Reissues
Oriental Music
Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue of Ammar El Sherei's superb instrumental album Oriental Music from 1976. Here, the iconic Egyptian musician and composer revisits six classic compositions by another Egyptian legend, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, in his own hypnotic way. Curated by Lebanese-born Arabic music expert Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The late musician and composer Ammar El Sherei was one of Egypt's musical giants. Born in Upper Egypt in 1948 into an upper mid…
Tokyo Dreaming
Double LP version. Tokyo Dreaming is a superb selection picked from the highly collectible Nippon Columbia label and its Better Days sub-label. Wewantsounds have teamed up with journalist and Japanese music expert Nick Luscombe. The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk, and ambient and includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan and the set has been newly remastered by Nippon Columbia. Nippon Columbia, one of Japan's oldest music labels…
Golden Dog
**500 copies** Golden Dog (Original Soundtrack) by Yuji Ohno was originally released in 1979. Ohno is best known for his soundtracks to Anime such as Lupin III and Captain Future. So if you’re fans of those particular soundtracks and a dog lover, you may well want to get on board with this jazz funk classic.
Yuji Ohno (大野 雄二, Ōno Yūji, born 30 May 1941 in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese jazz musician. Ohno is known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime television series, particularly …
TerrorVision
WRWTFWW Records announces the official reissue of Richard Band's director's cut soundtrack for sci-fi horror comedy classic, TerrorVision (1986). People of Earth Your planet is about to be destroyed... We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Conceived as a late 1960s Lost in Space type score with an '80s electronic twist, TerrorVision is one of the most unique soundtracks in Richard Band's discography. Part oddball adventure, part eerie soundscape, it mixes the fun and flashy colors of the e…
Troll
LP version. 180 gram, yellow vinyl; gatefold sleeve with full movie gallery, obi strip, video store stickers. WRWTFWW Records announce the official reissue of Richard Band's soundtrack for horror fantasy classic Troll (1986). The infamous Troll score is its very own kind of monster: an extended five-movement symphony conducted by Richard Band in full sorcery mode, creating exhilarating moments of excitement and seat-gripping intensity. At the center of the magnum opus lies the incredible "Cantos…
A Letter from Slowboat
LP version. 180 gram vinyl; Half speed mastered; Heavy sleeve and obi. We Release Jazz announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui's final album, the very personal contemporary jazz offering, A Letter from Slowboat, sourced from the original masters. Known for his miraculous albums 1976's Scenery (WRJ 001CD/LP) and 1977's Mellow Dream (WRJ 002CD/LP), legendary Hokkaido pianist Ryo Fukui, with the help of his wife Yasuko, opened his very own jazz club in Sapporo in 1995, Slowboat. This is where Ry…
Ryo Fukui in New York
LP version. 180 gram vinyl; Half speed mastered; Heavy sleev and obi. We Release Jazz announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui's New York sessions with Lisle Atkinson and Leroy Williams, the aptly titled album Ryo Fukui in New York, sourced from the original masters. Recorded in February 1999 at Avatar Recording Studios in New York and inspired by Ryo Fukui's idol and mentor Barry Harris, the fourth album from the famed Sapporo pianist captures memorable sessions with seasoned American jazz mu…
Composer, Fluxist and Out of Order
We're absolutely thrilled to offer a small handful of freshly unearthed copies of long out of print volume, "Composer, Fluxist and Out of Order", arguably the most comprehensive monograph ever dedicated to the life and work of the Danish multi-disciplinary artist and composer Henning Christiansen. Issued in a heavyweight, hard-cover bilingual (English & Danish) edition, stretching to a stunning 578 pages, containing numerous texts and anecdotes by Christiansen and others, as well as extensive do…
Les Secrets De La Mer Rouge
Transversales Disques presents for the first time on LP, François de Roubaix’s full score for the French TV series Les Secrets de la Mer Rouge, an adaptation of the epic travel, through the Middle East, of the famous writer and explorer Henri de Monfreid. This album is a collection of the original (1967) themes and those recorded later in 1975 when the TV series was continued. In the 1967 soundtrack, de Roubaix uses various flutes, marine conches, and for underwater views, unexpected instrument…
Les Oiseaux Morts / Back To Life
French avantgarde Jazz-Funk pioneers Cortex released three milestone albums during the seventies including the iconic Troupeau Bleu. Their music has been sampled by Hip Hop artists such as MF Doom, Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco and Rick Ross and as a consequence is still very much alive today.
Trad Vibe Records proudly presents a first time re-issue of their double sider 7inch single from 1976 Les Oiseaux Morts / Back To Life. We are sure that you will enjoy the melancholic beauty of “Les Oiseaux Mor…
Ravissante Baby
Rare funk & Avant-Garde soul from a seven years old kid singer featuring the best of French and Cameroonian musicians diaspora, recorded in Paris in 1977. The album contains two nicely dramatic tracks: “Look Up in the sky (Negro nature)” is a stretched funk groove with psyche synth by Michel Morose, bubbling bassline by the great Victor Edimo, the famous Toto Guillaume on guitar, and a brilliant poetic song by Francis The Great, who at that time studied in Menilmontant (Paris). “Ravissante Baby …
Quando la Coppia Scoppia
Quando La Coppia Scoppia is a 1981 film directed by Steno and starring Enrico Montesano, Claude Brasseur, and Dalila Di Lazzaro in a comedy in which the protagonist Enrico Granata (Montesano) is facing a matrimonial crisis as a third party (Brasseur) tries to steal his wife (Di Lazzaro). A movie gifted with a score by Piero Umiliani, until now completely unreleased, one of the last composed by him and which denotes, once again, the maestro's proficiency in jazz orchestrations and provides rhythm…
Violentata sulla Sabbia / Bella di Giorno Moglie di Notte
Digitmovies presents a reissue of two 1971 soundtracks by Gianfranco Plenizio, Violentata sulla Sabbia and Bella di Giorno Moglie di Notte. This CD was made from the stereo master tapes from the 1971 recording session, in which Plenizio composed two elegant orchestral soundtrack pieces with a lounge atmosphere, using a solo instrument and the beautiful voice of Edda Dell'Orso. The protagonists of the two films, Vanina and Paola, were filmed with alternating main scores which go from mysterious a…
Omicidio per Vocazione
Digitmovies release on CD Stefano Torossi's complete original soundtrack for the film Omicidio per Vocazione ("Deadly Inheritance", "L'assassino ha le Mani Pulite"). Stefano Torossi composed a lounge-style score where the noir side of the story is contrasted with a danceable shake. There are also plenty of romantic themes as well as an atmosphere of suspense typical of giallo films. Originally C.A.M. had released eight musical selections on a promotional LP paired with the OST from the film (E' …
Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne
Digitmovies release for the first time on CD Luciano Michelini's original soundtrack for the giallo film Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne ("The Suspicious Death Of A Minor"). Luciano Michelini composed one of the most interesting OSTs of giallo and noir film genres. The dramatic main score is pop dominated by organs and rhythms with hints of the goblins in the film "Deep Red". It's introduced in the first part of the opening credits and then reprised, while the second part introduces folk music f…
Lucio Fulci's Gates Of Hell Trilogy
* Hard paper box; 40-page booklet. * Gates of Hell Trilogy is Beat Records' tribute to the popular apocryphal trilogy directed by horror cinema legend Lucio Fulci in the early '80s, three movies that marked the evolution of the director's style over just two years. Starting with Paura Nella Citta' Dei Morti Viventi (1980), going through E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore... L'aldila'! (1981), and ending with Quella Villa Accanto Al Cimitero (1981), all three featured the beautiful and skilled Catriona MacC…
Albert e l'Uomo Nero
In process of stocking. Digitmovies issuing for the first time on CD Franco Micalizzi's complete original soundtrack for the cult TV mini-series Albert e l'uomo Nero (aka "Albert And The Boogie Man") which had been broadcasted in three episodes by Italian television in 1976. The series was directed by Dino B. Partesano. While running in the country around a big villa close to Ravenna where he lives with his dad and his aunt Teresa, little Albert, a kid only ten-years-old, finds the corpse of hi…
Ruba al prossimo tuo
Digitmovies presents a reissue of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, a 1968 film by Francesco "Citto" Maselli. The 1995 GDM Music compilation With Love presented a collection of love themes by Ennio Morricone. One theme, from Ruba Al Prossimo Tuo, was enclosed directly transferred from the music track of the movie itself, but the source was in such terrible conditions that did not make it possible to create a CD master. An expanded suite (from the same disputable source) was …
L’Ossessa
In process of stocking. Digitmovies release, for the first time as a complete edition on CD, Marcello Giombini's soundtrack for the horror film Enter The Devil ("L'Ossessa") (1974). Giombini (1928-2003) experimented with symphonic music, electronic music and also religious music with a rock beat during his career. For cinema he wrote numerous soundtracks including the well-known ones from the Sabata trilogy of spaghetti westerns, for the cult horror film Antropophagus (1980) and the main score f…
Arcana / L'uomo Del Tesoro Di Priamo
In process of stocking. Digitmovies release for the first time on CD two extremely rare original soundtracks by Romolo Grano from the film Arcana and the TV show L'uomo Del Tesoro Di Priamo. For Arcana, Romolo Grano composed an OST where the main score emerges as a sort of concerto in three movements performed by an orchestra (with an emphasis on winds), the voice of Edda Dell'Orso, and pieces played by a Hammond organ. The score develops into an impending classic theme with the modern sound of …