― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 10 April 2004 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 10 April 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
*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.
― jazz odysseus, Saturday, 10 April 2004 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
kaija saariaho wd struggle to compose something this good!!!
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― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
helloIam 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.
with best rigard
hamid
― hamid ahsani, Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Sunday, 25 January 2009 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
this dude is basically the gnarliest
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Sunday, 25 January 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1389539.php/Report_Morricone_to_make_soundtrack_for_Iranian_Khomeini_film
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 26 January 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― amateurist, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:41 (fourteen years ago) link
seriously how often do film composers have the cojones to be so audaciously inventive?
― amateurist, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Orca The Killer Whale!!!
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― the swagona monologues (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Rhino comp is out of print and Rhino is gutting staff #FML
― the swagona monologues (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I seriously think The Good, The Bad and The Ugly may be the best movie theme ever.
― chap, Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Although embarrassingly I've never seen the actual film.
movie is great -- perfect combo of music/imagery/mood
― tylerw, Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Ludo, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 November 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Monday, 21 November 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 21 November 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
agreed
the Improvisationen record is just breathtaking, so much detail packed into such quiet passages
― sleeve, Monday, 21 November 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
RIP the mighty Alessandro Alessandroni.
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Very sad. The Cantori Moderni had a lot of jams.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:37 (seven years ago) link
RIP ;_;
― Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
lol missed all this
https://variety.com/2018/film/news/playboy-germany-backtrack-ennio-morricone-quentin-tarantino-1203027132/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
Enniotm
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
before or now?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Before obv.
― ROCK MUSIC (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
that he did let slip of what he really thought of QT off the record will be what I choose to remember!
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
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/
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Seems like his reaction has drawn more attention to it than would have otherwise been the case.
― mirostones, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
RIP
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-people-morricone/italian-composer-ennio-morricone-dies-report-idUKKBN2470OM
― octobeard, Monday, 6 July 2020 07:35 (three years ago) link
This is officially the worst fucking year of all-time. RIP :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfjYLNIjugk
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 6 July 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 July 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
RIP, so many hours listened to and it just hasn't felt like enough.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
It's almost a full time job listening to Morricone!
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
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..
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 July 2020 12:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Monday, 6 July 2020 12:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nqRwX5ixc
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 July 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
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
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Monday, 6 July 2020 13:29 (three years ago) link
The Jimmy Saville theme of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
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
― J. Sam, Monday, 6 July 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
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).
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 6 July 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
An absolute giant.
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 July 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 July 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jF0aK5b90
― xzanfar, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZXwJcc1u-I
― xzanfar, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKPUuxaLRE
― xzanfar, Monday, 19 July 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
Stop posting sacco & vanzetti itt ffs
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
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.
― Marcos Marcos-Valle (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
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
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
L’Ummanoide is the synthiest thing I know by him
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
lol, "Untouchables." Anyway, anyone know anything about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjJ4KCcIjsw
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
No but funny timing for the bump I’ve been all morricone for the last few days
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 30 January 2022 07:03 (two years ago) link
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.)
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 14:44 (one month ago) link
I still dream of a Complete Morricone box set, can't see it ever happening though
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:09 (one month ago) link
Jesus, you'd need an articulated lorry to deliver that.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 15:14 (one month ago) link
Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione? (1972) (comedy western, which is fine as long the comedy isn't overdone.)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link