4 Mosche di Velluto Grigio
Black Vinyl. Manic percussion, tense staccato strings, discordant piano riffs, and jazz-rock motifs – this is Il Maestro at his finest. Ams is proud to present the definitive release of Ennio Morricone’s score to Dario Argento’s 1972 giallo classic Four Flies On Grey Velvet (a.k.a. 4 Mosche di Velluto Grigio). Based around a psychologically embattled rock musician who finds himself in extraordinarily mysterious circumstances, Argento’s third film (as well as the last offering of his Animal Trilo…
Gangsters '70
Cinedelic returns on the back of some pretty incredible releases over the last year with one of their most exciting and unexpected records to date, the first ever release of the legendary composer Egisto Macchi's soundtrack for Mino Guerrini’s 1968 film, “Gangsters '70”. Created in collaboration with his Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza associate, Walter Branchi, it's among the most strikingly experimental of all his soundtrack work and remains startlingly urgent more than half a centu…
Chronopolis
Limited to 45 copies. In Andy Ortmann's own words: Earlier in 2020 I was commissioned to score a film of my choosing. Chronopolis (Piotr Kamler) from 1982 was my first choice. It was to have been debuted in Chicago over a 16 channel speaker system, incidentally this was the first event to my knowledge to be cancelled due to Covid-19, furthermore it was Friday the 13th. I re-edited the the film to 40 minutes and re-scored it from the ground up. This took no less than 40 hours in the studio to co…
Prega Il Morto E Ammazza Il Vivo
* Remastered. Edition of 500 copies, comes with a 12pp booklet * ''Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo'' is a 1971 movie directed by Giuseppe Vari with Klaus Kinski starring as Don Hogan, a dangerous bandit who is trying to flee to Mexico with some accomplices and a load of gold. The band is halted at a ranch where they meet a mysterious gunslinger, John Webb, who is there not just by sheer chance… A movie of suspense and paranoia centered around the interactions between characters that are influen…
Les Stances À Sophie
On May 28, 1969, four American musicians — reed/wind players Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, bassist Malachi Favors, and (accompanied by his wife, singer Fontella Bass) trumpeter Lester Bowie — boarded the ocean liner S.S. United States, bound for Le Havre, France. After landing five days later, they moved on to Paris, where they got to work. On August 22, 1970, in the waning days of their stay overseas, the group, with Bass on vocals, would record their second release for EMI’s Pathé Marconi…
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
** Limited art edition comes with a hand-numbered art print by Nan Goldin »Barbara in Mask, Washington D.C., 1953«, printed on 350g silk paper & signed by the artist, in an edition of 250 copies ** Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated film »All the Beauty and the Bloodshed« is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin. Told through intimate interviews, photography, and footage, central to the story is her personal fight to hold the Sackle…
Witchfinder General (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
This is THE FIRST EVER commercial vinyl release of the classic folk horror score, presented in an incredible pop-up Witchfinder sleeve!
Veruschka
** Yellow Vinyl **One of the most haunting Morricone soundtracks ever -- and one of the grooviest too! The album's a perfect blend of our two favorite styles of Morricone work -- that of the floating female vocal over a gentle groove, and the darker, tenser side of his music: Ennio Morricone's famous soundtrack composed for the 1971 Franco Rubartelli documentary Veruschka, Poesia Di Una Donna. The main "Verushka" theme is one of his most beautiful -- a variation of female vocals with a gentle ed…
Italian Masters
The three volumes dedicated to Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli and Ennio Morricone combined in one VINYL volume to be released by Cinedelic.
Anthology Of Experimental Music From Latin America
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* "Not the walls that should collapse is that passive place and "of craftsmanship" that the market has given to the Latin American. Today, for a Latin American artist to be recognized in the global art markets, he must be able to say "from here I speak". Recovering myths, traditions, ancestral cultures and popular are some of the twists that artists seek to be legitimized. "And I wonder: why? Already when you start working with record labels, you realize that it is…
Clouds
More than to reward the artistic ambitions of the artist, the majority of Library records were generally functional to sonorizations and conceived for a commercial use. So the main difficulty for the artist was to demonstrate his compositional versatility that allowed the use of his songs in different contests : documentaries, spaghetti western movies, television programs and dramas, news reports. “Clouds”, fourth chapter of this new and exciting Spettro series, is a classic library release in i…
Notte Fantasma
*In process of stocking* In a nocturnal and mysterious Rome, an encounter between two unusual characters. From an idea by Fulvio Risuleo (subject, screenplay and direction) a film 'Tutto in una Notte', an original take on the neo-noir genre, also thanks to the music by Francesco Rita. music by Francesco Rita. Abstract and rarefied atmospheres alternate with songs with a romantic flavour. Songs with a romantic flavour, composing a heterogeneous and suggestive picture around the two characters. tw…
Santa Sangre - 30th Anniversary Limited Edition
*In process of stocking* Santa Sangre is a 1989 film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by the director himself in collaboration with the screenwriter Roberto Leoni and the well-known producer Claudio Argento; a surrealist and avant-garde work, hallucinatory and psychedelic and horror-tinged, whose themes include that of childhood trauma and the relationship between mother and child. All the typical ingredients of Simon Boswell's style are in this album, multi-instrumentalist, music pr…
Anthology Of Contemporary Music From South Africa
*Limited edition of 200 copies.* Over the last decades, South Africa has become a new hub for exploratory music and sound art. There a community of practitioners of experimental, improvisational, and otherwise avant-garde musicians is growing each year with a focus on creating a supporting, nurturing environment. With increased public exposure to these alternative forms of musical creativity, the future of this experimentation is bright. Music festivals like SENSA (Sonic Exploration Network Sout…
Bali
** First ever vinyl pressing, orange vinyl ** Bali is a 1970 movie directed by Ugo Liberatore with leading actors Laura Antonelli and John Steiner; the film belongs to those year's exotic/erotic popular genre, and benefits of a soundtrack composed and directed by pianist, composer and arranger Giorgio Gaslini, soon to be a collaborator of Dario Argento for the music of “Le Cinque Giornate” (1973) and “Profondo Rosso” (1975).The "Bali" soundtrack has two distinct souls. The first, corresponding t…
Bruno Nicolai in Giallo
* 4xCD Box Deluxe * Digitmovies presents a limited edition box by Maestro Bruno Nicolai including "The case of the scorpion's tail” (aka “La coda dello scorpione”), “The case of the bloody iris” (aka “Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?”), “All the colors of the dark” (aka “Tutti i colori del buio”) and “Your vice is a locked room and only I have the key” (aka “Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave”).
Il Tempo Dello Spirito
* 2021 Restock, killer price. Last copies * Amongst the first bunch of this new label releases, we couldn’t miss a tribute to one of the greatest masters of libraries recordings, Alessandro Alessandroni, born in 1925. In his long career Alessandroni has published lots of soundtracks – and we mean lots of - and for this he’s considered a real star of Italian music. As a friend, and close collaborator of Ennio Morricone, he’s remembered as “the whistle man” for his fundamental contribution to the …
Controfase
Composed by Ennio Morricone alongside friend and frequent collaborator Bruno Nicolai, "Controfase" is one of the most overlooked and lesser known chapters in the maestro's extensive catalog. Various experimental elements perfectly intertwine in these skilful compositions, VCS3 blend with hair-raising violin notes on a pattern of ominous percussions by Egisto Macchi. With the precious help of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza as well as Edda Dell'Orso angelic voice, the two masterminds h…
Quando L'Amore E' Sensualita'
Undiscovered Morricone Soundtrack, Newly Remastered! Quando l'amore è sensualità (1973) is one of the undiscovered gems of the production of Ennio Morricone. Still unpublished in its entirety, this score is the manifesto of the "Morricone Segreto" concept. With its tonal experiments and compositional complexity, it shows the most obscure, dark-tinged, and psychedelic side of the Maestro and his unbridled creativity.
The score masterfully mirrors the lustful bourgeois hypocrisy portrayed in the c…
Musicasión 4½
Originally released in 1971, during the dark days of the military dictatorship in Uruguay, this unique album made a strong and lasting impression on Juana Molina when she was a child. The present reissue on Sonamos (Juana’s recently-formed owned label) is the result of a patient labor of love conducted by Juana and her associate producer Mario Agustin Gonzalez. This anniversary release comes our as a very limited-edition containing the remastered original LP, a second LP with 16 unreleased track…