Soundtracks

SNOW3, the third installment in the collection of indispensable references of the series "Secret Nuggets of Wise" presents: soundtracks. Like the two previous albums from Le Chant du Monde, "Northern Soul" and "Reggae", the new installment delves deep into the history of the subject, presenting tracks by Michel Legrand as well as those by Michel Magne, Bernard Gérard, Michel Colombier and Serge Gainsbourg, and Riz Ortolani.

"Gangsta's Paradise" is a 1995 single by Coolio with vocalist L.V. Used for the film Dangerous Minds, this UK CD5 was released by MCA Soundtracks.

Empire Elite: The Best Of The Best Modern Soundtracks is a 2001 compilation CD where the best songs from soundtrack albums of recent times (in this case, the 1990's) are considered. This was released by Empire via Upfront.

We never planned for this album. It’s a response to the sad and sudden loss of our incomparable colleague, Ariane Prüssner, who died tragically from undiagnosed lung cancer, early in May 2021.
Immediately, we realised that we had a wonderful legacy of these two soundtracks which were both recorded in the summer of 2020 in two very short sessions, each of three hours, which were never intended for release but were recorded for use as the soundtrack to two ‘art-house filmed versions’ of our concertplays Vision (the imagine testimony of Hildegard of Bingen) and Unsung Heroine (the imagined life and love of woman troubadour Beatriz de Dia).

Lovely melodies , innovative sound-effects and a stringent subject matter (their beloved hobby ) : cycling and especially the myth of the worlds greatest sporting event . The TOUR DE FRANCE . This recording reminds me of another fine moment in KRAFTWERK's history “AUTOBAHN”. This dynamic feeling of a non-stop forward movement through electronic music . Hats off to the originators and respect for their best album to date.

There are few World film composers that can boast the prolificacy of Piero Piccioni. Since the early 1950s Piccioni has been a truly innovative composer of film music. In the 1950s he composed under the pseudonym of Piero Morgan, and since his first soundtrack Il Mondo Le Condanna of 1952, many directors sought Piero Piccioni to score the soundtracks for their films: Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Elio Petri, Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Alberto Sordi, Luigi Comencini, Antonio Pietrangeli, Lina Wertmuller, Tinto Brass, Dino Risi, are just some of the great directors for whom he scored more than 300 wondrous soundtracks. Swept Away, Le Mani sulla città’, Camille 2000, Colpo Rovente, The 10th Victim, Amore mio aiutami, More Than a Miracle, The Light at the Edge of the World, Puppet on a Chain, Lucky Luciano, Cristo si è Fermato a Eboli, Anna Karenina, Finché c’è guerra c’è speranza, Viaggio con papà, Fumo di Londra are just a few gems among many more. With great versatility, Piccioni incorporates jazz, funk, fusion, bossa, classical and contemporary 20th Century symphonic elements into his kaleidoscopic sounds which have been the lush sonic backdrop for everything from psychedelic, political, thriller, horror, romantic, comedy, western, classic novel adaptations, mythological, historic and epic film productions of the golden age of Italian and international cinema spanning four decades.