Posted in News on Oct 10th, 2008
The British/Italian label Hillside has released two much anticipated scores; Stelvio Cipriani’s La Lunga Notte Dei Disertori and Poitevin’s Killer Cailbro 32.
It is amazing to me that so many excellent scores from Italian movies keep being unearthed in various recording company vaults. LA LUNGA NOTTE DEI DISERTORI comes originally from the vast CAM archive, and [...]
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Posted in News on Sep 30th, 2008
In October Cinevox will be releasing new versions of classic scores by two of Italy’s most renowned artists, Goblin and Ennio Morricone.
Goblin’s classic 1979 score for Buio Omega gets the special treatment with a deluxe edition comprised of 24 tracks including about 12 minutes of unheard music. This version is unique from the previous 1997 [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 21st, 2008
The German label Crippled Dick Hot Wax has always been close to my heart for releasing such great soundtrack compilations as Vampyros Lesbos, Beretta 70, and Schoolgirl Report. And keeping in that tradition, they’re releasing a great compilation of music from the Bruce LaBruce movie “Otto.”
If you don’t know who Labruce is, he’s a Toronto based [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 17th, 2008
This is a great collection of cues and library tracks from De Wolfe music in the U.K. These cues are just some of the music that De Wolfe licensed to the Shaw Brothers for use in their over the top and exciting Martial arts movies. The collection boasts 43 tracks, some being literally 5 second [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 17th, 2008
A good Christmas present for the Italian soundtrack fan in your life just might be the limited edition MGM Soundtrack Treasury box set Film Score Monthly is releasing this month. The 12 CD set includes 20 scores from the United Artists Film Library, including rare Ennio Morricone and Riz Ortolani material. Some of this material [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 25th, 2008
Italy’s Beat Records are planning on releasing two unreleased poliziotteschi, slated for release in September.
The first is Gian Franco Plenizio and Enrico Pieranunzi’s great soundtrack for Romolo Guerrieri and Fernando Di Leo’s 1976 cop thriller Liberi Armati Pericolosi (aka Young, Violent and Dangerous). The title track was recently issued for the first time on the [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 4th, 2008
In what seems like news from a completely different dimension, a musical version of Dario Argento’s classic 1975 thriller Profondo Rosso (known to US fans as Deep Red) was recently performed in Italy. Although this isn’t exactly current news as the musical’s performance ceased in March, Cinevox recently released the soundtrack CD.
I found out the [...]
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Posted in News on Jun 30th, 2008
The German label Allscore, known for releasing the Mondo Morricone and Edgar Wallace film music compilations, is working on issuing a compilation of Gerhard Heinz tracks from three Jess Franco films.
Set to be included are tunes from Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie (1981), Linda (1981), and Bloody Moon (1981). Heinz was famous for his scores for [...]
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Posted in News on Jun 25th, 2008
Ennio Morricone fans are in for a treat as Cinevox is reissuing the maestro’s amazing score for the 1979 Guiliano Montaldo film Il Giocattolo (aka The Toy). For years the original masters were thought to have been destroyed or lost, but the tapes were found only a few months ago and amazingly were in pristine [...]
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