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
RIP
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
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
― sleeve, Monday, 6 July 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
what can you fucking say manprobably the most protean composer who ever livedfrom 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
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
RIP, OPXX
The ThingTwo Mules for Sister SaraExorcist II: The HereticDeath Rides a HorseOceanoA Fistful of DollarsCopkillerAd Ogni CostoIl PratoMy Name Is NobodySlalomNostromoInvestigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionI Magi RandagiChi L'Ha Vista MorireRed SonjaOnce Upon a Time in the WestWhite Dog'Tis Pity She's A WhoreSahara
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Available on Bandcamp
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
a great comp but for any first time dabblers just be aware this is a very narrow cross-section of the morricone cosmos
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
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
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
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
― \\\\\\\\0||||0//////// (Matt #2), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
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— 💜💜🇺🇸ƈօɛɖ ռǟӄɛɖ ƈɨռɛքɦɨʟɨǟ🇺🇸💜💜 (@NickPinkerton) July 6, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
He must have missed Satyajit Ray satelliting in from his sickbed.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
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 15:56 (three years ago) link
Morricone was a genius, but not enough of one to get me to listen to Italian pop.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
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
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
so many i've never heard, including that ^
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
― 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)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
Drove back home yesterday from Chiricahua Mountains and had to throw on a Morricone westerns playlist. Obv fit the scenery perfectly. RIP dude.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 July 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
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
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
xposts OPXX, sure why not?
MaddalenaLa Donna InvisibleVeruschkaQueimadaGiù la TestaLe due stagioni della vita Il sorriso del grande tentatoreQuattro mosche di velluto grigioMetti, una sera a cenaIl Grande SilenzioL'assoluto NaturaleSenza sapere niente di leiVergogna SchifosiLe CasseIl diavolo nel cervelloIl Gatto a Nove CodeLa Cosa BuffaAnche se volessi lavorare, che faccio?TeoremaPer un pugno di samba (Collab w/ Chico Buarque)
― J. Sam, Monday, 6 July 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
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
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Monday, 6 July 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/efdswXXjnBA
Wow I'd never seen his music performed. Whole new appreciation for his genius.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Monday, 6 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
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
― J. Sam, Monday, 6 July 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
Wait, there is also a French version by Françoise Hardy that’s pretty nice.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
From Rolling Reissues---haven't listened to this yet:
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0749207697_10.jpg
Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostiteloby Ennio MorriconeFor 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 TAPESLIMITED EDITIONcreditsreleased 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 Sugarhttps://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
― dow, Monday, 6 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Which film is streaming on Criterion until the end of the month
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Oh no, wrong film, sorry
I was thinking of Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 6 July 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 July 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
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
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
@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...
― J. Sam, Monday, 6 July 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
(xxp) Geeta!
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
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
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 July 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link