Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene
Beat Records reissues a classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Giallo film "Le foto proibite di una Signora per bene" (aka "The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion"), directed in 1971 by Luciano Ercoli starring Dagmar Lassander, Nieves Navarro, Simón Andreu, Pier Paolo Capponi, Osvaldo Genazzani and Salvador Huguet. Ennio Morricone composed a solid OST for a genre for which he had written many memorable scores. For this film he penned an orchestral score in which the crystal voice of Edda…
Space 1999
Beat Records is proud to present the world premiere CD release of Space:1999, featuring the original motion picture soundtrack of the Italian theatrical version composed by two-time Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone. Space: 1999 premiered in Italian theatres on January 14, 1975, and was created through the process of editing together three episodes from season one of the TV series: “Breakaway,” “Ring Around the Moon” and “Another Time, Another Place.”
The theatrical release of Space: 1999 predated th…
The Art Of Mirrors (Homage To Derek Jarman)
Longtime sold out at source, lucky restock. Limited 500 Copies, White/Black Splash Vinyl Packaged In Gatefold Cover. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson was a musical legend, one of the original members of Throbbing Gristle and an innovative musician in his own right. This live recording is an homage to the short film by Derek Jarman: The Art of Mirrors. Recorded before the end of Coil in 2004 and captured here on cd.
"This ‘Homage to Derek Jarman’ is really a triple homage in itself. Obviously a ceme…
Anthology Of Experimental Music From Latin America
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* "Not the walls that should collapse is that passive place and "of craftsmanship" that the market has given to the Latin American. Today, for a Latin American artist to be recognized in the global art markets, he must be able to say "from here I speak". Recovering myths, traditions, ancestral cultures and popular are some of the twists that artists seek to be legitimized. "And I wonder: why? Already when you start working with record labels, you realize that it is…
Lucia Rango canta Piero Ciampi
Coloured Deluxe LP + State-of-the-art CD bundle. The discovery of a previously unreleased recording of “Non chiedermi più” – the only duet ever recorded by Piero Ciampi – through the work of Journalist Lucilla Chiodi, has given way to the reissue of this expanded and fully remastered version of the album “Lucia Rango Show”. Recorded by the singer in 1967 with the full involvement and supervision of Ciampi himself in the recording studio, the album was arranged and conducted by Maestro Elvio Mont…
Cochin Moon
*2023 stock* One of the holy grails of avant-ambient synthesis. Originally released a few months after Haruomi Hosono’s 1978 Paraiso LP — famous for featuring the first trio grouping of the band that would become Yellow Magic Orchestra — Hosono’s Cochin Moon, an album credited to himself and famed graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo, who provides the album’s iconic cover art, actually features Harry in trio with synth wizards Hiroshi Sato and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Hosno and Tadanori Yokoo had traveled to…
Waiting for Your Return: A Shidaiqu Anthology 1927-1952, Pt. I
Shidaiqu literally means "songs of the era", a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural merging that would go on to shape a golden age of Chinese popular song & film in the pre-communism interwar period.
Waiting for Your Return brings together a wide…
Psycho 2000 / White Spiritual
Psycho 2000 - A dark but funky theme that begins with an occulting Italian echo-oscillator drone that is soon followed by pulsating bass and breakbeat drums, leads to tremolo guitars, an ostinato on electric mandolas, strings climbing eloquent ladders, otherworldly electronics, and a cinematic finale. An evocation of a parade of wooden nutcracker soldiers elaborately dressed in gold-trimmed black uniforms down a wide avenue decorated with mardi gras beads and animal skulls upon golden cobbleston…
Piitu Lintunen Presents: 7ai9
A compilation of old cassette demos from the beginning of 80’s plus few new tracks. All very exclusive and maximally random. Compiled by a 80-90-2000-influencer, punk zine maker and record collector Piitu Lintunen.
Fatevi Vivi La Polizia Non Interverrà
A commissar with his hands tied and a gentleman godfather. A gang of ruthless kidnappers and a couple of parents ready to pay any amount to hold their missing daughter again. The evocative backdrop of Lake Como and the rare beauty of Piero Piccioni's music. “Fatevi Vivi, La Polizia Non Interverrà” (1974), also known as “Kidnap”, is a detective story directed by Giovanni Fago, with actors of the caliber of Henry Silva, Gabriele Ferzetti and Philippe Leroy. The film draws inspiration from the man…
All Bad Boy & All Good Girl - Manchester Street Soul Soundtapes, 1988-1996
*200 copies limited edition* A mixtape pulling together extracts from soundsystem tapes out of Manchester's storied street soul scene of the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Featuring DIY cassette recordings of sounds such as Broadway, Stereo Dan & Soul Control playing live at dances and blues parties in south & central Manchester from 1988 through to 1996.
River of Revenge: Brazilian Country Music 1929-1961, Vol. 2
The second volume in Death Is Not The End's survey of a form of Brazilian country music known as música caipira ("hillbilly music") - a stripped-back forerunner to música sertaneja, the Brazilian equivalent to US country & western which in it's contemporary form has come to dominate the domestic music industry in recent decades. This collection covers some of the earliest recordings made by the pioneering folklorist Cornélio Pires at the end of the 1920s, through to records from the 30s, 40s & 5…
Jazz In Brazil
The fruitful relationship between Brazilian music and American jazz took shape between the mid-50s and the '60s. This turned out to be one of the most prolific meetings in the history of popular music. Two music cultures that are still resonating today as a timeless combination of elements. Now if you feel like getting through the unique flavor of such musical marriage this compilation is the right place to start. This is a great selection of Brazilian flavored jazz tunes performed by top Brazil…
Dance Sing And Listen Again!
*In process of stocking* Canadian composer Bruce Haack one of the true pioneers in the field of electronic and children's music. Originally released in 1962 "Dance, Sing & Listen" was Haack's debut album. Following instructions from children dance teacher Esther Nelson the album comes as a hyper-eclectic work based on a great variety of sound material. A hybrid soup of medieval, country, classical, and pop styles including tons of electronic effects, guitars, banjos and other acoustic string ins…
First Recording - 1969
*200 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist. Recorded by Dorothy Iannone in 1969. First published by Wiens Verlag in 1994 as a cassette in a limited edition of 100 copies.
Some Skin: A Modern Harmonic Bongo & Percussion Party
Bongo, the mere uttering of the word conjures up dreams and images of beatniks and poets, goatees and cha-cha heels. Bongo Rock! Bongo Fury! Bongo Madness! Beat on a pair of bongos and watch the party begin! Some Skin is designed to get that party started. We’ve put together a group of rare selections, the majority of which are previously unreleased, including cuts from Sun Ra, "Mr. Bongo" Jack Costanzo, exotica jungle master Tak Shindo, art-rock chanteuse Jill Kroesen, and more! Just throw the …
I'm Always Crying
Another brilliant bit of excavation from Death Is Not The End, a label rapidly becoming a crate-digging collective par excellence. Think Honest Jon’s with a particular focus on early-to-mid-20th-century folk musics of all strains. This particular release focuses on the career of Dolores Jiménez Alcántara, stage-name Nina de la Puebla, who was a prime exponent of the Flamenco and Andalusian Copla songbooks. As the fourteen songs here demonstrate, powerful alto was dexterous enough to encompass th…
Eleki Bushi 1966-1974
The aftermath of World War II gave rise to a global phenomenon that saw new generations of young people rise up determined to forge new paths from their elders – culturally, politically, and musically. Japan was no exception and the recent past made the local youth angrier, hungrier and even more determined to fully experience something different from their parents. The country caught on to the early rock & roll craze almost in tandem as it was happening in the States. Teenager Chiemi Eri singin…
Special Sound Series – Vol. 2: The Word
First ever reissue of this highly sought-after 12” in its original format New remaster by the engineers of the original label, Nippon Columbia. Includes “The Word II” popularized by Mac DeMarco’s acclaimed cover (Chamber of Reflection on Salad Days album). Featured on Chee Shimizu’s “Obscure sound” book and many articles on international press and radio shows such as NTS, BBC Radio 1, etc.
Barely known to the international public, the Electone pioneer and virtuoso Shigeo Sekito is the man behind…
Jean-Jacques Perrey Et Son Ondioline
*2023 stock* Jean-Jacques Perrey has long been recognized as a pioneer of electronic music. Along with his musical partner at the time, Gershon Kingsley, the duo recorded a landmark album: The In Sound From Way Out, which was released by Vanguard Records in 1966. Perrey went on to record over 24 more albums of electronic music during his lifetime. But prior to this seminal electronic album Perrey already had an impressive career as an electronic music pioneer, having been the demo man for George…