Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange?
Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (in English; What Have You Done to Solange?) is a 1972 Giallo film directed by Massimo Dallamano. The plot follows a series of violent murders occurring at a Catholic girls’ school in England where a young student has gone missing. It is considered a classic within the Giallo genre - an Italian term designating thrillers, mystery and horror films from Italy. Ennio Morricone’s haunting soundtrack is one of his premiere Giallo scores. It is now available as a limited ed…
Spasmo
Beat Records reissue the soundtrack for Spasmo on CD, the thriller film directed in 1974 by Umberto Lenzi and starring Suzy Kendall, Robert Hoffman, Ivan Rassimov, Guido Alberti, Adolfo Lastretti, and Franco Silva. For a story between thriller and mystery, Ennio Morricone has composed a soundtrack based on two recurring tonal themes, a pop ballad for choir and orchestra and a requiem that alternate with hallucinatory atmospheres between the experimental and psychedelic. For this reissue Beat Rec…
Il Grande Silenzio - Un Bellissimo Novembre
A deluxe release of the popular scores composed by maestro Ennio Morricone for Il Grande Silenzio and Un Bellissimo Novembre. Mastering by Enrico De Gemini and graphic layout by Alessio Iannuzzi, including brief notes on the two films. A classic in Beat Records' catalog is available once again. Presented in a jewel case with 12-page booklet full of artwork from the film; the reversible booklet features the original painting by the artist Sandro Symeoni -- one of the most illustrious painters for…
Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna
Beat Records presents the definitive edition of Ennio Morricone's wonderful score for Lucio Fulci's Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna (1971). One of the most valuable soundtracks composed during a period of great artistic fertility, it was created by the popular Italian composer for this morbid thriller by one of the greatest Italian directors ever, appreciated and recognized throughout the world. Long out-of-print, this double-CD edition offers around 90 minutes of music from the maestro's mo…
Word Jazz
Ken Nordine’s debut LP from 1957, Word Jazz, belongs to two histories. While interconnected, one is momentary - capturing the close and incredibly important alignment between jazz and poetry that emerged during the 1950s and 60s - while the other is transient and progressive, belonging to a continuum that still exists today. It stands alongside similar albums like those capturing Jack Kerouac’s work with Steve Allen, Kenneth Rexroth and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s collaborations with The Cellar Jazz…
Maracatú
Elisabeth Waldo’s Maracatú, originally released in 1959, is a rare and early gesture of hybridic musical multiculturalism that has remained sinfully overlooked through the decades. Occupying a similar territory to now widely celebrated, roughly concurrent albums like Eden Ahbez's Eden's Island and Chaino’s Jungle Echoes, Pleasure For Music’s reissue turns history on its head, offering a rare opportunity for a visionary and forward-thinking body of work to receive its rightful due.Elisabeth Wald…
Fancy
Released in 1970, Fancy is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. A dense and inspired selection of songs, mostly covers, as vivid portraits of different female characters in American culture. The album includes highly personal renditions of songs such as Burt Bacharach's I'll Never Fall In Love Again, Leon Russell's Delta Man, James Taylor's Something in the Way He Moves and Laura Nyro's Wedding Bell Blues. A major statement from a great artist and a true American c…
The Moviegoer
Produced in summer 1972 and released in autumn of the same year by Phillips Records, this is one of the most obscure and controversial albums in Scott Walker's discography. The album was poorly received by critics and if we exclude a 1975 reissue on Contour Label, it has since been deleted till this very welcomed re-release. The Moviegoer is a declared journey through Pop arrangements of iconic film music themes. The album includes mainstream oriented version of classic themes like Nino Rota's l…
Tin Star Liverpool
* Edition of 300 neon yellow vinyl * Adrian Corker’s bold, heavily textured score for Tin Star: Liverpool gets a limited release on 300 neon yellow vinyl. Working with a 12-piece string section as well as brass and percussion, Corker draws out a rich palette of volatile sonics Analogue tape processing help re-shape things further, slowing and stretching the sound giving rise to unusual shapes and colours. And woven amongst all this are field recordings by Corker and Chris Watson, recorded aroun…
Africa Oscura
**CD digipack edition** Recorded by composer and multi-instrumentalist Giuliano Sorgini between 1974 and 1976 in his studio in Prati district in Rome, a stone’s throw from Italian television offices, Africa Oscura is a set of tracks inspired by the wildest and most obscure secrets of those lands, intended to be the background of some tv documentaries.Some tracks were recorded during the same session of Zoo Folle, the album widely recognised as his masterpiece, celebrated today by the most influe…
L'Uomo Elettronico
An absolutely stunning accomplishment, Piero Umiliani's L'Uomo Elettronico delves into the composer's electronic works created between 1972 and 1983. Featuring 3 previously unreleased tracks, as well as rarities and hidden gems - all remastered from the original analogue tapes - it's an absolute must for seasoned Library music fans, devotes of late 20th century electronic music, or anyone just beginning to explore the incredible world to which it belongs.
A Buen Puerto
**2021 Stock** A record that sounds like a summertime sunset, if ever there was one. Lilting melodies, infused with an undercurrent of bossa nova and the drowsy, faded memory of sun-drenched islands. All of this melodic loveliness is made ever-so-groovy in an Afro-Cuban sort of way thanks to a mighty contribution from world famous percussionist Jorge Trasante, Totem drummer Roberto Galletti, and Limonada drummer José Luis Sosa. Pippo Spera came into the orbit of Uruguayan iconoclast Eduardo Mate…
Ayahuasca: Psychedelic Cumbias Vol. 1
**2021 Stock. Edition of 50 Yellow Clear Vinyl** This 14 track compilation of pure obscure tropical cumbias, latin soul, with some influences of psychedelic music. An hybrid between jungle music and psychedelic rock, cumbias w/ electric guitar, tropical music with fuzz! This is what you're looking for! Bands like Ranil y su conjunto, El Opio, Los Telstar's, Grupo Santa Fé, Los Darlings de Huánuco among others. Great original tunes, but also cool covers like "Bongocero" by Los Telstar's (playing …
Folklore Afro Uruguayo
* 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 * A masterpiece of South American percussion, recorded in 1977 by worldwide legend and Gipsy Kings percussionist Jorge Trasante—and impossible to find for decades—finally reissued! “In the mid-’70s I was struck by a young Uruguayan percussionist named Jorge Trasante. I met him accompanying Rada and Pippo Spera, in recordings in the Sondor Studio. He turned out to be an experienced percussionist and remarkable musical researcher, despite his young age, only 23 years o…
Groove Club Vol. 4: Sinn Sisamouth Vol. 1
* Comes with an 8-page full color booklet with info and photos supplied by Sinn Sisamouth's surviving family. * There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained herein. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was the experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh—an…
Top Soul
* 2021 Stock * Impossible to find jazz/soul/funk monster by Fusión, issued in Chile in 1975 by ALBA (ALD-041)—a fulsome combination of funk, electric jazz, and soul, with Latin roots. Bassist Enrique Luna had lived and studied art in New York, and knew first-hand the last, avant-garde years of John Coltrane, and Miles Davis’ mutation from hard bop trendsetter into an electric jazz pioneer; Matias Pizarro had appeared on the scene in the mid-60s as a young pianist of outstanding technical ability…
Jungle Obsession
Offficial reissue of this classic library album comes as a 50th anniversary edition on 180 grams vinyl with two bonus tracks. Farfalla Records presents a reissue of Jungle Obsession by Nino Nardini & Roger Roger. On this LP, they present their own musical vision of The Jungle Book.
Released in 1971, under the blanket of library music anonymity, Jungle Obsession is one of those rare and precious records whose extraordinary personality is instantly recognised by the ear of the listener. Timelesslu…
Groove Club Vol. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified!
* 2021 Stock * There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained in this collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found.
And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh—and which many years later have seduced countless listeners around the world with the…
Groove Club Vol. 2: Cambodia Rock Spectacular!
* 2021 Stock * There were no deluxe studios for the musicians who recorded the devastating tracks contained in this collection. Nothing so grand. Most of these tracks were recorded live, with traditional instruments finding a place alongside any keyboards or guitars that could be found. And yet, it was these experiments of Khmer rock musicians which transformed the nightlife of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh—and which many years later have seduced countless listeners around the world with the…
Groove Club Vol. 1: La Confiserie Magique
* 2021 Stock * Fabrice, 17 years old, is a minet, or to say it better, a mod from one of the posh neighbourhoods, the 16th district in Paris and such “golden ghettoes” as Auteuil, Neuilly and Passy. Fab’ likes to have his “ronron at the Dugstore”, as Dutronc sang it (an untranslatable wordplay on ronron, “cat food”, and a minet – “a kitten” – purring). Fabrice attends Henri IV prestigious high-school; his father, a businessman who made a fortune selling plastic flowers, and his mother, a former …