Browse by Artist: MORRICONE, ENNIO

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Morricone In The Brain
Label:	BELLA CASA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CASA 002CD

"This album will take you take you on a profoundly psychedelic trip through one of the most fertile imaginations in 20th century music. It is a mind-bending seventy minutes with the maestro -- Ennio Morricone. Ennio Morricone was the biggest living man in film music, and this album is when he was in the beat pop acid '60s and '70s at the height of his creative powers when his abilities as a composer went far beyond even what the best international groups in each genre were capable of. The majority of the music featured on this incredible compilation is from obscure European art movies and (long deleted) is being released in digital format for the first time. Morricone In the Brain is a testament to Morricone's incredible artistry and also his versatility. An album at which to marvel it will surely be enthusiastically received critically and will be essential to any student of the maestro or the genres of psychedelia or film."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Morricone 2000
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 105CD

"Great compilation with 16 tracks culled from eight different original soundtracks from the past. Track listing and liner notes by Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls." "This collection is a view from the top of the food chain; 16 boxcars of luminosity from an archival train that could span this earth. Culled from 8 original soundtracks in the Beat Records catalog, some of these cuts are impossible to describe. What kind of music is 'Una Corsa Disperata'...high drama orchestral psychedelia? How about 'Veni Sancte Spiritus'...an acid rock opera in Vatican City? And how could the sweet-syrup majesty of the theme to 'Il Grande Silenzio' possibly accompany a murderous Klaus Kinski on the screen during Sergio Corbucci's epic spaghetti western, the only one filmed in three feet of snow?" -- Alan Bishop.

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Revolver
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 112CD

"Long-awaited original soundtrack recording for this 1972 obscure Italian crime story (US title: Blood In The Streets) starring Oliver Reed. Really fine dramatic score by the Maestro." From Roberto Zamori's liner notes: "Morricone reaffirms here his concept that film music can (or rather, must) claim its own independence regarding style, contents and form. The elegance of the orchestration, made all the more evident by the resolute orchestra direction of the talented, late Nicolai, makes this core one of the more interesting works of the Roman composer in the series of detective stories and thrillers."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 119CD

"This, the only credited soundtrack appearance of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, makes you wish Morricone had used his free improv unit for that purpose more often. Gli Occhi Fredda Della Paura, or Cold Eyes of Fear, is an Italian slasher (giallo) from 1971. The score has Il Gruppo augmented by a rhythm section and a fuzz-wah guitarist (most likely Alessandro Alessandroni). The results sound like a creepy take on 70s Miles Davis, with driving jazz beats and psychedelic guitar jabs filtering in and out of the suspenseful textural mayhem provided by Il Gruppo: ashtrays in pianos, bowed cymbals, scraping metal, jittery horns, string drones, etc. Besides an odd one in the Morricone canon, Gli Occhi is also an unusual endeavor for Il Gruppo. The ensemble set out to avoid all musical conventions: '...no sounds bound to the tonal system, no rhythmic periodicity, no motives, and no repetition allowed...,' yet here they break Franco Evangelisti's rules and find themselves locked in some serious grooves. This Dagored issue is the definitive version with great sound and seven previously unreleased ques on both vinyl and CD. I don't blame anyone for being on the fence or only occasionally dipping their toes in the world of Morricone, that world is a confounding and oft disappointing one -- the man scored nearly 400 films and finding the nuggets is tough. However, this is the one that all you adventurous/out-music gluttons needs to be able pull off the shelve when the avant-garde police knock on your door. Yep, this is THE ONE." -- Frank van den Elzen.

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	RED 130LP

"The original soundtrack recording for this 1966 Italian spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone... the classic theme is Morricone's most famous composition and topped the charts in the US and Europe covered by Hugo Montenegro... moments of intense drama and incredible beauty that are rarely heard in motion picture underscores... there's a traditional element with a brassy feel to it, with thundering percussions, various arrangements of voices, a lot of bells, clanging acoustic and electric 'surfing' guitars, and even a prepared piano... contains 10 previously unreleased outtakes... digitally remastered... new artwork... gatefold sleeve... 180 gram HQ vinyl... "

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST Indagine Su Di Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	RED 138LP

"The original soundtrack recording for this 1970 Italian thriller by Elio Petri known in the US as Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion. Beautiful stuff from Morricone with a haunting set of themes played on vibes, plucked strings and some very odd-sounding instruments. This score has the usual dreamy and minimally melodic style that made Morricone's fame. Featuring Edda Dell'Orso. New artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST Il Serpente
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 142CD

"The original soundtrack recording for this 1972 Italian/French spy thriller directed by Henri Verneuil. The movie (known in the US as Night Flight From Moscow and starring Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde and Philippe Noiret) has one of Morricone's best scores. If you are familiar with his Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna soundtrack, you are getting an even better idea 'cause this is very much like that one. Along with the best known track 'Tema Per Una Donna Sola' (a very nice romantic theme), 'Nadine' (a brilliant pop instrumental), and 'Canzone Lontana' (featuring Edda Dell'Orso) the score contains lots of weird and scary instrumental sounds for a dark and noisy, totally atonal Morricone's masterpiece. Contains 16 previously unreleased tracks. New artwork."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST Barbablu
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	RED 144LP

Vinyl LP version. Gatefold 180 gram. "Morricone's original soundtrack to the 1972 cult classic Barbabl�, starring (two-time husband of Elizabeth Taylor) Richard Burton. Based on the traditional fairy tale 'Blue Beard', this version of the film is set in Weimar Germany and the uxoricidal 'Barbabl�' (Richard Burton) is the nazi Baron Von Sepper. The female cast includes Virna Lisi, Raquel Welch (Miss Universe), and Karin Schubert (future porn-star!). Directed by Edward Dmytryk and Luciano Sacripanti. Morricone's soundtrack perfectly captures the dramatic and erratic moods of this erotic psycho-thriller. Trademark high quality Dagored artwork. CD version also includes 11 bonus tracks."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST Che C'Entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione?
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 145CD

"Original Morricone soundtrack for this classic 1972 Italian 'tortilla-western' directed by spaghetti western king, Sergio Corbucci (perhaps best known for his classic Django [1966] and Navajo Joe, [1967], starring Burt Reynolds. Although the spaghetti western genre was invented by men like Corbucci and Sergio Leone, it was Ennio Morricone who gave the genre its distinctive flavor. Unlike many spaghetti westerns, Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione? was intended as a comedy, evident by the presence of two of Italy's most famous comic actors: Vittorio Gassman and Paolo Villaggio. The light-hearted subject matter gave Morricone the opportunity to explore less familiar terrain -- the result being a surprisingly experimental blend that makes the soundtrack an essential Morricone recording. Only 3 of the 17 tracks have ever been previously released."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	OST I Figli Ci Chiedono Perche
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 146CD

"Morricone's original soundtrack for the 1972 Italian drama by Nino Zanchin and starring Umberto Orsini, Susanna Melandri and Rosemarie Dexter. Morricone's melancholy soundscapes masterfully capture the tragic tale of the forbidden friendship between a young Israeli girl and Palestinian boy during a war between Israel and Palestine -- unfortunately still a timely tale. Ethereal vocals by the legendary Edda Dell'orso. Includes 7 bonus tracks."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Menage All'Italiana
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 166CD

"A spritely soundtrack to this 1965 sex comedy starring Alfredo (Ugo Tognazzi) as a travelling salesman who enjoys his job because he can continue his many amorous adventures. Soon he is overcome with the consequences of his actions and feels the pressure of too many paramours. Alfredo chooses a way out by faking his death. He watches in anonymity as his wife and his many lovers gather together for his funeral in this engaging comedy of manners."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Svegliati e Uccidi
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 167CD

"Haunting soundtrack to this 1966 crime thriller starring dashing Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann as Luciano Luthring, a small-time hood who rises quickly to the ranks of ruthless professional criminal, only to be betrayed by his beautiful moll (Lisa Gastoni). This fact-based crime thriller, directed by veteran Carlo Lizzani, also contains a fine supporting performance by Gian Maria Volonte as the cunning inspector who psychologically manipulates Gastoni into turning on her lover by playing on her guilty conscience."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Corleone OST
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 172CD

"1977 movie directed by Pasquale Squitieri and set in Corleone, Sicily during the 1950s, two childhood friends, Michele Labruzzo and Vito Gargano, have chosen opposite roads in life. Michele is now a leader of the farmers' movement and its quest to free the land from the iron fist of the nobility and the mafia (represented by Baron Miceli and local mafia boss Don Giusto Provenzano), while Vito is the trusted 'yes-man' of Don Provenzano, and eventually vows to kill Michele in exchange for control over the Baron's lands. While this may not be one of Morricone's better-known soundtracks, it is nonetheless top-drawer Morricone who does not waste a note in turning this film into an epic tale of good vs. evil. By now already more than a decade into his career, the Maestro had already written dozens of soundtracks and established himself as one of the best-known and most talented film composers in the world, a title he maintains to this day."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	I Crudeli OST
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 176CD

"Morricone is at his best here in this 1967 spaghetti western (aka The Hellbenders), directed by Sergio Corbucci, the lesser-known father of the spaghetti western, and director of the genre-defining Django, released later that same year. Here some ex-Confederate soldiers, with a dream to see the South rise again, steal a million dollars from the Union army and hide it in a coffin to make it past the Union patrols. Will they succeed in getting the money back to their Confederate stronghold or will a femme fatale foil their plans?"

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Trio Infernale OST
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 177CD

"This French production, directed by Francis Girod, and originally released in 1974 (in the USA and UK with the title The Infernal Trio) is set in post-WWI France. A successful attorney and war hero, along with two of his lovers, (two German sisters) Philomene and Catherine, defraud life insurance companies by signing policies for dying people. Given their success, they become bolder and bolder and even resort to the murder of a rich pawnbroker Noemie and her lover, Chambon. They get rid of the bodies by melting them down with sulfuric acid. Their final heist, however, has a fatal ending for Catherine, but Philomene and George are now filthy rich after cashing in five life insurance policies on Catherine's death."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	L'Alibi OST
Label:	DAGORED (ITALY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	RED 178CD

"Morricone works his magic again in this 1969 Italian production directed by Luciano Lucignani, Vittorio Gassman, and Adolfo Celi. Vittorio, Adolfo and Luciano (this film is based loosely on the lives of the directors of the film) were great friends during their days at the Academy for Dramatic Arts, which they attended in the years just after the Second World War, but they lose touch soon after. Adolfo goes to Brazil where he becomes a very successful actor; Vittorio remains in Italy and he also becomes a stage and movie star; and Luciano becomes a director, playwright, film critic, scholar and ardent Communist. Adolfo, after many years away, begins to miss home and sends a telegram to Vittorio and Luciano to inform them of his return to Italy. During the trip, Adolfo thinks fondly of his school days and dreams of a happy reunion with his friends, but both Vittorio and Luciano have changed."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Psichedelico Jazzistico
Label:	EL RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ACMEM 035CD

2004 release. "With his peerless versatility and productivity, Ennio Morricone is one of the most famous and influential composers of the 20th century. Drawing from an extraordinary range of musical styles, his 500 film scores have accompanied every conceivable movie genre. Atonal and melodic, playful and intense, futuristic and camp, Psichedelico Jazzistico concentrates on the acid invention of the composer's most magical and ambitious period in the late '60s and early '70s. This album represents a beautiful and surrealistic snapshot of an artist at the height of his powers. Morricone's innovative soundscapes for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns established his reputation and he would soon become one of the composers most coveted and sought-after by film makers from all over the world. He created an extremely original style based on wordless vocals, unorthodox instrumental combinations, aggressive rhythms and quasi-experimental sounds, mixing the most diverse musical languages, from jazz to classical music, and rock to electronic music. This breathtaking eclecticism is the feature of Morricone's elegant soundtracks for the aerobatic Forza G and the artily erotic Metti Una Sera A Cena (One Evening At Dinner) and his evocative scores for Dario Argento's stylized thrillers, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Four Flies On Grey Velvet."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Morricone Kill: Spaghetti Western Music From The Maestro
Label:	EL RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ACMEM 038CD

2005 release. "Morricone's theme for The Good The Bad & The Ugly is arguably the most famous piece of music ever recorded for film. Director and composer are inseparable; the coordination of action and music such as to prompt some scholars to compare Leone's films to opera; images and sounds that are rich, solemn and often startling. On Morricone Kill, the achingly beautiful melodies for Leone's A Fistful Of Dynamite establish the magical Morricone atmosphere; the programme comprising three beautiful cuts from this film, along with selections from lesser known Westerns, all of which are charged with extraordinary music. Sergio Sollima's Resta Dei Conti (The Big Gundown) is generally considered to be the finest Spaghetti Wstern not directed by Leone and stars the splendid Lee Van Cleef; Van Cleef emerging from retirement to become (along with Clint Eastwood) the leading name of the genre and one of the ten biggest box office draws in Europe. Joseph Cotton stars in Sergio Corbucci's I Crudeli. Franco Nero and Jack Palance in both Il Mercenario and Vamos a Matar Companeros,and the immense Orson Welles is Clonel Cooscorro, the chief of police in Tepepa (Blood and Guns). James Coburn and Rod Steiger combine famously in A Fistful Of Dynamite, and Henry Fonda, who years earlier had starred in the prodigious Once Upon a Time in the West, returns to the genre for My Name Is Nobody. Sergio Leone's biographer Prof. Christopher Frayling's quotation about the stereo effect of the Spaghetti Western perfectly captures the mood, 'one speaker is a fairy story, the other, brutal and nasty. A fabulous combination.' 'L'arena' from Il Mercenario also featured in part two of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Morricone High: The Trippier Side of the Morricone Genius
Label:	EL RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	ACMEM 039CD

2005 release. "Morricone High showcases the composer's work for Italian psychedelic and art movies of the late '60s & early '70s. Ennio Morricone's beautiful melodies are decorated by Edda Dell'Orso's spacious wordless vocals; Scusi, Facciamo L'Amore? (with the harmony singers I Cantori Moderni) (about the travails of a Neapolitan gigolo), Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene (sex and crime Italian style) Veruschka (model on a psychedelic trip) and La Donna Invisible (arty Mediterranean love triangle) are all sublime examples of the composer in his pomp. Eventually, the layers of sensuality give way to the atonal but no less refined, Notte E Bambole from the weird, dreamlike The Short Night Of The Glass Dolls (about catalepsy in art deco Prague) and the equally intense '1970' for Dario Argento's Giallo Il Gatto A Nove Code starring Karl Malden as a blind writer of crossword puzzles who stumbles on a murderous plot."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Happening
Label:	EL RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ACMEM 058CD

"This album is the fifth of our very successful El's themed Ennio Morricone compilations. Morricone Happening is a psychedelic montage with the centrepiece being the music from three important soundtracks from the maestro's oeuvre; The Serpent (Yul Brynner, Dirk Bogarde, Henry Fonda), Bluebeard (Richard Burton) and Burn! (Marlon Brando's best screen performance). With this album we reach the point where Mojo and Q should be writing about Ennio Morricone as the master of psychedelia. This music is far ahead of it's time....if you want a glimpse of what pop might be in the future."

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Once Upon A Time
Label:	SILVA AMERICA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	SIL 1165

Subtitled: The Essential Film Music Collection. "Morricone's music stood out on those early Western movies as something quite new and original. With its unusual instruments and sound combinations it seems to fill in for the action when the characters are in close-up, eyeing each other and waiting for the first move. Then it punctuates the scene like a punch-line when the action is all over in a flash. The composer seemed to have the right musical instincts to emphasize the screen portrayal of legendary, larger than life characters." 2CD set covering the best of his 500 film scores. Recorded and mastered in HCCD and Dolby surround sound.

Artist:	MORRICONE, ENNIO
Title:	Il Prefetto di Ferro/Il Mostro
Label:	SPALAX (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	SPA 14985

2 original soundtracks on 1 CD, both from 1977. "This re-issue supplies a more complete portrait of Morricone. Today's technology enables the listener to appreciate with greater clarity the Mediterranean sounds of Pasquale Squitieri's Il Prefetto... which are sometimes warm and at others harsh but are sounds which unmistakably remind the listener that the composer draws from an intimate knowledge of the folk music of the region."-- Claudio Fuiano.

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