morricone

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

RIP, OPXX

The Thing
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Death Rides a Horse
Oceano
A Fistful of Dollars
Copkiller
Ad Ogni Costo
Il Prato
My Name Is Nobody
Slalom
Nostromo
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
I Magi Randagi
Chi L'Ha Vista Morire
Red Sonja
Once Upon a Time in the West
White Dog
'Tis Pity She's A Whore
Sahara

The Crime And Dissonance 2xCD on Ipecac is a pretty essential overview of the weirder stuff

Available on Bandcamp

a great comp but for any first time dabblers just be aware this is a very narrow cross-section of the morricone cosmos

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

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

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

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

He must have missed Satyajit Ray satelliting in from his sickbed.

xpost yeah the songs-only Canto Morricone 4CD box (bear family) is well worth pirating

Morricone was a genius, but not enough of one to get me to listen to Italian pop.

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)