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Destroy: Mission to Mars soundtrack. Every bit as godawful as the movie.

Morricone's free improv/avant garde roots can be heard in Gruppo di Impoovvisazione Nuova Consonanza, ed.rz 1009

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hamid

isn't this a bit like saying "I know all the good and distinctive stuff he did, but what about all the somewhat dull non-spaghetti western music he did?"

Gareth said to leave the spaghetti western type stuff but you really have to get yr hands on the 2 CD/LP 'the good the bad and the ugly' (1966) issued on the dagored label. I d/l from slsk and the whole thing, from the orchestral outtakes to the classic theme we all know and love does needs to be heard as as a record but and as a way of registering the images with the sound of the movie itself.

(I've also got hold of 'i cannibali' and I'll report on that later)

But the one that burns is 'gil occhi freddi della paura' from 1972 (on dagored, I scored it 2nd hand this afternoon), where he gets Gruppo di Impoovvisazione Nuova Consonanza to play on it, and its probably one of the most 'accessible' avant garde ever full stop. He somehow gets some of those shapes you hear in european improv and makes a fucking soundtrack out of it!!! I still need to give this a few listens but its fucking great stuff so far.

bah fuck this, what I kind of mean is that the soundtrack kind of overwhelms the images for me so I can't quite concentrate on what's happening when i watch the movie.

So get the soundtrack, get accustomed to the sound, register its impact, and maybe you can sit down and look at both sound AND image.

do you like che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? (and make sure you get the version that is 4:56 before the other 2, as they all have the same name)

No, i'll won't mention the 'Thing' (Carpenter) OST though its the most effective soundtrack ever...

heard 'i cannibali' and its another wonderful 20 mins. Hear the scott walker but not much sesame street, the arrangements are quite something.

ok its great that I'm beginning to get more recommendations here. So Kinski, what is so much better abt 'veruschuka' than the stuff he is primarily known for (morricone has been a hard subject for ilm, check a few of his other threads, usually just see comps and not specifics)?

eleki- yeah, I see what you're saying abt 'effective' soundtracks in movies but they can def work as records, the great is that someone like morricone seemed to squeeze quite a bit in a min or two, he does use that as a strength and that's what makes him to be so good (at least from what I'm hearing so far).

And of the Spag stuff, "The Adventurer"....

*like all the noisy bits in the "Hatchet for the Honeymoon" soundtrack by Sante Maria Romitelli seemed to be a tape of the same noisy part mixed over the different orchestral cues that you hear on the CD.

kaija saariaho wd struggle to compose something this good!!!

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hello
Iam an iranian in Iran some of the people love your film music but thay can not take your music in iranian shopping Iam so like your music of cinema paradiso but Idont provide it in iran may you send this music in my email.

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hamid

― hamid ahsani, Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this dude is basically the gnarliest

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1389539.php/Report_Morricone_to_make_soundtrack_for_Iranian_Khomeini_film

search the score to "two mules for sister sara" (not a bad film, directed by don siegel starring clint eastwood and shirley maclaine). morricone's interpretation of the "title music" is to interpolate odd electronic farts meant to suggest the braying of a donkey alongside a very church-sounding chorus. as usual, much of the rest of the soundtrack is morricone mixing around (in enjoyable if not revelatory ways) the stuff from the main title, and of course the usual pretty mood-setting music. but the best tracks are really impressive and fun, if you're into the more mannered "navajo joe" type morricone western stuff.

seriously how often do film composers have the cojones to be so audaciously inventive?

Orca The Killer Whale!!!

The Mike Patton-curated comp Crime And Dissonance gathers two discs of Morricone at his most out there. I wish there was 20 volumes of it.

Rhino comp is out of print and Rhino is gutting staff #FML

I seriously think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly may be the best movie theme ever.

Although embarrassingly I've never seen the actual film.

movie is great -- perfect combo of music/imagery/mood

his Grande Silenzio is worth checking (and widely available on Soulseek) been listening to it all day after seeing the movie recently. snow western!
http://g.virbcdn.com/i/resize_575x575/PageImage-350945-1544049-il_grande_silenzio_1.jpg

There's a new compilation of vocal tracks out on Ace - too much late era ponderous "pretty girl sings cod-classical" stuff for my taste, but it does include this Amii Stewart track, which is great Yacht Soul imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5rPfk3zg7w

Learned recently that there's a Morricone autobiography! I struggle to think of what that might read like, considering he always seems disinterested in his music outside of the musique concrete stuff.

Speaking of, since he loves that stuff so much why doesn't he spend more of his twilight years doing abrasive music - I'm sure dozens of avante garde directors would kill for a soundtrack from him - instead of all these terrible boring collaborations with opera and easy listening divas?

Score for "Hateful Eight" was great, though.

It flat out blows me away just how many hours of music Morricone has done. The guy is over 500 soundtracks not even including music done outside his film work. That is just an astounding amount of music.

So much of his non-soundtrack work is so surprising, too: his secret identity as star songwriter and aranger in the 60's Italian Pop scene; the musique concrete stuff he did with Gruppo; a joint album with Chico Buarque!

Just listened to "Controfase", a weird experimental Morricone album issued as a library recording. I don't know much about that kind of music but it hit the spot.

the musique concrete stuff he did with Gruppo

I would describe that as (electroacoustic) improv rather than musique concrete, I'm not sure he ever produced musique concrete tbh.

agreed

the Improvisationen record is just breathtaking, so much detail packed into such quiet passages

RIP the mighty Alessandro Alessandroni.

Very sad. The Cantori Moderni had a lot of jams.

RIP ;_;

lol missed all this

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/playboy-germany-backtrack-ennio-morricone-quentin-tarantino-1203027132/

Enniotm

before or now?

Before obv.

Dude has open contempt for the majority of his own soundtrack work and has provided scores for plenty of z-grade sexploitation, I don't really see why anyone would care about his opinions on a director.

I mean don't get me wrong, I love his stuff and think the fact that he wishes he could just be known for his electroacoustic stuff is endearing, but I don't think he really cares about cinema much, in the end.

that he did let slip of what he really thought of QT off the record will be what I choose to remember!

fwiw he's also already said that, years ago, on the record. Dunno why this occasion went more viral than the last.

https://www.indiewire.com/2013/03/ennio-morricone-says-quentin-tarantino-uses-music-without-coherence-says-he-wont-work-with-him-again-100683/

Seems like his reaction has drawn more attention to it than would have otherwise been the case.

RIP

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-people-morricone/italian-composer-ennio-morricone-dies-report-idUKKBN2470OM

This is officially the worst fucking year of all-time. RIP :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjYLNIjugk

RIP the Maestro. I've almost certainly listened to more hours of his music than any other music in history and, in fact, right this minute I'm actually waiting delivery of another of his soundtracks.

I have an amazing Gruppo box - two CDs and a DVD and a nice booklet, packed in a handmade 12" x 12" wooden box (cause there were vinyl LPs in the super ultra deluxe edition). Might need to pull it off the shelf today.

Saw him conduct at Radio City Music Hall about 12-13 years ago, too. A lot of cheese, but when they did "The Ecstasy of Gold" it ruled.

RIP, so many hours listened to and it just hasn't felt like enough.

It's almost a full time job listening to Morricone!

Wow. If there is anything positive to say about this, he lived a long life and was almost inconceivably productive. I got to see him conduct at Radio City Music Hall, too, which iirc was apparently his first ever (and only?) appearance in the U.S..

I think he did more, but obviously not many. He was supposed to do a concert at Barclays Center in 2014, which I probably would've attended even though it's the worst f-ing venue for this sort of thing, but that got cancelled and I don't believe it was ever re-scheduled.

Anyway, Morricone and Bernard Herrmann were the two greatest film composers of all-time, IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nqRwX5ixc

Ennio Morricone, Italian composer who wrote ‘ah-ee-ah-ee-ah’ theme of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’ dies at 91 https://t.co/2A2UzG1eyZ

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 6, 2020

The Jimmy Saville theme of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.

Oh man this hurts even though it's not a major surprise. Greatest film composer of all time. As iconic as his western soundtracks are, his scores in all genres from roughly 1968 through 74 are virtually inexhaustible wells of ideal music (see, e.g., Maddalena, Veruschka, La Donna Invisible, Metti Una Sera a Cena, La Cosa Buffa, Giù la Testa, etc, etc.)

I've got the title theme of Veruschka on repeat rn; it sums up his greatness pretty well: gorgeous chord progression; hauntingly catchy melody; sensual wordless vocals from Edda Dell'Orso; lightly funky psychedelic production (see 00:42 for the gentlest, wooziest beat drop) and lush harpsichord-laden arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81dgyeIlJI

Hell of a run!

For a short while I was collecting some of his scores but in the long run I largely stuck with anthologies (the Mondo Morricone set especially). Still, one of my favorite scores is a relatively obscure one I found in a discount bin, Che C'Entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione (wistful, spacious, comical, melancholy).

RIP

An absolute giant.

Just listening to some of the music from "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" which has some guy screaming wordless gibberish over some random sloppy jamming and seems to be Morricone's approximation (and impression) of rock music - wicked sense of humour he had.

Come for the king, don't miss. And ask shorter questions:

Donald Fagen interviews Ennio Morricone (Premiere mag, 1989) pic.twitter.com/jJaEYkQEe9

— Kurt Loder (@kurt_loder) August 1, 2018

RIP to a true genius

my fave is the Gruppo Nuova material but "Il Gatto" is a favorite OST.

The Crime And Dissonance 2xCD on Ipecac is a pretty essential overview of the weirder stuff

what can you fucking say man
probably the most protean composer who ever lived
from the maddest noise improv to the most propulsive and catchy psych-rock to the pocket universe of the westerns to the most heart-easing bel canto

RIP, OPXX

The Thing
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Death Rides a Horse
Oceano
A Fistful of Dollars
Copkiller
Ad Ogni Costo
Il Prato
My Name Is Nobody
Slalom
Nostromo
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
I Magi Randagi
Chi L'Ha Vista Morire
Red Sonja
Once Upon a Time in the West
White Dog
'Tis Pity She's A Whore
Sahara

The Crime And Dissonance 2xCD on Ipecac is a pretty essential overview of the weirder stuff

Available on Bandcamp

a great comp but for any first time dabblers just be aware this is a very narrow cross-section of the morricone cosmos

complied by Alan Bishop iirc?

once i got to a certain breadth of morricone it to some extent made scg redundant for me, i mean i still love them but

RIP to the Maestro! It's amazing how many great soundtracks he composed for forgettable films. He scored 23 films in 1968 alone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Ennio_Morricone

Most English-speakers have never heard Ennio Morricone's extraordinary 1966 Italian pop song 'Se Telefonando.'

I URGE YOU TO LISTEN. He has you surrounded before you even realise it, & then you're soaring into its 8(!) key changes.

One of the best, most dramatic pop songs ever pic.twitter.com/wnzc9RPoYH

— Colin Walsh (@Clnwlsh) July 6, 2020

Lol

Morricone bringing the Oscars to a screeching halt to give his acceptance speech in Italian with a halting Eastwood live translation is the last and perhaps only time that I have enjoyed that ceremony. https://t.co/Vzoak6HJn6

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He must have missed Satyajit Ray satelliting in from his sickbed.

xpost yeah the songs-only Canto Morricone 4CD box (bear family) is well worth pirating

Morricone was a genius, but not enough of one to get me to listen to Italian pop.

Been listening to (a tiny selection of) his music all day, in ridiculously wide and varied styles, and intend continuing for the next few days, I'd kind of lost touch with him for a while there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEwOc6Uo6mk

so many i've never heard, including that ^

xpost yeah the songs-only Canto Morricone 4CD box (bear family) is well worth pirating

― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Sounds good. I've heard a couple of his pop songs today (had heard the one I posted before but without that video)

Drove back home yesterday from Chiricahua Mountains and had to throw on a Morricone westerns playlist. Obv fit the scenery perfectly.
RIP dude.

apparently he prepared his own announcement ahead of time and it has appeared in some of the Italian newspapers now. Translation (not mine obv):

"I, Ennio Morricone, am dead. So I announce it to all the close friends that always supported me, and also to the faraway friends, which I salute with great affection.
There's only one reason that brings me to say goodbye in this way, and also to require a strictly private funeral: I do not want to bother anybody."

<3

xposts OPXX, sure why not?

Maddalena
La Donna Invisible
Veruschka
Queimada
Giù la Testa
Le due stagioni della vita
Il sorriso del grande tentatore
Quattro mosche di velluto grigio
Metti, una sera a cena
Il Grande Silenzio
L'assoluto Naturale
Senza sapere niente di lei
Vergogna Schifosi
Le Casse
Il diavolo nel cervello
Il Gatto a Nove Code
La Cosa Buffa
Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio?
Teorema
Per un pugno di samba (Collab w/ Chico Buarque)

heh and your 20 and my 20 have zero overlap!

btw i see that Two Mules for Sister Sara is getting its first-ever legit CD release next week from LaLaLand. It is kind of my all time favorite morricone so fyi

Gratified by how much in-depth coverage his death is getting on UK TV, just watching Jean-Michel Jarre getting interviewed about him on the BBC right now - still looking 20 years younger than his age.

https://youtu.be/efdswXXjnBA

Wow I'd never seen his music performed. Whole new appreciation for his genius.

re Mina singing "Se Telefonando" linked upthread - I always loved that recording, she gets to the chorus in 53 seconds and the whole rest of the song is chorus, ever-shifting, ever-building until the song fades out at 2:58

heh and your 20 and my 20 have zero overlap!

Hahah that is outrageous. Chi L'ha Vista Morire was literally the last one to miss the cut for my list, so that would have been one we had in common

re Mina singing "Se Telefonando" linked upthread - I always loved that recording, she gets to the chorus in 53 seconds and the whole rest of the song is chorus, ever-shifting, ever-building until the song fades out at 2:58

Wait, there is also a French version by Françoise Hardy that’s pretty nice.

From Rolling Reissues---haven't listened to this yet:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0749207697_10.jpg

Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
by Ennio Morricone
For the first time on LP, Maestro Morricone's full score for "Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo". A 1969 giallo-noir, full of cruel twists, directed by Salvatore Samperi, .

This almost unknown soundtrack wasn't released at the time and the original master tapes were carefully archived in the vault of legendary C.A.M. label.

Conducted by Bruno Nicolai and featuring voices by Edda Dell'Orso.The maestro delivers one his best scores from the late 60's. A psych-baroque journey with typical beat arrangements, crazy organs solos, wah-wah guitars and tense harpsichord phrases.

Including the previously unreleased "Shake introspettivo".

REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
LIMITED EDITION
credits
released May 22, 2020

Music composed and orchestrated by Ennio Morricone.
Conducted by Bruno Nicolai.
Solo voices : Edda Dell'Orso.
* Previously unreleased.

This reissue : 2020 Transversales Disques.
Executive production by Sébastien Rosat & Jonathan Fitoussi.
Edited by Sébastien Rosat & Romain Turzi.
Mastering : Benjamin Joubert at Biduloscope.
Graphic design : Jean-Philippe Talaga.
(p) & (c) 1969 Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. Srl, una società del Gruppo Sugar
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/uccidete-il-vitello-grasso-e-arrostitelo

― dow, Monday, June 22, 2020 3:19 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Previous years' reissues on this label: more Morricone, also Luc Ferrari, François Bayle, others:
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/

― dow, Monday, June 22, 2020

Which film is streaming on Criterion until the end of the month

Oh no, wrong film, sorry

I was thinking of Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto.

Wait, there is also a French version by Françoise Hardy that’s pretty nice.

Ennio Morricone didn’t just have an impact in the Western world. He had a huge impact on Bollywood. India’s closest equivalent to Morricone was the late genius RD Burman. Listen to the immortal theme music for “Sholay” (1975). A clear Morricone connection. https://t.co/ve44z4GsEA

— Geeta Dayal (@geetadayal) July 6, 2020

lol, like 250 other EM-scored films, i'd rather listen to than watch Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It.

"giallo-noir" seals the deal

@dow, HELL yeah that's the good stuff right there. Hopefully there are more forgotten soundtracks from that era languishing in that and/or other vaults...

(xxp) Geeta!

I've almost certainly listened to more hours of his music than any other music in history

Me too, and by a very wide margin. I sometimes think I could quite happily listen to nothing but Morricone for the rest of my life. You need two lifetimes for his work.

I'm not big on lists on rankings but several of J Sam's picks are among my faborites (VS, Giu La Testa, Che Faccio?, L' Assoluto Naturale, that Buarque collab etc). The one I listen to most is prob this Japanese comp called Eviva! Morricone which collects a bunch of that stuff. I've played it a couple times lately as it's one of my periennial summer records. He's never far away.

When I heard the news this song, which was criminally and inexplicably omitted from the Austin Powers soundtrack, was the first thing I went for (but Sonny is a much better choice).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKogC5QpaKR8qxJMGUd_kvSsiL9Lva2vxSDfshgp6z6LcEhpvdmyiDmMOd4yp-Ix7yDElZewRj8Uum7mpxprZ0D_oeA-4Q&feature=emb_logo&v=EccgBS2tO5E&time_continue=41

the diabolik soundtrack, what a tragedy! it's brilliant, but the tapes of morricone's music were destroyed... only copies are taken from the audio print of the film itself. i still used to have "driving decoys" as my ringtone.

i seriously am gonna have to check out the ones from j. sam's list that i don't know, because the ones i do know kill

i'd also say, uh... un tranquillo posto di campagna is good. the first track to "controfase". "altri, dopo di noi" from "la tenda rossa", the full 22 minute version. idk, he's got too much for me to have any idea of most of his stuff

exactly, it's almost bottomless, even more so than e.g. the Sun Ra catalog

Xp Yeah, it's heartbreaking but the many hours I've searched in vain for a better copy of danger: diabolik would have been better spent listening to the bootleg. There's a 2014 rerecording but I prefer the audio rips from the movie. I'm very happy with whatever it is, at this point.

There's been a gaping Kate-shaped hole on ILM lately. You might like Piccioni's Il Dio Sotto la pelle if you don't already know it. Which you probably do. The vibe is somewherre between Veruschka and Pink Floyd.

ooh, i didn't know about this re-recording. ok, yeah, it doesn't quite have the elan of the soundtrack recordings, but speaking as someone who's been trying for years to get someone to cover "seabirds" in the rough style of the "more" soundtrack i am very on-board with this. i will check out the piccioni as well, thanks :)

these days i mostly make long rambling posts to the blog, which has moved to www . alanauch . org /wtob/ (hoping that will keep the crawlers from finding it). much love to y'all tho :)

One peak-era soundtrack that could use some more attention is 1972's Le Due Stagioni Della Vita, mainly for the 18-minute-long title suite of variations on this ultra-hypnotic, cyclical waltzy theme--the kind of chord progression and melody that gives the illusion of falling and falling (like Aguas de Março), seeming to never end, propelled forward on inexhaustible inertia while Edda Dell'Orso and some choirs fly in and out of the ever-changing sonic millieu... It's a trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4lUF12pIk0

Yes I love that album

Today I learned he and Leone were childhood classmates!

Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone pose together in the primary school year book, 1937 pic.twitter.com/8ArJOrpzns

— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) July 6, 2020

Yeah, it's a weird one that, I can't remember if they were actually friends though.

tribute airing/streaming in 30 minutes

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PE

Nice tribute.

http://www.legaseriea.it/en/press/news/info/lega-serie-a-pays-tribute-to-ennio-morricone

Nice gesture but why go with a ballad when Morricone wrote so many tracks ideal for getting people pumped? Play "Navajo Joe" imo.

Now that would be something. Doesn't take much to pump up Italian football fans though - if there were any fans there, which there aren't.

Play "Navajo Joe" imo.

AHHHHH-AH-AHHH-AH-AHHHHH-AH-AHHH-AH-AHHHHHHHH...
EEEEEE-EH-EEEE-EH-EEEEEE-EH-EEEE-EH-EEEEEEEEE...
*insanely heavy twang plod*

i have to amend my POXX btw

La Tenda Rossa/The Red Tent is an inconceivable omission (the side B suite my dear lord)

I guess bump off White Dog

John Zorn's tribute to The Maestro, a public post: https://www.facebook.com/TzadikLabel/posts/3433097923389983

Come for the king, don't miss. And ask shorter questions:

I interpreted that exchange as Fagen taking the piss out of himself. He even included it in his book.

https://www.whosampled.com/news/2020/07/06/prolific-and-much-sampled-italian-composer-ennio-morricone-has-died-aged-91-ten-iconic-samples/#:~:text=Morricone's%20impact%20on%20popular%20culture,Lotus%2C%20Eminem%20and%20The%20Orb.

Huh:

In 2007, Italian author/scholar Leonardo Colombati invited Morricone to write the original foreword for Colombati's book Bruce Springsteen – Come un killer sotto il sole: Il grande romanzo americano (1972-2007) (republished internationally a decade later as Bruce Springsteen – Like a Killer in the Sun: Selected Lyrics, 1972-2017.)

Morricone jumped at the chance, writing:

In his songs, Springsteen creates a strong sense of pietas — of the pain and humanity inherent in the characters he recounts. He does this not only through his music, where he uses different timbres and sounds to endow characters with a unique personality, but also through his lyrics, which are where his real power lies…

Although they are very different, a certain part of my work and his shares a common basis in the simple chords we use to create structured and original melodies. The composer of instrumental music must redeem this simplicity with elaborate orchestration; the author-singer/storyteller can do so by using both voice and words, as long as the voice communicates an emotion and the words are true. I like Springsteen precisely because he places this need for Truth in the forefront. This is how he manages to elude passing fads and why his music runs no risk of being lost over the course of time.

http://backstreets.com/Assets/Images/2020/newsEMorricone1996CROP.jpg

Also, Springsteen used to begin "Badlands" by having Roy play "Jill's Theme" from "Once Upon a Time in the West."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF50vNJ1k3Y

Ah well, I'll try not to hold that against Ennio.

RIP Ennio Morricone.

Modern Cinema wouldn't be the same without you.

And - in what is perhaps my favourite bit of trivia - indie-dancefloor-powerhouse BLUE MONDAY wouldn't be the same, either... (@peterhook) pic.twitter.com/SJ2pIDRWq6

— Shipy McShipface (@OllieShip) July 6, 2020

Back in the 70s, in Creem, I think, Dave Marsh mentioned Broooce's cinematic, operatic, maybe (did he also say?)spaghetti western tendencies, and that seemed right, although arrgh, "Jungleland" etc--but usually pretty good (though I stopped listening in the 80s).

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7014-ennio-morricone-s-radical-romanticism

I like it

Italy has put Ennio Morricone on a new limited edition €5 coin!! #maestro pic.twitter.com/WIvQcaViIn

— C. Lavender (@clavendr) July 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jF0aK5b90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZXwJcc1u-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKPUuxaLRE

Stop posting sacco & vanzetti itt ffs

Can we use this s&d/rip thread as a raririties thread? Here he is in raymond scott mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bUUQXXHis

The visuals are also intense.

Interesting. Reminds me of the "American Magus" piece by John Zorn from "Songs from the Hermetic Theater". Not surprised that Zorn would've been familiar with this.

xp That's awesome, probably the synthiest thing I've heard from him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0381tAAxWfA

Dipping into the bottomless well this morning I discovered L'Immoralità (1978), which was reissued on CAM earlier this year. Variations on a beautiful melancholy chord sequence that reminds me of Paddy McAloon's I Trawl the Megahertz

L’Ummanoide is the synthiest thing I know by him

Obviously I have not heard everything, and probably couldn't if I tried, and certainly could not have remembered, but I honestly thing "The Untouchable" is one of his most memorable scores.

lol, "Untouchables." Anyway, anyone know anything about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjJ4KCcIjsw

No but funny timing for the bump I’ve been all morricone for the last few days

Just got delivery of 4 CDs (99 pence each!) of Morricone soundtracks.

Metti, Una Sera a Cena (1968) (which I've heard before and is very good in a loungey/easy listening vein.)
Giordano Bruno (1973) (one of his soundtracks for period dramas, so I imagine this will be him at his stateliest.)
Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione? (1972) (comedy western, which is fine as long the comedy isn't overdone.)
La Vita A Volte È Molto Dura Vero Provvidenza? (1972) (another comedy western, like the previous soundtrack there's not a lot of variety in track titles which makes me think there will be a LOT of variations on a theme - but it only cost 99p, so what the hell.)

I still dream of a Complete Morricone box set, can't see it ever happening though

Jesus, you'd need an articulated lorry to deliver that.

Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione? (1972) (comedy western, which is fine as long the comedy isn't overdone.)