Work From Home With Ennio Morricone

The Big Heat is the debut solo album by former Wall of Voodoo vocalist Stan Ridgway, released in 1986 by I.R.S. Records. Named after the 1953 film noir of the same name, the original release consisted of nine songs, including the No. 4 UK hit "Camouflage". In 1986, the album reached No. 131 on the Billboard 200.

BBC Four's celebration of film music begins with Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, a three-part documentary presented by writer, composer and film music aficionado Neil Brand. Neil tells his alternative history of cinema, putting the soundtrack centre stage. The series features some of the biggest directors of past and present, including Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, alongside film scores of cult and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, Inception, Hitchcock's Psycho, and Gladiator.

From longtime Chicago blues sidemen comes a session of mostly instrumental Americana that runs the gamut from Blues and R&B, to Soul Jazz, Western and Surf music! Guitarist John Edelmann has performed and recorded with a host of blues and rock legends, but is best known for his critically acclaimed work with Chicago Blues shouter Little Al Thomas. Hammond B3 player Rob Waters, a long time member of the Lonnie Brooks Blues Band, also boasts a who's who type resume. Bassist Mike Scharf and drummer Marty Binder are first call rhythm section members whose credits include Albert Collins and Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials. Special guests on the session are Denver area Soul and Blues singer extraordinaire Rex Peoples and saxophone master Steve Eisen. From the Booker T and the MG's meets Ennio Morricone of "Shootout at Castle Rock," to the Blue Note tinged "Rowdy Doody" and the surf of "Samurai," together these stalwart musicians come together on an eclectic mix of roots music played with a whole lotta soul.

In the early 1970s, the great Italian poet, philosopher, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini brought to the screen a trio of masterpieces of medieval literature—Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and The Thousand and One Nights (often known as The Arabian Nights)—and in doing so created his most uninhibited and extravagant work. In this brazen and bawdy triptych, the director set out to challenge modern consumer culture and celebrate the uncorrupted human body, while commenting on contemporary sexual and religious mores and hypocrisies. Filled with scatological humor and a rough-hewn sensuality that leave all modern standards of decency behind, these are carnal, provocative, and wildly entertaining films, all extraordinarily designed by Dante Ferretti and featuring evocative music by Ennio Morricone.