Tenebre
Few copies available, coming from a dead stock. This pulse-pounding thriller score occupies an odd place in the history of Italian prog rock legends Goblin: although this isn't an official Goblin album, it was crafted by three of the group's four members under the moniker Simonetti, Morante, Pignatelli. Ironically, it has a stronger Goblin-esque feel to it than the last few official Goblin scores that proceeded it. It's no coincidence that this 1982 score marked a reunion with Dario Argento, the…
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 …
Svezia Inferno e Paradiso
Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso is one of the most important scores in Piero Umiliani's lengthy career. He was an eclectic and internationally attentive artist, capable of genial expressions through jazz (I Soliti Ignoti), pop-funk (Baba Yaga, La Ragazza Fuoristrada), Western (Crisantemi Per Un Branco di carogne) and even electronic experimentation (such as his score for the unknown TV serial Il Mondo dei Romani, 1972).Director Luigi Scattini, whose partnership with Piero Umiliani was also a friendsh…
Terrore Nello Spazio
Restocked, few copies available of this superbly sinister musical score by Gino Marinuzzi Jr. fans of early electronic should appreciate this excellent release. "It was one of the eeriest film scores of its period, utilizing the composer's considerable skills within both the orchestral and electronic idioms. Marinuzzi's music features striking orchestral passages, written in an atonal mode but fully accessible -- strings and percussion instruments shimmer and swell, and wind, reed, and horn…
Tutti i colori del buio
As part of a devoted series of releases focusing on Bruno Nicolai’s soundtrack music to the films of Edwige Fenech, Finders Keepers proudly unveil what is perhaps the crowning moment for both actress and composer with the film that inaugurated them (alongside director Sergio Martino) into the critical Giallo royal family in the early 1970s. Presented here with previously unpressed tracks as an alternative to the extremely rare 1973 Gemelli library edition, this Finders Keepers special release in…
Abnormal Sensations
Lucky restock, few copies available Collectively known under their production pop group moniker The Pawnshop, Italian Giallo/Spaghetti legends Alessandro Alessandroni, Giuliano Sorgini and Giulia De Mutiis (using their Giallo-psych alter egos of Braen, Raskovich and Kema) would reconvene behind the curtain in 1973 to craft this lost full-length LP as a mythical addition to their tiny group discography.Pin-pointing a bona fide crossroads between the composers’ individual library grails The Under…
Il Mondo dei Romani
Restocked!! "Il mondo dei romani" is one of Maestro Piero Umiliani's most atypical sound library/synch albums, recorded in 1972 during a period of great electronic experimentation (partly because of production reasons, partly responding to an immense desire to express his creative skills). Unique in his discography, the album joins paradigmatic Roman classicism with the most genuine electronic experimentation, which in some parts reminds us of Kraftwerk. A great follow-up to the electro-synth so…
Tra Scienza e Fantascienza
Restocked!! "Tra scienza e fantascienza", is an album of histrionic Piero Umiliani recorded under the pseudonym Moggi. A Master gifted with a never ending passion for music, innovator by vocation, experimenter in his genetic code now at ease with synths in order to forge sound that could be reductively termed as avantgarde. Timeless atmospheres, alien hypnotic sonorities, modern and charmingly retro, minimal and complex arranged with an impressive taste for the unknown substance the Maestro…
Black Emanuelle: Orient Reportage
Nico Fidenco's 'Black Emanuelle: Orient Reportage' aka 'Black Emanuelle Goes East' is one of the seminal soundtracks that will set you on an Italian groove odyssey! The film is probably the most depraved of all the volumes of the Emanuelle series. Maestro Fidenco relies heavily on layered strings, horns, flutes, violins and an array of exotic instruments and aims for eclecticism in playing with versions of the main theme. No one is ever the same after... 'Black Emanuelle'! 45RPM audiophil…
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…
Bandidos
Egisto Macchi composed an excellent score that gives to the scenes the pathos, which is lacking most of the times in the interpretation. With the help of this cool music, the breathtaking succession of scenes and the compelling story make the viewers to forget they are just watching a fiction, and not a true story. Bandidos is the story of a great revenge and action-packed from the very start.
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…
Violence!
One of the most renowned "polizziottesco" soundtrack ever, "Il cinico, l'infame e il violento" (here with the name "Violence!") is Franco Micalizzi at his best, funky and groovey. This is the first complete CD edition!
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…
Assassinio Al Cimitero Etrusco
I’d already known Sergio Martino for some years, as his team produced another cult film by director Lucio Fulci, "Paura nella città dei morti viventi" (aka "City of the living dead") in 1980. The following year, Sergio decided to produce a movie with a compelling plot, a psychological thriller with horror elements. The film was set in Volterra and its surrounding neighborhoods, which at one time were the political and social heart of Etruscan society. The main theme of the score is a piece …
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…