Library & Soundtracks / Jazz-Funk

Fortuna Records deliver a stellar compilation of real-life magic created by immigrants from Yemen, in Tel Aviv, from the mid 70's to the early 80's. Ranging from extremely rare to previously unreleased, these tracks are a result of a unique scene which blended funk, soul, jazz & disco with traditional Yemenite rhythms & sounds. The Haunting Sounds of Yemenite-Israeli Funk 1973-84 collects rare and unreleased material from the mid seventies to the early eighties, recorded by immigrants from Yemen…

**In process of stocking** It’s been a few short months since Badge Époque Ensemble released their self titled debut, an ambiguous collection of woozy, narcotized funk. And yet already we have Nature, Man and Woman - a simmering new platter containing 3 songs, producing 26 minutes of dank flute-oriented atmosphere.The disco-sleeved 12" EP provides a revealing glimpse of a musically omnivorous approach. On Badge Theme we find the group upping the ante of the sound of their debut, unspooling 14 mi…

**500 copies** Timing is a collection of sixteen records intended for audiovisual and media professionals which came out between 1975 and 1977, and initiated by Jacky Giordano who took care of the first six albums. The ten others were developed by Pierre Arvay and nearly all published in partnership with Music De Wolfe.Timing Archives is a 14-tracks LP with plenty of funky breaks and hard grooves, including afro-cuban rhythms, wild jazzy sounds, fuzz guitar, strings, sax, clavinet, flute...

East Side Supply is the meeting of two producers and multi-instrumentalists, Chris Lujan from the Bay Area (Life of Grime) and Alexander Korostinsky from Reno (Whatitdo Archive Group). Both work on tape with analogue gear, and the two songs of this debut 45 were written and recorded at Korostinsky's Archive Group Studios. The idea behind it is the delicatessen and bodega culture of New York's Upper East Side in the 1980s, heard through classic East Coast hip-hop and through the Italian library r…

Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities. Please note: these are original copies that may show minor sleeve wear due to long-term storage. The vinyl is in excellent condition. Issued in 1997 by the Italian label Plastic Records, Harlem Shuffle collects fourteen tracks from the soundtracks and the soul and funk records that grew up around Black cinema in the late sixties and seventies. The sleeve calls them "14 essential cult tracks from the Black Cinema", digitally remastered. Compiled by Alessandro Q…

2020 180g clear vinyl re-issue in an edition of 100 numbered copies on Loneos Editions of the 1977 library album of sci-fi/cool jazz by Sandro Brugnolini (Narassa, Fuem) in disguise originally on Gemelli. Still sealed with slipcase and obi.

Excellent rare, obscure and diverse late 1970's library album, from jazz-funk to romantic melodies, on Pontevecchio (the label's sole release) by Egisto Macchi's son. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

2015 re-issue on 180g vinyl on Sonor Music Editions of the 1977 library album of superb easy listening / jazz funk fusion originally on Fonovideo composed by Rocchi (also as Chiarosi) and Borgazzi (Fabor).

Very rare original edition on Edipan of the much sought after 1976 library album of superb easy listening / jazz funk fusion.

1973 promo-only library album on RCA with cinematic bossa and soul-jazz music by Gianni Dell'Orso (Proluton), Nicoletta Bozzai (larth) and Aristide Bascerano (Baiok). Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Groovy and great 1970 library album on Tele Music blending jazz-rock, avant-garde percussion and psychedelic funk with lots of vibraphone. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities Please note: these are original copies that may show minor sleeve wear due to long-term storage. The vinyl is in excellent condition. Electric harpsichord cascades over thunderous drum breaks. Fuzz guitar tears through blistering psychedelic workouts. Bossa nova rhythms collide with proto-disco grooves. This is Phase 6 Super Stereo, the fifth entry in Plastic Records' excavation of Italian library music archives and one of the most sonically adventurous compila…

Hammond organs swirl through sun-drenched compositions. Wah-wah guitars dance with bossa nova rhythms. Edda Dell'Orso's ethereal vocals drift over psychedelic instrumentals. This is Masoch Club Entertainment, one of the finest compilations ever issued by Plastic Records - a swinging assemblage of mod numbers, funky groovers, and jazzed-up instrumentals that collectively define the sound of Italian easy listening at its most sophisticated. Compiled by Dave Masoch with liner notes by Michael Myers…

Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities Please note: these are original copies that may show minor sleeve wear due to long-term storage. The vinyl is in excellent condition. The name I Gres encodes its own membership roster: the G stands for organist Giorgio Carnini, the R for maestro Roberto Pregadio, the E for drummer Enzo Restuccia, and the S for guitarist Silvano Chimenti, the group's driving force and de facto leader. Together they formed one of the most sought-after studio ensembles in the Ital…

Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities Please note: these are original copies that may show minor sleeve wear due to long-term storage. The vinyl is in excellent condition.  Call it psychedelic. Call it lounge. Call it beat, or jazz-funk, or something that doesn't have a name yet. The truth is, no single word captures what happens when four Italian studio musicians lock into a groove at 10 AM, knowing their work will soundtrack a car commercial, a crime drama, or a soft-core feature they'll never se…

Lucky restock. A Journey Into The 70's Italian Police! Screeching tyres on rain-slicked Roman cobblestones. A Fiat 131 careening through Trastevere at midnight. The dull thud of a silenced Beretta. And underneath it all, the relentless pulse of wah-wah guitar, pounding drums, and funky flute lines that refuse to let go. Piombo Rovente captures the sonic DNA of Italy's most visceral cinematic era: the poliziottesco. These were films born from the "Years of Lead"—a nation caught between political …

With cinematic sweep and jazz-funk verve,Jumping captures Roberto Fogu and Calogero Taormina at a peak of orchestral invention. Their 1977 collaboration brims with lush arrangements, supple grooves, and unmistakable Italian soundtrack flair, reanimating the golden age of library music with every cut.

Big Tip! The story of The Diamonds Four has the kind of archival complexity that serious collectors live for. Mario Molino - classical guitarist, jazz musician, and one of the more versatile and elusive figures in Italian library music - first released this session on the obscure B.M.P. imprint in the early 1970s, in a pressing so limited it barely registered. It later surfaced again on the Music Scene label under a different title, with different track names, credited to the pseudonym Luigi Fer…

Bomb! French composer Alain Goraguer who first made a name for himself as a sideman and arranger for Serge Gainsbourg wrote very few soundtracks, but amongst them, the legendary La Planète Sauvage (1973) is an absolute staple of France’s essential music. During that same period of time, Goraguer wrote two rare and beautiful scores using the same masterclass arrangements. On L’Affaire Dominici (1975), Alain Goraguer creates a theme of great melodic clarity from a palette of breathy flutes, clavin…

The discography of the phantom Gruppo Sound exceeds over thirty titles published in an undefined time frame between the Eighties and the Nineties. However, there is very little information about this curious pseudonym. it is possible to find a library music album by Gruppo Sound inside the Canopo, Deneb, Flower, Monosound Records and Teams catalogues, all managed by Flipper Music publishing group, but both the creators and the musicians have never been the same. Gruppo Sound is only a collective…

Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta (aka. Blazing Magnum: Strange Shadows In An Empty Room) is a cop movie directed in year 1976 by Alberto De Martino and starring Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau, Tisa Farrow, and Gayle Hunnicutt. It was co-produced by Italy and Canada. An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. Later on, he desperately starts to use his own brutal methods to find the killer, but the truth turns out to be …

The son of a judge who trained as a lawyer before abandoning the profession for music, Piero Piccioni brought to Italian cinema a compositional intelligence that set him apart from almost every contemporary. His collaborators included Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Francesco Rosi - a list that places him closer to the art film than the genre picture. Yet it is in the crime and thriller scores of the 1970s that his work finds some of its most inventive expression,…

Considered by many one of the most gifted and outstanding players in the Electone community thanks to his fresh, energetic, rhythmic and sometimes humorous style of playing, from 1975 to 1977 Shigeo Sekitō released a four-LP album set titled Special Sound Series for the iconic Nippon Columbia. On the first chapter of this series, Sekitō revisits, in his own colourful style, compositions such as "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" by Stevie Wonder, "Oh, My Love" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, "Andalu…

Few albums capture Italian library music at its most purposefully conceived as Nel Mondo Del Lavoro. Originally released in 1972 on Sermi - one of the foundational labels of the Italian production music scene, co-founded by Sergio Pagoni and Michelangelo Cunsolo in close orbit with Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone's world - the album was commissioned as the soundtrack to a RAI television documentary series on the petroleum industry, Sapere: Il Petrolio. What Rino De Filippi built from that brie…

*2022 stock* Digitmovies releases for the very first first time on CD the complete OST by Francesco De Masi from the movie "African Story" (aka "The Manipulator") directed in 1971 by Fred Wilson (Marino Girolami) and starring Sylva Koscina, Stephen Boyd, Michel Kirner, Rita Oriolo Forzano. A famous singer (Boyd) and his female fan fall in love and they marry secretly. They leave for Africa for their honeymoon where a dangerous adventure waits for them. This CD was possible thanks to the mono mas…

An incredible album that's as evocative as its title – one that blends together strings and electronics into a sublime suite of sound library grooves. Originally released in 1972, can be put in the field of so-called "library music," records made for use in movies and TV productions, commercials, and for similar purposes to enhance the tension of the atmosphere in very dramatic scenes or accompany the more mellow and relaxed moments with lush harmony carpets. And of all these library albums, thi…

When we talk about Tullio de Piscopo (Naples, 1946) we’re talking of a living legend of drums, whose career dates back to 1969. In 1971, tired of commuting from Naples to Milan, he moved to Milan for good where he joined as a drummer the group of Gianni Basso and Oscar Valdambrini. Shortly after, he recorded his very first single on a 45 under the moniker of Jujuy, for Aldo Pagani’s label Analogy, with cat. number 'TRE 0'.Recorded in 1971, but only published in 1973, Fastness and Coagulation are…

The music composed by Piero Umiliani for Baba Yaga / Devil Witch (1973, Corrado Farina) – the film inspired by the ultra pop comic books of Guido Crepax, Valentina – is one of the most mysterious and fascinating works to be found in the corpus of the Maestro. Of this maudit work that experts considered lost only two tracks survived, those that we present here for the first time in a single 45 RPM: Open Space, a blazing up-tempo acid jazz with psychedelic insets and galloping bass tones that was …

An unreleased before album recorded in 1973 in Rome at the Recording Studios "Sound WorkShop" of Piero Umiliani, and a stand-out Italian Library LP to say the least. The whole record oozes a dreamy, mysterious, surrealist atmosphere enhaced by the vivid instrumentation that open a series of mesmerising pieces which range from the gentle to the hypnotic. Eastern sounds, ritual horns and assorted metal banging and scrapping add to the whole mix for a landmark sound that will evolve in  delirious a…

Lucky Restock - Limited Quantities. Please note: Due to extended storage, items may show minor signs of shelf wear.  Tight drums lock into rumbling basslines. Wah-wah guitar cuts through smoky jazz arrangements. Electric piano dances across thirteen swift shots of fast-paced funk and slow-burning tension. This is Pulsar Music Ltd., one of the finest examples of Italian poliziottesco scoring and a landmark album in the career of Enrico Pieranunzi, who would go on to become one of the most celebra…