Moon Gas
Adventurous keyboardist and arranger Dick Hyman worked in radio, film and television before making a name for himself as a jazz pianist in the mid-1950s with a hugely popular harpsichord rendition of “Mack The Knife.” An early experimenter with electronic instruments, including the Moog, his 1963 rarity Moon Gas, produced by Creed Taylor and recorded with Sinatra sidekick and Broadway musical mainstay Mary Mayo, was conceived as “a glimpse of the possible sounds of the 22nd Century.” Blasting lo…
Elettroencefalogramma
**300 copies** In the widening realms of uncovered European Outsider Art and maligned musical enigmas, the composer most commonly known as A.R. Luciani continues to exist on the extreme outer limits. Despite his unwaning commitment to the Italian avant garde and extensive production for the film industry, his work remains undocumented in almost all the excitable documentaries, books and retrospectives on the subject made in recent years. Trust Andy Votel, Sean Canty and Doug Shipton to put that …
Milano Calibro 9
**2020 repress, green vinyl** During a 1972 full of progressive rock masterpieces, the Neapolitan group Osanna released a follow-up to their debut LP "L'uomo"; a very peculiar record, the result of a collaboration between the band and the Maestro and composer Luis Bacalov (who already worked with New Trolls on their "Concerto Grosso" the previous year), a work commissioned for Fernando Di Leo's movie "Milano Calibro 9".The 'real' title of the album is actually "Preludio, tema, variazioni, canzon…
Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor
**Brazilian Collector's Item**Ultra rare Hareton Salvanini soundtrack reissued for the first time worldwide. Brazilian album of the obscure Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor, a mixture of Psych, Jazz and Bossa Nova. For this movie Salvanini has created a soundtrack full of groovy guitars, refined strings and delicate orchestral sounds.Polish film maker Zygmunt Sulistrowski pioneered the format of shooting low-budget soft porn on exotic locations. Brazilian arranger and writer Hareton Salvanini was comiss…
Summertime Killer
The Summertime Killer, a crime movie and a love story, was directed in 1972 by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starred Christopher Mitchum, Karl Malden, Olivia Hussey and Claudine Auger among others. Academy award winning composer Luis Bacalov wrote the score which perfectly reflects the core of the plot, with a strange mix of love and death. The composer alternates dramatically suspenseful score with ‘source music’ in the form of ballad, rock music and dance floor tunes, usually heard through a car…
Sounds From the Far Space
**300 copies** Recorded by Giuliano Sorgini at the beginning of the Seventies, Sounds From the Far Space is an unreleased set of tracks inspired by the immensity of a sky full of stars, intended to be used for some television documentaries, while the competition between United States and Soviet Union was high and the stars were getting closer and closer.Sounds From the Far Space is an album about travelling without moving in space, with the dark and dreamy moods of the composer. Musica Per Immag…
Espressioni
**100 copies, clear vinyl with printed slipcase and handwritten notes + Obi with liner notes and info, also available on standard black vinyl** Originally released in 1972 for the sought after Gemelli imprint, Espressioni was credited to longtime Ennio Morricone partner and conspirator Bruno Nicolai, one of the most influential Italian composer in the heyday of film music and modern composition. The maestro Morricone shows his persona between the folds of the record as well, revealing a common s…
Diapositive
**100 copies, clear vinyl with printed slipcase and handwritten notes + Obi with liner notes and info, also alvailable on standard black vinyl** Beside the telluric year in pop music and culture, 1977 was still ranked as the future for Italian leftfield composers. Published by roman imprint Gemelli and credited to the elusive Massimo Guantini (none else than influential jazz player and composer Sandro Brugnolini), Diapositive is a fully cinematic journey in the realm of sci-fi and cool jazz. Ful…
Eroina
Last copies **150 copies, clear vinyl** There are still so many treasures to be discovered out there, but once you find a gem like this you can definitely put the research on hold for a little while and give it a deep listen. Recorded by the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza at Fono Roma in 1971, Eroina is a series of haunting improvisations - each one inspired by the effects of a different drug - made of whirling electronic glitches, skronky horns, pounded piano, funky drums and weird …
Daydream
**150 copies** One of the coolest albums ever from the legendary Cometa sound library – a set that’s every bit as weird and wonderful as you’d guess from its cover image of a hand holding a flower with eyeballs on each petal! The music’s maybe not as trippy as that picture, but it does have lots of cool and groovy touches – sweet Fender Rhodes at some points, jazzy reeds at others, and even some more evocative passages that almost have a deeper soundtrack vibe – but which soon return to the kind…
Echoing America
**150 copies, clear vinyl** A record that definitely lives up to its title – an obscure Italian sound library session that blends instrumental touches that evoke an America at the start of the 70s with some of the hipper, deeper currents you’d expect from the team of Stefano Torossi and Giovanni Tommaso. There’s plenty of expected sound library funk in the mix here in a way that makes for one of the most unique sound library sessions we’ve ever heard.
Shadows From Nowhere
Finally back again! This Reissue is dedicated to the 1983 so rare mix of the Balearic / Italo-Disco pure bliss Shadows From Nowhere by Blue Gas / Celso Valli, recorded at the famous Stone Castle Studios (Carimate, Italy). Includes the original 12" 1983 versions (Shadows From Nowhere and Marie) for collectors and aficionados, and an extended edit by Danilo Braca for the Balearic Heads.
Thrilling Mortale
Welcome to the third instalment in Vampisoul's series dedicated to the original Italian library music from the vaults of Nelson Records. In this album, the label digs deeper into the most experimental recordings in the archives of Nelson Records. The label was founded in 1970 by the musicians Maurizio Majorana, Antonello Vannucchi, and Roberto Podio (who along with Carlo Pes would be known as I Marc 4), after establishing the Telecinesound studio, right where the New Italian Library Sound was cr…
Ghost Tropic
Ghost Tropic is first and foremost the name of the third feature from acclaimed Belgian writer-director Bas Devos. The film tells the story of Khadija, a middle-aged cleaner who has no other option but to walk home through Brussels on a cold night after falling asleep on the last train. The journey is a reflection on motherhood and expectations, pride and unknown struggles, stories of the ghostly magic of a lonely night in a big city, of the kindness of strangers and the hurt felt seeing the vul…
Ricordi D'Infanzia
New reduced price! **500 copies, blue vinyl** Ricordi d'Infanzia, originally released on the legendary Italian label Flirt in 1975 is an excellent library music LP by the great Daniela Casa. Eleven tracks of soft, romantic, exotic pop with a sweet and childish atmosphere designed for use in radio, film, TV, documentaries and educational projects. Daniela Casa is a true legend of early experimental electronic music and has been recently rediscovered as a great inspiration by many contemporary art…
Peace On You
Sheathed in obscurity following its 1972 release in Italy, Peace on You–the sole long-player from Ghana’s Mack Porter–is a true outlier gem of blues, soul, and psychedelic rock. With its dramatic David Axelrod-esque arrangements and Porter’s blurry, mirage-like lines between Hendrix soul and doomy Sabbath riffs, the record exists on a plane of rarity entirely its own.... "An African artist, born in Ghana (1945) during the English colonial occupation, Mack Porter moved to the Netherlands and the…
Les Músiques per a Albert Serra
**347 copies** Urpa i musell feels very fortunate to announce its third release after a long period of fertile collaboration with the film production company Andergraun Films: the 4-LP Box Set Les Músiques per a Albert Serra by the inscrutable band Molforts.The box set puts together the main musical works that the band created between 2006 and 2018 for the Catalan film director Albert Serra. It includes the soundtracks for three films — Honor de cavalleria / Honour of the Knights (2006), Històri…
Percussioni ed Effetti + Agonia Della Civiltà
**Special discounted bundle** You may have noticed, over the last few years, a slow trickle of remarkable, genre defiant works emerging from the small, Milan based imprint, Intervallo. Largely falling under the banner of Library Music, the label’s effort have illuminated this fascinating context as an artistic Trojan horse - compositions of profound worth, often explicitly experimental and avant-garde, created within the shadows of the commercial world. After brief period of silence, the label r…
Lucifer Rising Ost
**Limited Edition Red Vinyl, Gatefold Cover + Insert ** Remastered edition of the legendary/notorious Lucifer Rising soundtrack that was originally composed for Kenneth Anger’s film of the same name. Comes with printed inner sleeve and spot gloss jacket.“When I composed and recorded the soundtrack for a reconceptualized Lucifer Rising a decade after the first abandoned attempt I drew on my own life experiences to tell the story in music evocative of the mythical Lucifer awakening in his pit of d…
You Need This - A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 3
Founder of London record shop IF Music and vinyl hunter extraordinaire, Jean-Claude drops the third glorious volume of his compilation series A Journey Into Deep Jazz on BBE Music. True to the album’s You Need This tagline, Jean-Claude has once again dug deep in his personal collection, emerging with an eclectic yet coherent selection of jazz sounds. Skimming the list of featured artists, such as James Brown’s former trombonist and musical director Tyrone Jefferson, Hungary’s all-time great jazz…