morricone

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