Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Ennio Morricone is a unique figure in the history of film music: composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works.. Morricone was born in Rome, the son of a jazz trumpet player, in 1928. He was a precocious musician, starting to compose at the age of six, and studied harmony and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Vamos A Matar, Companeros
"Vamos a matar, compañeros" is a western film of 1970 directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance. To assemble this album (only a 45 rpm single was issued) the stereo master tapes of the original recording session were used and properly restored.
Escalation
Complete original motion picture score composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 cult movie “Escalation”, directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Claudine Auger, Lino Capolicchio and Gabriele Ferzetti. Luca (Lino Capolicchio), son of a prominent Italian industrialist (Gabriele Ferzetti), lives as a hippy in London, away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business by any means. Luca is forced to return to Italy, where he is first jailed …
i Crudeli (The Cruel Ones)
Supremely atmospheric Ennio Morricone score to a lesser known, but nonetheless stylish and satisfying Sergio Corbucci production; a cross between a Spaghetti Western and a wild west road movie, indeed, a fine example of a film that combines both Italian and American western film traditions.
La resa dei conti
The stunning soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 movie La Resa Dei Conti, directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes, is finally available again on vinyl since its original 1968 release on Parade (Italy) and United Artists (USA). The typical Morricone’s western tunes are mixed here with avantgarde sounds and delicate romantic themes. Orchestra directed by Bruno Nicolai, featuring Bruno Battisti D’Amario (guitar), Michele Lacerenza (t…
L'istruttoria e' chiusa. Dimentichi.
A deluxe edition of the soundtrack composed and directed by Ennio Morricone for the 1971 movie L’Istruttoria E’ Chiusa: Dimentichi (The Case Is Closed, Forget It) directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Franco Nero, Georges Wilson, John Steiner. This is one of the best “experimental” scores composed by the Maestro, with an avantgarde style that reminds his works with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. The complete recordings, including two bonus tracks, remastered from the origi…
Il Prefetto di Ferro
The Maestro Morricone’s Mediterranean sounds for the cult movie “Il Prefetto di Ferro” - directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring the Italian cinema legend Giuliano Gemma - are sometimes warm, sometimes hard and sharp. With this score we can easily understand how much the Italian composer know about Sicilian folk music; the wonderful ballad “La Ballata del Prefetto Mori”, with its sad lyrics written by Ignazio Buttitta, is magistrally interpreted by one of the most important voices of …
Giu' La Testa
Few copies available, coming from a dead stock. With classic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone built his reputation as a master of the Western. A key part of these film's unique style was their soundtracks, all of which were crafted by Ennio Morricone: his singular mixture of avant-garde quirks, pop instrumentation, and traditional orchestral romanticism played a crucial role in helping Leone redefine what audiences expected from a Wes…
Indagine Su Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto
Few copies, coming from a dead stock. The phenomenal Italian composer's obscure work for horror, kitsch, and thriller films from his native land is somewhat overlooked in the canon of the man who gave signature to spaghetti Westerns. Such an enormous amount of work in the life of this genius composer is chronicled in cinema and, thanks to Dagored, many of these obscurities are being reissued on vinyl and CD, remastered straight from the original Cinevox archives. His work for the 1970 Ital…
Metti Una Sera A Cena
Few copies coming from a dead stock. For a late-'60s Morricone soundtrack this is a little on the bland, easy listening side. But it's at the very least pleasant, and there are the occasional streaks of eccentricity to be heard here and there. The majority of the tracks are dainty and sunny, if lushly orchestrated, sometimes decorated with Edda Dell'Orso's female vocal scatting, as if to suggest the dawning of a new romance as the curtains are raised on a sparkling Mediterranean day. Some …
The Link (Extrasensorial)
On vinyl, it's the ultra rare Ennio Morricone soundtrack for the 1982 horror/thriller 'The Link' (a.k.a. 'Extrasensorial' or 'Blood Link'), directed by Alberto De Martino. Maestro Morricone delivers a stunning score that is by turns romantic and suspenseful, producing several layered foreground as well as background compositions, and disturbing distortion effects in accordance with the sophisticated mise en scene curated by cinematographer Romano Albani ('Phenomena'/'Inferno') for De Mart…
Chi L'ha Vista Morire?
One of Ennio Morricone's long overlooked masterworks, the collection of eerie, dissonant choral pieces and freaky takes on traditional Italian children's songs that is Chi l'ha vista morire? is as compelling on its own as it is fascinating in its interaction with the 1972 film. While at first celebrating a carefree childhood, then lamenting its helplessness and unavoidable loss, Ennio Morricone's brilliant pieces in the end move on to address darker areas of the human psyche, the hysteric…
Come Un Girotondo
In 1978 Roberto Faenza directed Forza Italia!, a ferocious satire on the power of the Italian Christian Democrat party covering thirty years of Italian political history. The film was withdrawn from the theatres on the day Aldo Moro, President of the Christian Democrats, was kidnapped, and remains banned for over 15 years. Aldo Moro being the one who will end his life recommending (in his handwritten memoirs found in the den of the Red Brigades in via Monte Nevoso in Milan) to see the film 'if o…
Mysticae
"Mysticae" contains the Original TV Soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for the RAI series, "L'uomo e la magia". "Mysticae" was also the first LP published by Cometa. Movie director Sergio Giordana started to work for RAI (Italian State TV) in 1963, and since then he showed his talents for investigation documentaries. In 1972 he proposed and carried out for RAI a mini series titled "L'uomo e la magia". Having the opportunity to develop the series in eight episodes, and that joint to the …
Pathos Bellico
Morricone, Bacalov, Pregadio, Trovajoli, Macchi, Teimar: original music never published before. The music collected in this CD recall the most remarkable phases of armed conflict, in order more or less the usual tragic parable. The emotion aroused by the onset of hostilities in the early operations, employment of a patrol, a displacement, the commotion caused by listening to reports of war or sign of honor to the fallen, or on arrival difficult of rare letters from home, and then panic, the part…
Sardegna
The movie "Sardegna", made €‹in 1972, is part of the 14 documentaries funded and sponsored by Esso, who aimed to bring to the attention of the large international audience the beautiful landscapes, the architecture and art of our wonderful and unique country: Italy. In 1978, RAI broadcast the full series. The same thing happened in the U.S., Germany, Australia, China and other networks of national importance. The series was distributed in schools, in 35mm and 16mm. In 1983 the publica…
La Fidanzata Del Bersagliere
In 1963, when Ennio Morricone composed the music of "La fidanzata del bersagliere", he was only 34 years, but the signs of what would become, like in other previous works, are all there. And this "La fidanzata del bersagliere", is, as far as we can tell, the only job that Morricone has created for the playhouse so-called "light". At that moment, Ennio Morricone is best known and appreciated for the arrangements of some pop music albums of Edoardo Vianello, Luigi Tenco, Rita Pavone, Gianni Morand…
Il Pianeta d'Acqua
In May 1980 the Italian Radio and Television, RAI, put on air on the TV national network a program on the water, a very hot topic. The proposal to RAI of that really interesting topic came by the talented director of documentaries Carlo Alberto Pinelli. Always very attentive to the socio-cultural issues, now Pinelli has got credits for over one hundred and twenty documentary-investigations. The shooting of "Il Pianeta d'Acqua" brought him to travel a good part of the world. Maestro Ennio Morric…
Opposte Esperienze
This beautiful and rich soundtrack, written especially for "Opposte esperienze", shows an artistic sensibility that has no equal in the difficult world of cinema, because it reflects the passions that run and overlap in context and it is particularly attentive to the feelings that disrupt the lives of humans who take turns in the film. Only a keen student of human frailties may report on the musical staff all those feelings that afflict the world daily and Ennio Morricone with his whole exp…
Once Upon A Time In The West
2020 repress, clear vinyl + poster. After the "Dollar Trilogy", Sergio Leone was given a new offer on another western movie that he could not refuse. Following his own rules again, and working on the film story with Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento, he directed the monumental "Once upon a time in the West", featuring the American actors Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson among others.Each character is strongly stereotyped here, a fact emphasized by the motion picture soundtrack, once again del…
A Fistful of Dollars / Per un Pugno di Dollari
**2020 repress. Red vinyl + poster** Year 1964. Almost out of nowhere, the little-known and regarded director Sergio Leone transposes into a western key a film by Akira Kurosawa, and by putting together all the right pieces, adding a bit of intuition, lays down new rules for the 'spaghetti western' genre, giving way to an endless series of imitations."A Fistful of Dollars" would not have the same impact without the inimitable music written by Ennio Morricone, who had curiously been an old elemen…