Pino Donaggio
Pino Donaggio is an Italian singer, songwriter and film composer, born Giuseppe Donaggio on Burano, in the Venetian lagoon, in 1941. A classically trained violinist, he turned to pop singing in 1959 and wrote the 1965 hit Io che non vivo, later recorded in English by Dusty Springfield as You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. From the 1970s he became a prolific composer for cinema, known for thriller and horror scores. Donaggio studied violin at the conservatories of Venice and Milan and first sang at the Sanremo Festival in 1961. His first film score was Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973).
Sotto Il Vestito Niente
For the first time on CD and vinyl, the soundtrack of the cult Italian Giallo film Nothing Underneath composed by Pino Donaggio. This soundtrack perfectly represents Pino Donaggio's style, capable of transitioning from terrifying and sharp symphonies to sweet and sensual electronic pieces. The atmospheres are reminiscent of films such as 'Body Double' and 'Dressed to Kill.' A limited edition not to be missed, for all lovers of Italian thrilling giallo and for all fans of Brian De Palma's films.
Don't Look Now
*2024 stock* "‘Don’t Look Now’ a film that is now considered a key work in the horror genre of cinema and has caused some critics to reappraise it some thirty years after it’s original release. A guarded Pauline Kael writing in 1973 for The New Yorker wrote “the fanciest, most carefully assembled enigma yet put on screen.” Jay Cocks for Time wrote more enthusiastically “Don’t Look Now is a rich, complex and subtle experience that demands more than one viewing.” The film’s director Nicholas Roeg …
La Setta
Suspended sounds and vocalizations in Latin introduce the scrupulous 'electronic' commentary of Pino Donaggio. While the mysterious atmosphere of the opener La Setta soon evolves into a syncopated rhythm, the following Ansimando offers the listener disturbing notes of keyboards and elliptical effects of synthesizers that constitute, in addition, the central body of the mysterious Il Cuore Strappato. The dreamlike plots of Sogno are, instead, based on the continuous dialogue between acoustic guit…
Trauma
*2022 stock* Trauma is the 1993 film by Dario Argento and one of two films he directed in the USA (The other being Two Evil Eyes) it stars Asia Argento and is a typically flamboyant Giallo from Argento featuring his trademark dizzying camerawork and gruesome over the top deaths. The score by Maestro Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now & Body Double) who delivered a beautiful, nuanced & lush orchestral score which is absolutely outstanding.
Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia
Born Giuseppe Donaggio in Venice, Italy, on October 24, 1941, he was the product of a family of musicians, and began studying violin at the ageof ten; during the second half of the '50s and all of the following decade, he wrote songs both for other performers and for his solo records, even participating to various editions of the Sanremo Festival. He started writing scores for films in 1973 with "Don't Look Now" ("A Venezia... un dicembre rosso shocking", already released as VMLP210 for the Reco…
A Venezia Un Dicembre Rosso Shocking
Pino Donaggio is one of the great Italian composers often forgotten or obscured by more high-sounding names. Yet, along with names such as Umiliani, Piccioni, Rota, Rustichelli, he deserves a place of honor alongside the Master that the whole world envies us: Ennio Morricone.
A singer-songwriter of a notable fame in the ‘60s, he becames a soundtracks composer by pure chance when, at the beginning of the ’70s, while walking in front of the Venice station one morning he was noticed by a pr…