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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's a weird one that, I can't remember if they were actually friends though.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
tribute airing/streaming in 30 minutes
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/PE
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
Nice tribute.
http://www.legaseriea.it/en/press/news/info/lega-serie-a-pays-tribute-to-ennio-morricone
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
Nice gesture but why go with a ballad when Morricone wrote so many tracks ideal for getting people pumped? Play "Navajo Joe" imo.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
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*
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
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
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
John Zorn's tribute to The Maestro, a public post: https://www.facebook.com/TzadikLabel/posts/3433097923389983
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
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.
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
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 July 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Ah well, I'll try not to hold that against Ennio.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
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
― Vernon Locke, Thursday, 9 July 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
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).
― dow, Friday, 10 July 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7014-ennio-morricone-s-radical-romanticism
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 July 2021 20:43 (two 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