Savana Selvaggia
Eight years after the masterpiece Africa Oscura, Four Flies revisits Giuliano Sorgini’s afro-dark universe, unearthing and compiling another suite of previously unreleased music recorded by the Roman composer for television documentaries in the mid-1970s. Savana Selvaggia is a tribute to the continent that left the deepest mark on Sorgini’s creative trajectory. Traversing ancestral percussion, synthesizers, enigmatic themes, and mystical expanses almost like a spiritual journey, Savana Selvaggia…
La Planete Sauvage - Original Soundtrack Recording
Gatefold cover. Grey-area reissue. Animated sci-fi masterpiece La Planète Sauvage (a.k.a. Fantastic Planet), winner at Cannes Film Festival in 1973, is a bizarre and beautiful film. Towering blue-skinned figures, tiny humanoids in the midst of revolt, and drug-induced Tantric sex transport viewers to a truly magical setting. Composer Alain Goraguer creates an equally hypnotic score from a palette of effects-laden guitars, flutes, Fender Rhodes and strings. While the lush arrangements are reminis…
Dossier
Another four Umiliani favourites remastered and reissued on seven inch for the first time. Dirty disco business on the A and super psych sounds on the B.
Dossier is taken from Moggi - News! News! News! (Sound Work Shop) 1979
Discomania is from The Soundwork-Shoppers - Discomusic (Sound Work Shop) 1978
Mondo Dove Vai? (Complesso Beat Con Effetti Elettronici Version) from Piero Umiliani – Questo Sporco Mondo Meraviglioso (Omicron) 1971
Hippies (Part 2) from Piero Umiliani – Psichedelica (Omicron) …
Electric Telepathy
Pleasurewood return with 'Electric Telepathy', their second full-length LP offering Simla Space Funk, Psych-Library and Vintage-Cinematic Raga-Rock grooves. This new offering from the band embraces more of their vintage Hindi Cinema soundtrack influences — "Chump Change", "The Hoverfly" and "RAMMM" could easily fit into the middle of an R.D. Burman score, each with their incongruous synthesis of different genres, infectious percussion, classical modes and funk chops.
There is also a slight sweep…
Violence!
Violence! brings the electrifying legacy of maestro Franco Micalizzi to the spotlight once again. Based on the celebrated soundtrack for the cult movie Il Cinico, L’infame E Il Violento, this release captures the raw energy and kinetic rhythm that made the film an enduring reference point for generations of soundtrack lovers and cinema fans.
A true magnet for genre enthusiasts, the film features an unforgettable, stellar cast, including Maurizio Merli, Tomas Milian, and John Saxon. Beyond its im…
I Gres 1
A really must-have for any Library Breaks DJ vinyl collector. This is Silvano Chimenti and Romano Rizzati (alias Walter Rizzati) I Gres Vol.1, a sought-after funky breaks Library monster featuring the noted track "Restless" made famous by DJ Leacy, and containing other dope breaks and beats. I Gres were a studio group only founded by Silvano Chimenti that recorded 3 studio albums, recording Funky Library music. Band name brings the members signs: the "G" of organist Giorgio Carnini , "R" s…
Tunis Hotel Stereo
In the years after independence, Tunisia made an unlikely bet: tourism. Beach resorts rose along the coast, each one trying to outshine the next, and each one needing a band to entertain their guests. A whole generation of musicians grew up on those hotel stages - sharing bills with James Brown, Claude François and the Mingus Dynasty - and what came out of it was a small revolution. Funk played on Tunisian instruments. Disco with an oud in it. Reggae carried back from the island of Kerkennah. A …
Marrakech / La Luz Del Fin Del Mundo
We return to the domestic scene with one of the most coveted items for Spanish record collectors. All sorts of stories circulate about this record: some claim to have seen it decades ago at a fair, while others recount how a fellow collector managed to snag a copy in the early days of the internet. The truth is that those who can boast of having the original on their shelf can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
A true rara avis recorded by Expresion in 1974 for the Musimar label, this legend…
Jacques Tati Swing !
"Watching a movie by Tati is a surprising experience; in his films, sound and music speak more than do words, overtaking the conventional discourse – and boredom – of adulthood. Hulot remains silent, or mumbles. Tati knows all about the noises of the modern world: beeps, rings, crackles, pneumatic drill, cars, mechanical, electrical and rubbery sounds, the high heels of secretaries and typewriters, factory noises, creaking doors, sighing chairs, machines and technical machines, franglais, vacuum…
Savana Selvaggia
Savana Selvaggia collects two previously unreleased tracks by Giuliano Sorgini, highlighting one of the most visionary and experimental aspects of his library music: from an imagined African landscape through atmospheric melodies and analogue electronics ("I misteri del mondo"), to a mystical sound world where African and Middle Eastern influences merge with futuristic electronic textures and Krautrock-inspired rhythms (“Arabian Synthesizer”).
Crafted in his own Cat & Fox Studio in Rome, these …
Silver Music
For close to a decade the sound of Italian cinema and television ran through four musicians from Rome. I Marc 4 were the rhythm section the country's leading composers reached for first, and between sessions they cut a long run of library albums under their own name. The scarcest corner of that catalogue sits on two companion imprints, Silver Music and Silver Men, issued in 1976 and seldom seen since. This new edition draws the strongest material from both onto a single LP, in the original milit…
Universal Dub
Universal Dub brings together four pillars of dub’s golden era—King Tubby, Scientist, Bunny Tom Tom and Barnabas—in a definitive collection that celebrates the raw innovation and deep rhythmic spirituality of Jamaican studio culture. Remastered and curated for both longtime devotees and newcomers, Universal Dub showcases the producers’ inventive studio techniques, subterranean basslines and immersive echo-laden soundscapes that helped shape modern music.
King Tubby’s pioneering studio architectu…
Lupin The Third Original Soundtrack 3
Yuji Ohno’s Original Soundtrack from Lupin III is a masterclass in stylish, cinematic jazz that helped define the sound of a beloved franchise. From instantly memorable themes to supple, groove-driven arrangements, this album blends cool sophistication with playful energy, delivering music that stands on its own as a landmark jazz-pop soundtrack.
Ohno crafts a vivid sonic world that moves effortlessly between noirish lounge, funky brass-driven grooves, romantic balladry, and upbeat, swinging sma…
Lupin The Third Original Soundtrack 2
Yuji Ohno’s Original Soundtrack from Lupin III is a masterclass in stylish, cinematic jazz that helped define the sound of a beloved franchise. From instantly memorable themes to supple, groove-driven arrangements, this album blends cool sophistication with playful energy, delivering music that stands on its own as a landmark jazz-pop soundtrack.
Ohno crafts a vivid sonic world that moves effortlessly between noirish lounge, funky brass-driven grooves, romantic balladry, and upbeat, swinging sma…
Lupin The Third Original Soundtrack
Yuji Ohno’s Original Soundtrack from Lupin III is a masterclass in stylish, cinematic jazz that helped define the sound of a beloved franchise. From instantly memorable themes to supple, groove-driven arrangements, this album blends cool sophistication with playful energy, delivering music that stands on its own as a landmark jazz-pop soundtrack.
Ohno crafts a vivid sonic world that moves effortlessly between noirish lounge, funky brass-driven grooves, romantic balladry, and upbeat, swinging sma…
Fortune Teller
"Turn the card and follow your destiny into a dreamscape of vintage magic. Fortune Teller is a deck stacked with analogue glamour and midnight omens where fuzz and mysticism collide. But who is the mysterious Empress? Some say she’s a soothsayer of sound whose grooves are eternal. Others say she’s a front for instrumental masterminds Paul Osborne of Project Gemini and Paul Elliott of Pleasurewood, paying homage to library labels like Sonoton, MP 2000 and CAM. No matter the truth, this is an albu…
Black Power
Two real cinematic gemstones one 45. A companion single to the beloved 2x10“ vinyl compilation series The Tape Masters that keeps unearthing rare groove treasures and unreleased recordings from the vaults of film music extraordinaire Peter Thomas. Exclusive on this single and for the first time on vinyl ever is the rare German language version of „Black Power“, sung by a certain Donna Gaines. Later of course known as Donna Summer, the tune is her first recording as a solo artist at just 20 years…
La Luce dell'Alba
La Luce dell’Alba is the new LP by Jolly Mare, conceived as an imaginary meeting with Piero Umiliani (on the centenary of his birth) and made possible by access to the original multitrack tapes provided by the Maestro’s family. Recorded between the legendary Sound Workshop in Rome and Oister Studio in Milan, the album weaves rearrangements and new overdubs, creating a suggestive dialogue between past and present. An ambitious, visionary project that renews Umiliani’s sonic legacy through Jolly M…
Delitto sull'Autostrada (7")
Tava Tava Rare is pleased to announce the first release on 7" of Franco Micalizzi's main theme to the film “Delitto Sull'Autostrada”, directed by Bruno Corbucci and starring the Italian-Cuban-American actor Tomas Milian. Eclectic, innovator, full of life and energy, out of the ordinary, the composer is best known for his scores in poliziotteschi films such as “Roma A Mano Armata”, “Napoli Violenta” or “Italia A Mano Armata”, whose theme was used also in Quentin Tarantino's “Death Proof”. The mus…
Woman's Colours
One of the most iconic Italian library music albums ever, Woman’s Colours by the Giancarlo Barigozzi Group (with Sergio Farina and Oscar Rocchi) emerged from Milan’s vibrant studio scene. Originally released in 1974 under the supervision of Fabio Fabor, it’s a refined concept work blending jazz-funk, jazz-rock, bossa nova and exotica, featuring Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, fuzz guitars and expressive flutes, balancing groove and elegance. Over time it has attained cult status, now regarded as a cor…