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Beat Records releases for the first time on CD a rare treat by the prolific Stelvio Cipriani for a docu-film exploring fraud in the sport of boxing. The film was directed in 1975 by Oscar Brazzi and starred his brother Rossano Brazzi in the role of a journalist who boldly investigates the seedy underbelly of the boxing world. Stelvio Cipriani composed a brilliant score, almost in contrast to the brutal images of the movie, incorporating styles such as Charleston, Country, Blues and a recurring S…

Beat Records continues to explore the career of Gianni Marchetti by issuing his complete soundtrack from the film Colpo di stato (aka Coup D'Etat), a satirical, political comedy directed in 1969 by Luciano Salce . In addition to the original 33 rpm album material in stereo (29:02), another 25 minutes of mono bonus tracks were discovered and added for a total time of 54:20. Maestro Marchetti proves once again his enormous talent by writing a memorable score with classic flavor and lounge music so…

This release pays homage to the popular Argentinian composer and Oscar Award winner Luis Enrique Bacalov and his contributions to Italian cinema (to which he has given so much during his long and still active career). Luomo che sfidò l'organizzazione (One Man Against The Organization) was directed by Sergio Grieco in 1975 starring Howard Ross, Karin Schubert and Jean-Claude Dreyfus. The great Maestro's score - a true rarity - is finally made available, filling a gap that has long needed to be fi…

80 years after his birth, Beat Records in collaboration with Nocturno Cinema pays homage to Joe D'Amato (aka Aristide Massacesi), a brilliant, irreverent, talented pioneer of our local film industry. An undisputed and controversial maestro of cinema, the great cameramen and daring filmmaker made over 200 films spanning virtually every genre, from westerns to horror, from swashbucklers to peplum, from fantasy to hard and softcore erotica. Our first release in this new series dedicated to a great …

In this double-bill dedicated to the work of maestro John Sposito, we present two rare scores composed by him in 1987 for two diametrically different films by Mario Bianchi: Riflessi di luce (Reflections Of Light) and Non aver paura della zia Marta (aka The Broken Mirror and Don't Be Afraid Of Aunt Martha). The first is a softcore drama starring the beautiful Pamela Prati, the second a horror feature presented on TV by Lucio Fulci - two movies with alternate fates that have the artistry of the R…

After Yeti il Gigante del XX° secolo, Beat Records is pleased to add a new release from the discography of the Maestro Sante Maria Romitelli to its catalog: Top Sensation, directed in 1969 by Ottavio Alessi. Everything seems to shine on a luxury yacht under the hot summer sun in the middle of the deep blue sea, but a bloody tragedy among breathtaking babes, brutal murders and a young psychopath out of control is right around the corner. Maestro Romitelli paints the contrasting scenes with Beat m…

Jona che visse nella balena (Look to the Sky) is a movie directed by Roberto Faenza in 1993 starring Jean-Hugues Anglade, Juliet Aubrey and Jenner Del Vecchio. The story is based on the deportation of a Jewish family from Amsterdam to a Nazi prison camp and the holocaust as witnessed through the eyes of Jona, wrenched from his world and forced into a horrible new setting. It's a wonderful movie that brings a new variant on the theme, filtered through the eyes of a child and featuring a powerful …

Il Fischio Al Naso (aka ''The Seventh Floor '') is a dramatic movie directed in 1967 by Ugo Tognazzi. Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Tina Louise, Olga Villi, Alicia Brandet, Franca Bettoja, Gigi Ballista, Gildo Tognazzi, Marco Ferreri, Riccardo Garrone, Alessandro Quasimodo, Max Turilli, Federico Boido, Cristina D'Avanzo, Cesare Gelli, Janine Reynaud, Luigi Leoni, Rossella Bergamonti, Renato Nicolai, Giulio Scarnicci, Renzo Tarabusi, George Wallis, Genny Folchi, Ermelinda De Felice, Mario De Simone, Alessa…

Beat Records adds to its catalog a score composed by the great Carlo Rustichelli , an artist who if we had a film music constitution would surely be one of its founding fathers. Scacco internazionale (The Last Chance, 1969) is an Italian ''Bond'' movie, also known as Eurospy, on the prolific trail of the deeds of the popular James Bond, the MI6 agent with ample supplies of high-tech gadgets and beautiful women. In this movie we find a link to that fortunate franchise in the presence of Daniela B…

A summer dedicated to spy movies, with intriguing landscapes, breathtaking girls and adventure! For the first time ever, Beat Records releases the complete score for La morte viene da Manila, another hidden gem composed by Maestro de Masi, master of the genre and one of the most prolific composers of the ‘60s. With his symphonic orchestral score and spy-oriented sound, this great music in the typical style of the period will bring mysterious and suggestive atmospheres to your summer listening ex…

We continue our renaissance of the great Piero Umiliani's body of work with this 2-CD edition of the score of La legge dei gangsters (Gangster's Law), a movie directed by Siro Marcellini in 1969 starring Klaus Kinsky, Maurice Poli and Franco Citti . The backdrop for the Maestro's score is the streets of Genoa, a robbery, treachery and gunfights: fertile ground in which the Florentine composer put the roots of his talent with a dynamic and harmonic score, sophisticated and original, romantic and …

Sinfonia per due spie (Serenade for Two Spies) is an Euro Spy movie directed by Alberto Cardone in 1965 starring Hellmut Lange, Tony Kendall and Barbara Lass . The movie taps into the gold vein discovered by the Bond movie franchise and is considered an entertaining production by lovers of the genre. The score by the late Maestro surely provides punctual proof of the skill and expertise of the popular Roman composer, able sculptor of perfect atmospheres for these kinds of movies (such as Colpo M…

I demoni di San Pietroburgo(2008, The Demons OF ST. Petersburg) marks the twelfth collaboration between director Giuliano Montaldo and composer Ennio Morricone. The score was released as a limited edition earlier this year by Keep Moving Records and quickly sold out. Now available once again in this deluxe edition by Beat Records, the Maestro's intimate, orchestral, melodic score is celebrated once again, with a 16-page booklet featuring original artwork from the film and liner notes by French c…

I dolci vizi della casta Susanna (The Sweet Sins Of Sexy Susan) belongs to a genre that can only be called ''decamerotic.'' The Italian-Austrian-Hungarian co-production was directed in 1967 by Franz Antel and starred Teri Tordai, Mike Marshall and Pascal Petit. The most memorable aspect of this humorous comedy with blushing cheeks is surely the beautiful score by the late Maestro Gianni Ferrio. Cheerful, lively and baroque-flavored sounds explode in unchained shakes and beat cues that will make …

Beat Records releases for the first time on CD the complete score by Francesco De Masi for the TV program Alla scoperta dell'Africa, directed by Folco Quilici in 1966. For this CD we used the mono master tapes of the original recording session which allowed us to discover additional music not included on the CAM 33 rpm. Maestro De Masi composed a fascinating lounge score with jazz atmospheres alternated with other exotic and mysterious sounds. Now available in our BCM series with a 12-page bookl…

The story follows an FBI agent who's up against a dangerous criminal gang that takes its name from the yellow viper's deadly poison which they use for their lethal poison-tipped arrows. It's a title of great interest to Beat Records since it's completely unreleased and was composed in one of the most creative periods of Maestro de Masi's career (during which he composed some of the most beautiful Spy-Jazz scores ever, including Troppo per vivere… poco per morire, Colpo maestro al servizio di Sua…

The eighth and final release of the short series dedicated to the work of the popular Roman composer Piero Piccioni, Fratello Mare (Brother Sea) was directed in 1975 by Folco Quilici and focuses on the tourism that is plundering one of the heavens on Earth: in this case, Polynesia. Through his personal recollections, the protagonist, an old fisherman, gives life to his relationship with the seaside and the social evolution of his homeland. With great bitterness, he bears witness to the unscrupul…

Vita Segreta Di Una Diciottenn (The Eyes) gives us an opportunity to bring to light another great score by the eclectic Italian composer Gianni Marchetti, a fine musician with profound artistic vision. In an ongoing effort to rediscover his work for cinema, we've dedicated a lot of releases to the Maestro in the past few years, including Milano: Il Clan Dei Calabresi, Le Notti Porno Nel Mondo N. 2, Il Sole Nella Pelle, Nipoti Miei Diletti and Cicciolina Amore Mio. Creating unforgettable sounds o…

Following our release of the score for Vita Segreta Di Una Diciottenne, we present the definitive edition of Diario Segreto Di Una Minorenne, again composed by the great Maestro Gianni Marchetti, the popular Italian composer who recently passed away. The movie was directed in 1968 by Oscar Brazzi and stars Rossano Brazzi and Mimma Biscardi in the role of a teenager trying to understand life. The score by the Maestro is, as usual, of great craftsmanship, with infectious rhythms and a style that w…

We continue our exploration of the immense discography of late Maestro Francesco De Masi, Italian and international film score icon and dear friend of our label. FBI Operazione Pakistan (1966) is another piece of the immense jigsaw of great music, colors, emotions and art that make up the immense sonic tapestry produced by the Roman composer, always of the highest quality. This score takes its inspiration from the Euro Spy genre, very well tested in the compositional mechanism of the artist, alw…

A summer dedicated to spy movies, with intriguing landscapes, breathtaking girls and adventure! For the first time ever, Beat Records releases the complete score for Mark Donen Agente Zeta 7, a project waiting far too long to be released and making his appearance with La Morte Viene Da Manila. The music is different but the execution equally excellent. Maestro Aldo Piga brings nocturnal jazz, tension, thrills, action and wonderful orchestral sonorities that make you believe in the existence of m…

The 7th release in the series dedicated to the great scores composed by M° Piccioni features a cinematic meeting of the great Maestro with Alberto Lattuada, director of Cuore di cane (1976, Dog's Heart), starring Max Von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf and Cochi Ponzoni. Set in the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the movie presented a new challenge for M° Piccioni, namely how to score the vicissitudes of a character engineered in a laboratory, half man, half dog. The eclecticism of this extraordi…

A milestone release! After two years of suffering, we finally succeed in giving birth to the wonderful score for the movie Basta guardarla, a masterpiece directed in 1970 by Luciano Salce and starring Maria Grazia Buccella, Carlo Giuffrè, Mariangela Melato and Pippo Franco . It's the story of Silver Boy and Enrichetta, a girl from the country who ends up as a performer in a traveling theater company in a kaleidoscope of funny situations counterpointed by the wonderful score composed by M° Franco…

A project very dear to us, Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane (Tiko and the Shark) is a bona-fide classic in M° de Masi's discography. Directed in 1962 by Folco Quilici, it features a pleasant story about the friendship of a young Polynesian, his shark and a girl on vacation. The wonderful score by M° de Masi was previously released, but loving the music as we do, we couldn't refrain from releasing it again in a definitive edition. The popular Roman composer, particularly inspired by the movie, created …

This release marks the debut of an unreleased ''couple'' in our catalog: director Umberto Lenzi and composer Sergio Patucchi (aficionados of our productions). The latter was given the task of composing the score for The Man From The Deep River (in Italy known as Il Paese Del Sesso Selvaggio), an adventure movie shot by the great living Tuscan Icon in 1972. The movie starred Ivan Rassimov in the guise of an adventurer in faraway lands. The music? In the director's words, ''The score was given to …

A new tribute to the great Maestro Roberto Pregadio, who recently passed away and who gave so much to Italian cinema and television, we present his never-before-released score for Erika, a dramatic movie shot in 1971 by Filippo Walter Ratti and featuring Pierre Brice, Patrizia Viotti and Bernard De Vries. Great lounge sonorities were sewn into the scenes by the renowned composer and musician, author of some of the most beautiful soundtracks of this type in the mythical decade of the ‘70s. Erika …

Questo Si Che E' Amore (Last Touch Of Love) was directed in 1978 by Filippo Ottoni and starred Christopher George, Gay Hamilton, Laura Trotter and Sven Valsecchi. It tells the story of a terminally-ill young boy who is forced to live in a hospital and of his gesture of love that will bring his parents together again at the cost of his own life. A movie in the tear-jerker genre - which was very popular at the time - the score was composed by a Maestro very dear to Beat Records: Stelvio Cipriani, …

Italiani Brava Gente is a movie based on a tragic page of Italian history during the Second World War. Hitler opens the Russian front, and his ally Mussolini sends an Italian army to support the German advance. The aftermath is disastrous; a poorly-equipped and under-supported war force is sent to be butchered in the frigid Russian winter. Although a work of historical fiction, De Santis' film was shot in an almost documentary-style and focuses heavily on the stories of the Italian and Russian p…

Stelvio Cipriani is the protagonist of this felicitous meeting with the music of genre cinema, this time dedicated to the exotic adventure movie Luana, La Figlia Della Foresta Vergine (aka Luana, The Girl Tarzan). Rife with suggestive scenography, the movie was shot in 1968 by Roberto Infascelli and features Mei Chen in the guise of the beautiful Luana and Glenn Saxon as the adventurer. Naturally, a highlight is the wonderful score by Maestro Stelvio Cipriani, living icon and artistic liaison fo…

A rare gem, finally discovered in the great ocean of unreleased Italian scores, Il plenilunio delle vergini (1973, aka ''Full Moon of the Virgins'' and ''The Devil's Wedding Night'') was composed by the late Bulgarian Vasco Vassil Kojucharov, Roman-adopted and imported by Cinecittà into the Italian music biz in order to express his personal talent in the field of soundtrack composing. ''Il plenilunio delle vergini'' is in the Italian Gothic genre and features vampires, sacrifices of cute, young …

5000 Dollari sull'asso is a Western film that was directed by Alfonso Balcazar in 1965 and starred Robert Woods, Fernando Sancho, Helmut Schmid and Maria Sebaldt. It's a movie that diverged from the Spaghetti Western genre that was developing in that period, more prone to satisfy the classic Hollywood audience. The great cast featured Robert Woods as the protagonist and the terrible Fernando Sancho in an unusual role, with the two unlikely allies joining up to fight the baddies. And the score? A…

Who would you rather be: the unmerciful Sartana or the vengeful Johnny? Whichever you choose, you'll have the opportunity to personalize this flip-cover edition of the original motion picture soundtrack of the movie 1000 dollari sul nero. The year is 1966, and we are on the rising wave of Italian Westerns, a rich gold vein discovered two years earlier by Sergio Leone. Director Alberto Cardone digs into this vein, creating this movie that introduces for the first time, at least by name, the Sarta…

After the expanded version of the score for the TV series ''Il Killer,'' we return to Gianni Ferrio for this score from 1966. Composed during the golden era of Italo-Westerns for a movie that actually has little to do with that genre - even if at the time speaking it was disguised in such a way as to dazzle would-be audiences - Gringo, getta il fucile! (aka ''The Tough One'') starred the baddest of bad guys: Fernando Sancho. It's an adventure movie set in South America for a story that follows t…

In 2013, thanks to the collaboration with Sugar Group and the Umiliani Estate archives, we launched a new series dedicated to the discovery of the immense talent of this wonderful composer. Through our efforts we were able to retrieve many beautiful soundtracks, some of which we've already released: ''Intrigo a Los Angeles,'' ''Jerry Land Cacciatore di Spie,'' ''Il marchio di Kriminal,'' and sound library albums such as ''Discomusic'' and ''Tra scienza e fantascienza.'' Many others are just wait…

It was 1969, a peculiar period from a social and political point of view. A disillusioned communist, ex partisan, and nephew of an important figure in the Salò Republic decides to dedicate himself to cinema, becoming a director after having been an intellectual. We are talking about Maurizio Liverani, director of this strange movie in which he denounced the ambiguities of the communist political class in a way that at the time speaking was deemed scandalous. It features a good cast starring the …

The third chapter in our 2013 series dedicated to the great music composed by M° Piero Piccioni is based on a peculiar film: the horror-documentary movie Il demonio, directed in 1964 by Brunello Rondi and starring Daliah Lavi and Frank Wolff. A film inspired by real events that happened in the south of Italy, it tells the story of a scorned woman who seeks to avenge on her ex-lover with a spell, after which the townspeople accuse her of being possessed by the devil. The directorial style fluctua…

The second of our 2013 series featuring Piero Piccioni's great music for cinema is the score for L'attico (1962). Gianni Puccini directed this bittersweet comedy with a great cast that included Daniela Rocca, Tomas Milian, Philippe Leroy and Walter Chiari . The score by the Maestro flowed from his prolific, creative veins in the middle of a period of great artistic output by the popular composer. In the case of ''L'attico'' we are delighted by a soundtrack that is compact yet at the same time do…

2012 was the year dedicated to Francesco de Masi and his wonderful scores for Western movies (the last chapter of the series is coming soon!). For 2013, we introduce a new monographic series dedicated to a great Maestro who is unfortunately no longer with us: Piero Piccioni. This series avails of choices made with great attention, with the aim to compile a chronological selection that spans more than two decades. Our series begins in 1959, and the first score chosen is among those that most dese…

We continue our journey in the world depicted by the popular Veronese novelist, Emilio Salgari, and cinematic transpositions of his novels by great Italian director Umberto Lenzi. After La Montagna Di Luce we release 2 other score of this genre: Sandokan La Tigre Di Mompracem and I 3 Sergenti Del Bengala. The first, a co-production with Mgm, starred the famous American actor Steeve Reeves in the role of super popular Malaysian pirate, the second, inspired to Salgarian style has been released fro…

A legendary composer is rightly celebrated with the release of this CD featuring a completely unreleased score! La faccia violenta di New York a movie shot in 1973 by Jorge Darnell and starring Mimsy Farmer, Fernando Rey, Sergio Jiménez and Luigi Pistilli. The score was composed by one of the greatest of Italian and international film music: Riz Ortolani. For this movie with an acrid flavor he wrote a symphonic score that highlights a romantic theme that is orchestrated in many guises from the m…