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La Banda Del Gobbo
Tomas Milian as an actor, Umberto Lenzi as director and Franco Micalizzi to take care of the soundtrack in a 1977 poliziottesco classic. "La Banda Del Gobbo" is the third installment in the saga where Milian plays the legendary Er Monnezza, along with that of the most famous mechanic in Italian cinema here he doubles up to also play that of his brother: Il Gobbo, of whom Er Monnezza is very proud because he is seen as a winner (although a bandit regularly involved in robberies). Here at the wor…
Il Giustiziere Sfida La Città
The music composed by Micalizzi undeniably emerges for its adherence to the narrative of the story adding dynamic and lyrical value to the various scenes, all the more reason this to consider it an absolutely successful soundtrack in terms of interplay between sound and images. The means used by the Maestro to achieve this result are the classics of the period: Tight hard-funk rhythms, guitars effected with wha-wha, woodwinds in great relief, piano played in the medium-low register, clavinets po…
Delitto sull'Autostrada
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…
Napoli Violenta
The original soundtrack of the 1976 cult movie 'Napoli Violenta', composed by Maestro Franco Micalizzi, sees a deserved reissue. A classic 70s Italian crime soundtrack! There's a quality to the music that really matches the badass image on the front – a bold, forceful approach that has the upbeat numbers strutting along with plenty of pride – and which has the mellower, more brooding tracks working themes that are simple, but which pack the same force as the revolver on the cover. Franco Micaliz…
Atto IV
2024 Stock. Atto is one of Vladimir Tarasov's long evolving experimental music projects. Tarasov's percussion merges with the hypnotically repetitive synth sequence into one long piece. All instruments are played by Tarasov himself. Originally dispensed by state label Мелодия (Melodya) in 1989, the 4th ‘Atto’ volume features Vladimir effortless rolling out on a 35 minute piece in two parts built from pranging percussion, hunting horns and electronics. It’s a hypnotic study in sublime tension and…
Confessione di un commissario di Polizia...
For the first time on 7’’, the two grooviest tracks from the soundtrack composed by Riz Ortolani for “Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della Repubblica” (aka, “Confessions of a Police Captain”), the renowned 1971 crime drama by Damiano Damiani, starring Franco Nero at the peak of his career. On Side A, “Serena e Lomunno” is a jazzy spell performed by an exceptional quartet - unfortunately uncredited - consisting of bass, electric guitar, drums, and piano. On Side B, the qu…
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 2/Issue 2 (Magazine)
New issue of Albion's premier wyrd journal! This issue contains some of the best writing you will find on psychogeography, horror cinema, dark literature and strategies for metaphysical resistance. Thirteen all new articles!
Contents:
The Deep Shadows that Light Can Cast: The Making of Night of the Demon, Cecil Williamson, and British Witchcraftby Judith Noble
‘One Day, Emily Found a Thing’: The Childhood Eco-Ephemera of 1970s Sunday Constitutionalsby Jez Conolly
Solvitur Ambulando: Arthur Mache…
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 2/Issue 1 (Magazine)
More reflections on Albion's wyrd underbelly. This issue of Undefined Boundary is a special themed issue on the Daughters of Psychick Albion.
Contents:
‘Many Wonderous Revelations’: In the Footsteps of Three Daughters of Psychick Norfolkby Sally Huxtable
Theo Brown: Folklore, Dartmoor, and the Underworldby Stephen Canner
Ithell Colquhoun: Following the Ancient Scentby Lally Macbeth
The curious case of Gladys Mitchellby Hazel Smoczynska
Catherine Blakeby Linda Landers
“Two Steps On The Water” – …
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 1/Issue 2 (Magazine)
Second issue of the new journal dedicated to the psychedelic, numinous, and wyrd underbelly of British culture. Considerably bigger than the first, coming in at 170 pages. A5 perfect bound book.
"A Britain where Tory aristocracy is not the norm, where the spirit of anarchic magic and rebellious art are the guiding principles – a Psychick Albion in place of a 'Great' Britain"
Contents
Halloween III: The Season of the Witchby Phil Smith
John Akomfrah’s Hauntology of the Archiveby Justin Hopper
Alb…
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion - Volume 1/Issue 1 (Magazine)
From William Blake to Julian Cope, there have been innumerable seers who have engaged with their British locales in modes of hallucinatory intensity. These visionaries reassert a radical potentiality to the question of Albion which remains perpetually relevant. Undefined Boundary will explore this psychedelic and numinous underbelly of British culture with a view to keeping the sacred flame alive.
Contents:
Gog, Magog and the Stubborn Illusion: The enduring resonance of Andrew Sinclair’s ‘Albion…
Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 4 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* "Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Contents:
Mini Detectorists by Duncan Willis
Anatomy of a Scene by Ian Edwards
Hours Peaceful and Things Mundane: Detectorists and the Non-Violent Approach to Folkloric Storytelling by George Parr
Veronica's House by Tracy Hetherington & Phillip Brown
“All the minorities covered”: Landscapes, Englishnesses and …
Waiting for You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 3 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* Issue 3 of the zine dedicated to Detectorists, the most charming and magical TV comedy of recent years. A5 zine, 60 pages perfect bound.
"Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Waiting for You: A Detectorists Zine - Issue 1 (Magazine)
*2024 stock* A new zine looking at some of the hidden aspects of the TV series Detectorists from unique and unexpected angles. A5 zine, 56 pages.
"Waiting for You is an appropriate tribute to Detectorists: filled with simple pleasures, gleeful diversions and the occasional fleeting spectre." Fortean Times, August 2022.
Contents:
-Waiting for You by Cormac Pentecost-Phantom Signals by David Colohan-Towards a Psychogeography of Danebury by David Petts-The Call of all the Songbirds: Interviews with…
Transformation Through Love (Book + CD)
“This is a profound DreamSong from one of the most immaculate and individual artists I have ever known, or known of.” - David Tibet
Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não
A joint release between Litoral Records and Três Selos in Brazil. One of the first independently released Brazilian records, Alcides Neves’ debut LP ‚Tempo de Fratura’ is reissued for the first time on vinyl, alongside his second release ‚Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não‘. Hailing from the Brazilian North East, Alcides Neves released his debut album a few years after moving to São Paulo, in 1979. The LP’s release coincided with the emergence of the city’s seminal Vanguarda Paulista movement, which led so…
Tempo De Fratura
A joint release between Litoral Records and Três Selos in Brazil. One of the first independently released Brazilian records, Alcides Neves’ debut LP ‚Tempo de Fratura’ is reissued for the first time on vinyl, alongside his second release ‚Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não‘. Hailing from the Brazilian North East, Alcides Neves released his debut album a few years after moving to São Paulo, in 1979. The LP’s release coincided with the emergence of the city’s seminal Vanguarda Paulista movement, which led so…
Tears in Limbo
Big Tip! *200 copies limited edition* Tears In Limbo consists of six tracks of lo-fi sound collages in which Goldblum more than ever blur the lines between composition and improvisation, live performing and home recording, raw expression and an obsessive eye for detail.
Minnet
Edition of 200. This debut-LP is structured like a long-form piece split up into smaller parts, constructed with manipulated field recordings, synthesis experimentations, layered harmonies and textured sound design. One gets the sense the material journeys through a narrative in disarray, depicted through numerous undisclosed, ambiguous perspectives — there are parts that are melodic, radiant and vaguely warm, like suddenly having tuned in to an imprint of some long-forgotten person’s experience…
Turbulence And Pulse
Black vinyl Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse, out May 5th 2023. Gamedze’s critically-acclaimed debut album Dialectic Soul was released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in July 2020. Around the release of that record, with friend and writer Teju Adeleye he organized and participated in a joint online discussion “Poesis,” with historian Robin D.G. Kelley and others. One of the no…
Blow Up
Japanese edition. 180 gram vinyl, comes with Ob A fantastic electric album from one of the most unique bassists of the 70s – Blow Up is one of the most sough-after titles from the acclaimed Three Blind Mice catalog. Isao Suzuki's Blow-Up is virtuosity and class all rolled up into one. A great combination of upbeat blues and mellow grooves! The album was awarded "Jazz of Japan" Award and the Jazz Disc Award of "Swing Journal" in 1973."This adventurous set finds Suzuki and his band mates (drumme…