Micalizzi

In collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, a remastered and expanded soundtrack release from Quartet Records of Franco Micalizzi's score to the 1979 sci-fi-horror film "STRIDULUM" (aka "THE VISITOR") directed by Giulio Paradisi (aka Michael J. Paradise).
The soundtrack album was released by RCA in 1979 and was reissued on CD by Digitmovies in 2011 with a good amount of previously unreleased tracks. For this new and remastered edition, Quartet Records has located the original master tapes that contain not only more material and unreleased film versions but also three versions of the song “Sadness Theme” (performed by a studio singer in New York and composed by Micalizzi) that was originally written for the main titles but ultimately not used. This Quartet Records release was produced under the supervision of composer Franco Micalizzi.

Giulio Paradisi, as Michael J. Paradise, directed the 1979 film called Stridulum (The Visitor.) This soundtrack with eight bonus tracks was done by Franco Micalizzi and was remastered in 2011 by Digitmovies.

In collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, a remastered and expanded soundtrack release from Quartet Records of Franco Micalizzi's score to the 1979 sci-fi-horror film "STRIDULUM" (aka "THE VISITOR") directed by Giulio Paradisi (aka Michael J. Paradise).
The soundtrack album was released by RCA in 1979 and was reissued on CD by Digitmovies in 2011 with a good amount of previously unreleased tracks. For this new and remastered edition, Quartet Records has located the original master tapes that contain not only more material and unreleased film versions but also three versions of the song “Sadness Theme” (performed by a studio singer in New York and composed by Micalizzi) that was originally written for the main titles but ultimately not used. This Quartet Records release was produced under the supervision of composer Franco Micalizzi.

In collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, a remastered and expanded soundtrack release from Quartet Records of Franco Micalizzi's score to the 1979 sci-fi-horror film "STRIDULUM" (aka "THE VISITOR") directed by Giulio Paradisi (aka Michael J. Paradise).
The soundtrack album was released by RCA in 1979 and was reissued on CD by Digitmovies in 2011 with a good amount of previously unreleased tracks. For this new and remastered edition, Quartet Records has located the original master tapes that contain not only more material and unreleased film versions but also three versions of the song “Sadness Theme” (performed by a studio singer in New York and composed by Micalizzi) that was originally written for the main titles but ultimately not used. This Quartet Records release was produced under the supervision of composer Franco Micalizzi.

In collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, a remastered and expanded soundtrack release from Quartet Records of Franco Micalizzi's score to the 1979 sci-fi-horror film "STRIDULUM" (aka "THE VISITOR") directed by Giulio Paradisi (aka Michael J. Paradise).
The soundtrack album was released by RCA in 1979 and was reissued on CD by Digitmovies in 2011 with a good amount of previously unreleased tracks. For this new and remastered edition, Quartet Records has located the original master tapes that contain not only more material and unreleased film versions but also three versions of the song “Sadness Theme” (performed by a studio singer in New York and composed by Micalizzi) that was originally written for the main titles but ultimately not used. This Quartet Records release was produced under the supervision of composer Franco Micalizzi.

Dusty Fingers is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as breakbeats collected by Bronx DJ Danny Dann the Beat Mann. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable DJs to easily transition into them. These are also attractive to producers, who loop or rearrange them to create new compositions. Following in the tradition of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats series, the Dusty Fingers records contain an eclectic range of musical styles: mainly funk and jazz, but also including soul, rock, disco, and pop. Many of the songs in the Dusty Fingers series have been sampled into new musical compositions, mainly by hip hop producers. Popular songs that sample songs from the Dusty Fingers series include "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem, "Find Your Wealth" by Nas, "Rowdy Rowdy" by 50 Cent, "Show Me What You Got" by Jay-Z, "Daydreamin'" by Lupe Fiasco, and "Dr. Carter" by Lil' Wayne.

Avere qualche anno dietro le spalle comporta aver vissuto vite diverse, in qualche modo essere state persone diverse. Per un musicista è anche possibile, come nel mio caso, aver attraversato periodi musicali stilisticamente molto differenti tra loro. Questo lavoro discografico è per me un piccolo tuffo nel passato. Edoardo Nordio ideatore, compositore dei brani originali e leader di questo progetto, in possesso evidentemente di un'ottima memoria, mi ha voluto coinvolgere per avermi ascoltato suonare nei primissimi anni 80 una musica ispirata a un particolare periodo della "Fusion", quello che tra gli anni 70 e 80 è stato portato avanti da gruppi e musicisti come Jeff Lorber, Dave Sanborn, The Crusaders, Spyro Gyra, Grover Washington Jr, una musica sofisticata e semplice al tempo stesso, solare e ricca di Groove.

PAURA explores the horror repertoire from the precious CAM Sugar archives taking us on a hypnotic journey into the labyrinths of fear, through the different variations that Italian horror took on from the esoteric and supernatural to the slasher films of the early 1970s; to reinterpretations of Romantic literature and gothic fiction to the splatter films of the ‘80s; and from witchcraft to metropolitan horror. This is not a real “best of” but an eclectic menu full of mysterious voices, childlike lullabies, sweet melodies, obsessive music boxes, obstinate harpsichords, crazy distortions and threatening synthesizers, conceived as a succession of sequences, as if a film edit. The new collection includes some of the most creative music ever written and strives to do justice not only to some of the best known composers in this genre, but also to many great unsung composers: From celebrated composers like Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani & Stelvio Cipriani to long-forgotten personalities who fed the industrial backbone of Italian cinema such as Daniele Patucchi, Marcelo Giombini & Berto Pisano. The collection includes 6 previously unreleased tracks plus 3 tracks released on vinyl for the first time and 5 tracks available commercially for the first time (originally released only as a limited promo item).

Subtitled "A Voluptuous Journey Through '70s French Erotic Cinema", this compilation sounds precisely as you would imagine, and for some that'll be a very good thing, but those of you looking for something beyond the vintage euro-funk fromage-athon might be a tad disappointed. So many European B-movies and exploitation flicks from the 1970s have yielded unfeasibly brilliant soundtracks, and while there's nothing at all wrong with any of the material compiled here, there's seldom anything beyond the usual easy listening sample-baiting silliness to arouse your excitement. Having said that, when this compilation scores, it scores big: Piierre Bachelat's soundtrack for Histoires d'O is a psychedelic synth standout, while his visionary 'Motel Show' from Le Dernier Amant Romantique' is as good an Italo disco find as has surfaced in recent times. A special mention should be granted to one of the pieces lifted from the Emmanuelle 4 OST: the rather distressing 'Bach Anal', which has to be one of the most outstandingly insidious puns in the history of word play. In its own Moog-fuelled, breathy chanteuse-fronted way it does sound a bit like J. S. Bach though, which is to its credit I suppose.