a stunning soundtrack composed by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis also known as Oliver Onions. In 1973 a 26 minutes-long stereo LP was prepared for RCS's promo SP series, but it got cancelled and the 45 rpm didn't see the light, neither. In 1999 BMG printed out a CD (OST 1…
Il Serpente
Super Tip! “Il Serpente” (Night Flight from Moscow) is a 1973 spy and thriller film directed by Henri Verneuil, starring among others Yul Brinner, Henry Fonda and Philippe Noiret. It’s one of the French director’s six movies that feature a soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone, who here managed to describe the thrilling atmosphere of this high-voltage espionage, alternating dramatic and mysterious passages ("Assassinio sul Lago", "Il Serpente") and experimental ones ("Astrazione con Ritmo", "Es…
Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene
One of the greatest soundtracks ever from the legendary Ennio Morricone – a real standard-setting record that's one of the top choices we go to again and again to illustrate the genius of his music! The score is a fantastic mix of the two best sides of Morricone's work – the kind of light, lilting melodies that are schooled in bossa, but turned loose on their own devices – and the darker, more atonal passages that would come to play more strongly during the 70s. The light wins over the darkness …
Dimensioni Sonore
Widely celebrated and easily among the most ambitious and beautiful endeavors of the last year, the "Dimensioni Sonore" box is truly a stunning thing to behold. Thankfully, Dialogo has repressed this wonder in a brand-new edition of 250 copies on red vinyl. If you weren’t able to grab a copy the first time around, this is a once in a lifetime chance that can’t be missed.
Alla Ricerca del Piacere
50 years ago, Franco and Luciana De Gemini had recently moved to Rome, both looking for their place in the world. Through his collaborations with many great maestros of the period and his involvement with the orchestras, Franco got to know many people including Fulvio Corradini and Benito Costa (the former an administrator of prestigious record catalogs, the second a trusted friend). In fact, they had already caught wind of a small record label called Beat Records Company, founded on May 12, 196…
Io la Conoscevo Bene
** 2021 Stock ** We continue releasing the film music of Piero Piccioni, adventuring even further into the '60s with a beautiful score composed in 1965 for the movie Io la conoscevo bene, directed by Antonio Petrangeli and starring Stefania Sandrelli , Mario Adorf, Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Claude Brialy, Turi Ferro and Franco Nero. The film denounced the morally despicable attitude that was spreading in the Italian jet-set, dominated by those in search of a place i…
La Rivoluzione Sessuale
** 2021 Stock. Limited edition ** Beat Records is proud to offer a brand new unreleased score by a musician we love dearly and whose discography is sorely lacking, Maestro Teo Usuelli, the extremely creative, Emilia-born and Rome-adopted composer. The score featured here comes from a 1968 film by director Riccardo Ghione, La Rivoluzione Sessuale, in which the relationship between authoritarianism and sexual repression are examined in a strongly suggestive context. The score is painted with diffe…
L'Harem
** 2021 Stock. The CD comes in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet designed by Alessio Iannuzzi, liner notes and mastering by Claudio Fuiano ** L'Harem was directed in 1967 by Marco Ferreri and starred Carroll Baker, Gastone Moschin, William Berger and Renato Salvatori. It tells the story of three men entangled in a relationship with the wonderful Carroll, who can't choose between them. Following their suggestion, she lures them to an isolated villa, like a real harem with the roles inverted. Th…
Dalle Ardenne all'Inferno
** 2021 Stock. The CD features a 2 folds Digipack plasticized box in limited edition, numbered from 0001 to 1000 in the second page. Inside a 24x36 cm poster featuring original artworks, rare pics and liner notes edited by Claudio Fuiano. ** Beat Records makes use of a particular care for this miracolus edition fo the original motion picture soundtrack of the movie Dalle Ardenne all'Inferno. Previously edited in LP and CD, out of stock since a lot of time, was known for only 5 surviving Mono tra…
Bandits in Rome
Quartet Records and Paramount Pictures present the world premiere release of the highly requested score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai for Alberto de Martino’s gangster film Bandits In Rome (aka Roma Come Chicago). The film stars John Cassavetes as professional hold-up man Corda, who teams up with hot-headed Enrico to carry out his heists. Corda has principles – as a family man, he refuses to kill anyone – but when he is arrested after their latest heist, his uncontrolled companion starts …
Situazioni del Terzo Mondo (LP) / Transvitaexpress
This bundle collects the two most recent Cinedelic / Soave releases:Maria Teresa Luciani "Situazioni del Terzo Mondo" (1972)Marcello Giombini "Transvitaexpress" (1974)Maria Teresa Luciani "Situazioni del Terzo Mondo" (1972)**Edition of 300.** Maria Teresa Luciani’s 1972 LP, Situazioni del terzo Mondo, is shrouded in mystery and intrigue. For years, debate has swirled around the identity of its creator, with recent reissues of other albums in the artist’s catalog by Finders Keepers and Cinedelic …
Situazioni del Terzo Mondo
** Edition of 100 Colored LP ** The world of Italian Library music surprises us again with an extremely evocative record. Released in 1972 with the name of Maria Teresa Luciani but really produced and composed by her brother Maestro Antonino Riccardo Luciani, Situazioni del Terzo Mondo ranks among the most important abstract soundscape records. Spontaneous tribalisms tainted with concrete sounds support the looming psychedelic vein, with different solutions from track to track.
Transvitaexpress - Racconto Psicologico dell'Aldilà
** Multi-Colored Vinyl, white / grey / black marbled (Locomotive Marbled Smoke). Edition of 400 copies on marbled vinyl, includes OBI.** Soave presents Transvitaexpress - Racconto psicologico dell'aldilà by Marcello Giombini. One of the weirdest italian album ever released. "Transvitaexpress is the sonorous realization of an idea that had been developing in me for some time and to which the encounter with the poet Barbarino gave the decisive push. I used the "tape-sound" technique, that is the …
Le Streghe
Digitmovies is proud to present the complete OST by Piero Piccioni for the 1967 anthology film ''Le streghe'' (aka ''The Witches'' - Les sorcières), also including episodes ''La strega bruciata viva'' ( ''The Witch Scorched Alive'') by Luchino Visconti and ''Una sera come le altre'' (''A Night Like Any Other'') by Vittorio De Sica, as well as "La Terra vista dalla Luna" by Pier Paolo Pasolini - produced by Dino de Laurentiis.Remastered from the original tapes, that were kept in the private archi…
Senza Movente
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records and GDM present the first vinyl edition of the killer Ennio Morricone score for Senza Movente (aka Sans Mobile Apparent), a 1971 French crime thriller about an investigator (Jean-Louis Trintignant) looking into the murders of seemingly unrelated people, all shot down by a mysterious assassin. Morricone’s score perfectly captures the paranoia taking over the French Riviera with an eerie main theme adorned with the whistling of Alessandro Alessandroni and a disti…