Femina Ridens
** 2021 Repress ** If a jewel were to be chosen amongst the more than three hundred soundtracks that Maestro Stelvio Cipriani has composed during his long and prodigious career, that choice would probably not fall on the super classic and hyper known Anonimo Veneziano (the box-office and hit-parade champion who triggered the international fame of the Roman musician), but probably on his previous and less celebrated Femina Ridens – perhaps the most iconic of his soundtracks, along with Mark Il po…
Alla Ricerca del Piacere
50 years ago, Franco and Luciana De Gemini had recently moved to Rome, both looking for their place in the world. Through his collaborations with many great maestros of the period and his involvement with the orchestras, Franco got to know many people including Fulvio Corradini and Benito Costa (the former an administrator of prestigious record catalogs, the second a trusted friend). In fact, they had already caught wind of a small record label called Beat Records Company, founded on May 12, 196…
5 Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto
** Crystal Clear LP ** 5 Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto" (5 Dolls for the August Moon), directed by the Italian master of thriller Mario Bava, is today considered a great cult film of Italian cinema. Underestimated by many, due to unconvincing screenplay and dialogues, the work has to be rediscovered thanks to its chromatic and photographic techniques, on which at the time - and in many ways still today - Bava was second to none: the same horror Maestro Dario Argento paid homage to him several tim…
Profondo Rosso
** Crystal Clear LP **Incredible reissue of Profondo Rosso, one of the absolute cult movie soundtracks of all times, in its 35th anniversary! This reissue is a faithful reproduction of the very first pressing of 1975 (being made in the same pressing plant of those years). A unique product for this truly legendary masterpiece! Recorded in 1975, the score finds the band at the height of their creativity and features the incredible lineup of Simonetti, Morante, Pignatelli & Martino. Bass & drums ar…
L'alba dei Morti Viventi / La Caccia
** Grey & Pink mixed - Brain coloured vinyl + Poster ** The series of exclusive 45rpm’s published by AMS Records in collaboration with legendary Cinevox Record continues with this 7-inch that includes two tracks from the soundtrack of George Romero’s movie “Zombi / Dawn of the Dead”. Of the two tracks, “L’Alba dei Morti Viventi”, the key theme of the film and one of Goblin’s greatest masterpieces, is presented here in an exclusive alternative version. This special edition is made exclusively for…
Greatest Hits Vol. 2 1979-2001
** 180gr. Green Fluo coloured vinyl edition.** The first Goblin’s Greatest Hits volume, released in mid-2020 and filled with the unprecedented masterpieces that made them famous worldwide as the masters of movie soundtrack makers, is now followed by this second chapter that wisely covers the second part of the band’s career. This is an era that is often less considered by music lovers and horror movies fans, but this LP is here also to remind the listener that there’s a lot to be rediscovered. T…
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly/Il Buono, Il Brutto E Il Cattivo
* Crystal Clear vinyl, 2021 repress * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is neither more nor less than the perfect soundtrack to the most wonderful of western movies, the third and final act of the "Dollar Trilogy" directed by Sergio Leone. A film not only rated among the best of the genre, but universally considered among the most successful in the history of cinema. Ennio Morricone, a higher caliber composer to whom each musician usually relates with the simple title of 'Master', has here been abl…
Psychedelic Percussion
Psychedelic Percussion definitely sticks to his title. With the help from Paul Beaver of Beaver & Krause (famous keyboard wizard and sound engineer for the likes of Stevie Wonder), vibe master Emil Richards (check is two fantastic album on Impulse! with The Microtonal Blues Band featuring Joe Porcaro, father of the famed Toto brothers) and Gary Coleman (percussionist in the famous Wrecking Crew), Blaine goes wild in the studio with drums, gong, xylophone, organ, bongos, congas and timpani. Unusu…
Psychedelic Pernambuco
** 2021 Stock ** Far to the north-east of Brazil’s twin musical capitals of Rio and São Paulo, lies the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. During the country’s lengthy and oppressive military dictatorship (1964-1985), a cadre of like-minded and socially conscientious musicians were quietly building their own music scene, away from the glare of the censors.... for a time, at least.
Strongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by vis…
Assim na Terra Como no Ceu
** 2021 Stock ** Extremely rare album compiling Waltel Branco's finest incidental TV soundtrack works - Spaghetti Western to deep funk to psyched-orchestral. Originally released on Fermata (Brazil) in 1970, this brilliant - incredibly lengthy titled album - album contains incidental songs from three soap opera’s; ‘Assim na Terra Como No Céu’, ‘Passo dos Ventos’ and the most well known ‘Irmãos Coragem’. The album contains elements not dissimilar to Incredible Bongo Band, Nico Gomez, classic Blaxp…
The Marseille Contract
Another thriller film score by Roy Budd, The Marseilles Contract (The Destructors) is reissued on LP for the first time. The Marseilles Contract is a 1974 crime thriller directed by Robert Parrish, one of the directors of Casino Royale (1967), starring Michael Caine, James Mason, and Anthony Quinn. The score is a prime example of Roy Budd’s signature action thriller jazz/crime sound but has been somewhat overlooked by Budd fans and soundtrack fans alike. The original album was only released in F…
Delitto sull'Autostrada
Musica Per Immagini is pleased to announce the first release on vinyl of Franco Micalizzi's soundtrack to the film “Delitto Sull'Autostrada”, directed by Bruno Corbucci and starring the Italian-Cuban-American actor Tomas Milian. Eclectic, innovator, full of life and energy, out of the ordinary, the composer is best known for his scores in poliziotteschi films such as “Roma A Mano Armata”, “Napoli Violenta” or “Italia A Mano Armata”, whose theme was used also in Quentin Tarantino's “Death Proof”.…
Soothing Sounds for Baby, vols. 1-3
The legendary proto-minimalistic Soothing Sounds For Baby series by Raymond Scott were pressed in limited quantities and have been out of print for almost over a decade. Designed for babies one to six months old, the first volume of Raymond Scott's dreamy, engaging Soothing Sounds for Baby series emphasizes soft synth tones, repetitive melodies, and relatively simple arrangements. Keeping in mind a young baby's attention span, Vol. 1 also contains shorter, more numerous pieces than the following…
Electric Circus
Remastered edition of an intriguing international project from the mid-70s. A meeting of jazz and rock that goes far beyond what is usually considered fusion. Originally released in 1976, the album "Electric Circus" was the second solo project of German guitarist Toto Blanke, but at the same time the beginning of an unusual trio formed by the Dutch pianist Jasper van't Hof and Finnish drummer Edward Vesala (known in Poland thanks to his collaboration with Tomasz Stańko). Three very strong indivi…
Ars Electronica 89/90
Komendarek in recordings from the late 80s and early 90s, prepared for the interdisciplinary Ars Electronica festival. Avant-garde madness against the background of ingenious sequences. Previously unpublished material appears on CD for the first time. By the end of the 80s, Władysław Komendarek had already established himself in Poland as a leading creator of electronic music. However, he did not rest on his laurels, and when he found an opportunity to take part in a futuristic review Ars Electr…
W Słońcu i W Deszczu
A diverse and compelling soundtrack from the popular TV series by Sylwester Szyszko, from 1979. Piotr Hertel, the composer known for his work for the “Akcja pod Arsenałem” feature movie and “Miś Uszatek” animated TV series, surprises here with keyboards, percussion instruments themes and appealing orchestral arrangements. For the first time on the CD! The series which told the story of Bolek Małolepszy, as a slice of his life struggles at the Polish countryside of the late 1970s, was warmly rece…
Daughters of Darkness
* 2021 Stock * The French film composer François De Roubaix recorded compositions for a lot of movies. One of them is the Belgian cult horror classic Daughters of Darkness. The soundtrack to the erotic vampire - a stylish, cold, and sinister meditation on sex, compliancy, and vampirism- film consists of a lot of different musical elements and is an seductive score. It’s one of François’ finest pieces of music. The colourful compositions supports the love story and the different ways the vampires…
Straziami ma di Baci Saziami
CFSoundtracks and Beat Records are pleased to release on CD the complete edition of the Armando Trovajoli soundtrack for “Straziami, ma di baciami saziami” (aka “Torture Me, but Kill Me with Kisses” – “Fais-moi très mal mais couvre-moi de baisers”) a co-produced Italian–French comedy directed in 1968 by Dino Risi, with a screenplay by Age, Scarpelli and Dino Risi, photography by Sandro D’Eva, editing by Antonietta Zita and music score by Armando Trovajoli. The film was produced by Edmondo Amati …
Io So che Tu Sai che Io So
Beat Records is pleased to present on a double CD set the complete score by Piero Piccioni for the movie Io So che Tu Sai che Io So (aka “I Know that You Know that I Know”), a comedy directed by Alberto Sordi in 1982, with a screenplay by Rodolfo Sonego, Alberto Sordi and Augusto Caminito, photography by Sergio D'Offizi, editing by Tatiana Casini Morigi and music score by Piero Piccioni, starring Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Isabella De Bernardi, Salvatore Jacono, Giuseppe Mannajuolo, Micaela P…
Il Giro del Mondo degli Innamorati di Peynet
Beat Records is happy to present on CD the original score by Alessandro Alessandroni with love theme by Ennio Morricone for Il Giro del Mondo degli Innamorati di Peynet (aka Le Tour du Monde des Amoreux de Peynet) a 1974 animated movie directed by Cesare Perfetto, with a screenplay by Cesare Perfetto, Raymond Peynet and Vezio Melegari. For this masterpiece of Italian animation (which enjoyed incredible success in Japan), Alessandro Alessandroni composed a simply delicious musical score describin…