Reissues
Free Music (Part 1)
Blisteringly groovy collection of completely off-the-radar songs by Libyan composer / producer Najib Alhoush's group The Free Music, circa 1976. Releasing an astonishing 10 albums, all impressively strong and equally infused by soul, funk, disco and reggae, The Free Music created a distinctly infectious groove that unfortunately didn't make an impact outside of Libya due to the complex political situation at the time.
Nyanser
Originally released in 1979 on Mistlur Records in Sweden, Nyanser is widely considered Thomas Almvqvist’s masterpiece.
What's Going On
The impossibly cool 1973 album What's Going On from Late, Great Japanese Funk & Jazz Don Takehiro Honda which swings through jazz orchestral renditions of American R&B and Funk Classics like Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On, "Otis Redding's "Sitting On The Dock of the Bay," and James Brown's "Ain't It Funky Now" turning them into the most Down Home, Grits 'N' Gravy Grooviest Versions and sounding like they were recorded at the studio of the band that taught the Memphis Rhythm Sections all they eve…
Fragments
Rachika Nayar’s fragments is a collection of sonic miniatures constructed from guitar loops and in the familiar comforts of her own bedroom. First released as a limited edition cassette by RVNG Intl’s Commend THERE imprint in 2021, fragments (expanded) adds an entire new side of previously unreleased music to the collection, which has been newly mastered by Rafael Anton Irrisari.
While growing up and developing a relationship with the instrument and her capabilities, using delay pedals to improv…
First Light
Jazz In Britain was very fortunate recently to receive a large collection of reel tapes and discover three early seventies Barbara Thompson sessions amongst it, sessions that we don’t believe have been circulated before. The label proposed to Barbara’s daughter Ana Gracey to produce an album using these three sessions as a way of raising extra money for Cure Parkinson’s.The audio fidelity of these sessions reflects the fact that they were recorded on a very low speed tape machine but they presen…
Jade Warrior
After backing future Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman and playing in psychedelic outfit July, percussionist/flutist Jon Field and guitarist Tony Duhig joined forces with bassist Glyn Havard to form experimental prog act Jade Warrior, their non-standard 1971 self-titled debut a work of excellence unjustly overlooked. Veering between acou-stic introspection, searing acid rock and world music interludes, with melody and percussion from Africa and India and nary a drumkit in sight, this pure musica…
Grammofon-Missionen - Swedish Jesus Music Aesthetics 1960 - 1990
With a preface by Johan Kugelberg and additional interviews by Emil Karlsson. This lavish coffee table book takes an in-depth visual look back at the amazing art and graphics of the so-called Swedish Gramophone Mission. The book presents the largest collection of Swedish Christian records from the 1960s -1980s ever amassed featuring 777 record covers, many of them extraordinary and surreal private/custom pressings.
Jam packed with lots of interviews, liner-notes and previously unpublished phot…
Electronic Designs
Entirely remastered from the original analogue tapes and featuring brand new artwork designed by Luke Insect, this Four Flies reissue finally brings back to life one of the most surprising albums from the strange phenomenon that was the Italian library music of the Seventies.
Des Morts (LP)
Super Tip! An expanded reissue of mega rare 1979 unknown vanity pressing LP that blends ethnological field recordings, musique concrète principles and introspective synthesiser music from this cult European studio maverick and historic collaborator of COS, Philippe Druilet, Marc Moulin and John Surman. Alain Pierre’s Mondo movie soundtrack to the controversial Des Morts shares very few stylistic rivals, but fans of Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain soundtrack and some of the more eldritch early sa…
Marta … Dopo di Che, Uccide il Maschio e lo Divora
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to the 1971 Spanish/Italian co-production ...Dopo Di Che, Uccide Il Maschio E Lo Divora. This title translates from Italian into English as the rather gruesome "After that, It Kills the Male and Devours It;" the movie was known in the US as simply Marta. The film is a dramatic thriller about a wealthy landowner haunted by the specter of his dead mother. When he has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to hi…
Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents Daniele Patucchi's masterful score to Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine. In the 1970s, the genre of Italian melodramas found new and innovative ways to discuss heavy topics against the backdrop of romantic stories. Until abortion was made legal in 1978, Italian filmmakers shot dramas centering around the issue with varying degrees of good taste. Le Ultime Ore Di Una Vergine (THE LAST HOURS OF A VIRGIN; also known as UN DOPPIO A METÀ and DOUBLE BY HALF in the …
El Ultimo Viaje
Edition of 300 The "Comisario Mendoza" trilogy from Spanish filmmaker José Antonio de la Loma is a very strange genre series with an informal bond established through the titular character who was played by a different actor in each of the movies. From the first film, La redada (aka Barcelona Kill, 1973, with John Justin as Mendoza) to the last, Metralleta Stein (1975, Francisco "Paco" Rabal as Mendoza, with El último viaje (1974, Eduardo Fajardo as Mendoza) in between, each film is relatively d…
Peccato Senza Malizia
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Peccato Senza Malizia (aka Sins Without Intentions, 1975), an elusive romantic drama by a similarly enigmatic albeit one-time filmmaker, Theo Campanelli. The film tells the story of Stefania, an 18-year old girl leaving her orphanage in Ascoli Piceno who moves in with her stepfather, a humble and simplistic fisherman. Seeing the girl as a wife and a lover rather than a daughter, the unnamed stepfather ignites an abusive relationship …
La Donna Della Calda Terra
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to José María Forqué's La Donna Della Calda Terra (aka LA MUJER DE LA TIERRA CALIENTE, or FURY, as it's sometimes known in the English market). This 1978 film was a product of the resurgence of erotic cinema that took place during the 1970s, spearheaded by Sylvia Kristel's Emmanuelle (1974). Among that film's many imitators is La Donna Della Calda Terra, starring Laura Gemser. Best known for BLACK EMANUELLE, Gemser gets p…
Ingrid Sulla Strada
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Ingrid Sulla Strada (Ingrid on the Road), a 1973 Italian psychological drama. The film was written and directed by Brunello Rondi, known primarily as a script-writer and script consultant who had often collaborated with Federico Fellini. Rondi's directorial debut came in 1961 with the film Violent Life, and he went on to make a number of psychological/sexual dramas of which Ingrid Sulla Strada was one of the last.
The …
Apocalypse Domani
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Antonio Margheriti's horror film Apocalypse Domani, better known in English terrotories as Zombie Apocalypse and sometimes by its alternate US title, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters). The movie was released in 1980, one of no less than ten flesh-eating horror classics emerging in that year alone. Cannibal Apocalypse is rather unique in comparison, occupying several genres at once – merging the cannibal film with the flesh-eating zombie…
Sans Sommation
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to the 1973 German-French-Italian co-production Sans Sommation (called WITHOUT APPEAL in the UK, worldwide English title WITHOUT WARNING), helmed by French director Bruno Gantillon and featuring a score by Daniele Patucchi. The film is an entertaining thriller that plays out satisfactorily.
Maurice Ronet stars as discredited police inspector Raoul Maury, who made the mistake as a policeman of going after a politician's ne…
Il Sorriso Del Ragno
* 2023 stock * Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the CD soundtrack to Il Sorriso Del Ragno, composed by Daniele Patucchi. The title of this 1971 Italian film is properly translated into English as "The Spider's Smile," but the film, if known at all, is probably best recognized by its International English title, Web Of Deception. It's the only film directed by Massimo Castellani, who had better success as a script supervisor and a second unit or assistant director.
Based on a script writ…
Keoma / Il Cacciatore Di Squali
** 180g black vinyl with a gatefold tip-on cover** Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the first fully licensed and official release of the sought after soundtrack of Keoma, now on vinyl for the first time! Keoma features a unique and pervasive score by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis. These prolific musical brothers are well known for their predominantly song-based approach to scoring Italian films. With their background in popular music, it's no surprise that their film scoring approach is p…
Metralleta Stein
Chris' Soundtrack Corner proudly presents the soundtrack to Metralleta Stein, an adventurous crime thriller written and directed by José Antonio de la Loma, taken for the first time from the first generation tapes (previ ous releases were taken from the LP master). This film was the third movie in a trilogy of crime thrillers involving Police Comisario Emilio Mendoza; the first two had featured the intrepid Comisario investigating urban crime and drug traffickers; Metralleta Stein is a more reso…