morricone

*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!!!

[/crank]

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.

with best rigard

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

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.)