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A dark score for this late 60s Claude Chabrol film – penned by frequent musical collaborator Pierre Jansen, who really outdoes himself with this great soundtrack! In keeping with Chabrol's narrative, lots of the musical tones are nice and dark – some very submerged in the mix, with ...

A beautifully moody score from Stelvio Cipriani – a perfect illustration of his unique talent for creating sounds that are slow, yet funky – slinky, yet never cheesy – a rare and wonderful approach to tension and action in the 70s! Most numbers here have a slow-stepping electric ...

Two very different soundtracks from Italian maestro Carlo Savina – back to back on a single CD! I Due Kennedy is a film that looks at the late JFK and brother Bobby Kennedy – and is scored by Savina with all the dark, moody, somber tones you might expect – music that definitely ...

Heavenly sounds from Mario Nascimbene – one of the more compelling soundtracks we've heard from the Italian peplum years! The music floats along beautifully – often light woodwinds, or light chorus passages to handle the melody – and some spare percussion moving quietly to create ...

Great 60s grooves from Carlo Savina – two playful comedic scores from the 60s, both filled with whimsical instrumental touches! Veneri Al Sole is excellent right from the start – with a Piero Piccioni-like blend of jazz, Latin rhythms, and some mod 60s instrumentation – ...

There's some great spooky touches here from Romolo Grano – including wordless vocals from Edda Dell'Orso, and moog from Grano himself – used beautifully to score this unusual soundtrack from the 70s! The main theme is an older-style Italian number, sung by Luigi Proietti – but ...

Francesco De Masi's soundtrack to the original Inglorious Bastards, aka Counterfeit Commandos – the seedy little 70s Italian-made war yarn with Fred Williamson and Bo Svenson that influenced Tarantino's not-really-a-remake! De Masi's symphonic suite and live orchestrations bring a triumphant ...

Features "The Rope & The Colt" – sung in two great versions by Scott Walker! ...

A very unusual package – put together by United Artists publishing, in support of the Scorcese film with Robert DeNiro and Liza Minelli! The box features the soundtrack from the film, sheet music in a book and on separate pages, and 45s of songs done for the film! ...

This one's a pretty serious score – despite what looks like a groovy sexy cover – written and conducted by Ronald Stein, with mostly sombre emotional themes. Sammy Davis Jr sings "Katherine's Love Theme", which has some nice sad lyrics – and there is one groover called ...

Beautiful music written for a series of film shorts by design team Charles & Ray Eames – and a somewhat-unknown chapter in the career of soundtrack legend Elmer Bernstein! The music here is often much more personal and intimate than some of Bernstein's better-known soundtracks – ...

A groovy giallo score from Ennio Morricone – done for director Paolo Cavera's La Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero, aka Black Belly Of The Tarantula – full of spare, dissonant tension and hauntingly effective moodiness! The tunes Morricone did for the film are a perfect example of his haunting ...

Ouch – what a cover! The image is so graphic, it makes the grooves on the record sound tame by comparison! Yet given that the soundtrack's done by Nico Fidenco – well-known for his sexy work of the 70s – there's plenty of great stuff going on here – a mix of Italian and ...

A really beautiful little soundtrack from Francesco De Masi – scored with a depth of feeling that's really surprising, and which goes way past the obvious! There's some beautiful woodwind passages that arc and turn with a quality that's almost fragile – yet bold enough to paint a vivid ...

Great early work from Nico Fidenco – an Italian composer we know best for his sexy work in the 70s – but who still sounds equally great here on a 60s intrigue thriller! There's some great mod touches on a few numbers – groovy tunes that have a shake and jerk rhythm that really ...

One of Barry Gray's greatest moments – the ultra groovy soundtrack for Space 1999, the short-lived but well-remembered mainstream sci-fi show from the 70s! The title theme has a nice bit of a dancefloor bounce to it – pre-guessing the disco-copy mode that other space soundtracks were ...

Sublime bossa tunes by the legendary Ennio Morricone – packaged in a hardcover book with beautiful color images from the films! The set was put together by the folks at Cinedelic Records, and goes for only the best of the best of the groovy side of Morricone's genius – those gently ...

Human sacrifice never sounded so groovy – thanks to a wicked score from Carlo Savina, who really knocks it out of the park with this one! The leadoff theme is jaunty, bouncy, and almost more of a mod 60s Italian number – and the score that follows often has some other groovy touches, ...

An excellent double-header – and a very cool collection that brings together two different scores for the film Una Su 13 – one used in the Italian release, the other for the American version! Carlo Rustichelli handled the Italian tracks – and he brings his great legacy of comedic ...

A rare Ennio Morricone soundtrack from the late 70s – recorded at a time when the maestro was moving onto bigger fame in the US, yet could still create a great old school score when he wanted! The style here is nice and dark – lots of spare, isolated sounds – especially off-tuned ...

Sublime Italian soundtrack funk – and one of the greatest albums ever from 70s maestro Stelvio Cipriani! The music was scored for a schlocky horror film about a giant octopus – but Cipriani's approach here goes far beyond its roots – beautifully blending together tightly ...

A nude panther? This one already had our attention with the title – and once we heard the music, things got even better – a very groovy blend of jazz and 60s elements by Sandro Brugnolini & Luigi Malatesta – put together in modes that rival some of the better-known Italian ...

A beautiful tribute to one of our favorite soundtrack composers ever – maestro Armando Trovajoli, one of the greatest talents of the Italian scene of the 60s and 70s! This beautiful package is as lovely as some of Trovajoli's best music for films – a full-color, hardcover book that's ...

A really groovy little soundtrack – filled with sweet mod musical elements, including a fair bit of great organ and guitar! The organ is especially nice – used in that stretched-out, almost spooky way you'd hear on some of Piero Piccioni's best soundtracks of the time – still ...

Two beautifully sensitive scores from the great Stelvio Cipriani – a sometimes-overlooked Italian maestro from the 70s, and one who finally seems to be getting his due in the reissue market! Estratto Dagli Archivi Segreti is a soundtrack made up of some beautifully spare moments – a ...

One of the most sentimental scores we've ever heard from Stelvio Cipriani – but one that also hangs onto all of his great 70s mellow modes as well! Often, Cipriani's 70s sounds are turned towards love and sex – but here, they're cast towards a heartbreaking narrative that's underscored ...

A great mix of Italian cinema sweep and late 60s-styled sunshine rock and psych folk grooves – Gianni Marchetti's work for Il Sole Nella Pelle – plus a wealth of bonus material! It’s a mix of moody strings, horns and piano that work in a timeless, delicately dramatic way, with ...

A trio of mid-to-late 60s Italian spy soundtracks – Italo Greco and Gianni Boncompagni's work for Riuscira' Il Nostro Eroe A Ritrovare Il Piu' Grande Diamante Del Mondo, Boncompagni's score for Colo Di Sole, and Bruno Canfora's work for Spia Spione – on one great CD from Beat Records! ...

Great 60s work from Italian soundtrack maestro Piero Piccioni – featuring 2 different soundtracks for doctor comedies that starred the great Alberto Soldi! The music is a wonderful blend of the lighter side of styles that Piccioni worked in – with a bit of jazz, a bit of bossa, and ...

A mid 70s youthful and lusty score for La Prima Volta Sull'Erba – composed by Fiorenzo Carpi and conducted by Bruno Nicolai – a mix of surprisingly playful, charming numbers and more romantic drama style gestures! The film has a 19th Century setting, so there's plenty of classic dance ...

A haunting little western score from Bruno Nicolai – one with some great sensitive moments that really deepen the sound! There's a few driving numbers that are more of what you'd expect from a western at the time – but much of the score features these slow moving, sad-tinged ...

A really cool spy soundtrack from the Italian 60s scene – put together by Piero Umiliani with lots of jazzy touches! The music here is a nice change from the more obvious, more familiar American spy modes of the time – and often uses some cool vibes mixed with horns, to create this ...

A beautiful tribute to Italian director Mario Monicelli – a book of images, packaged with a CD of music from his films! The images are wonderful – lots of black and white movie stills, mixed with color images of posters too – often in historical chronology with some additional ...

One of the sweetest soundtracks we've ever heard from the Bixio Frizzi Tempera trio – penned for a late 70s Italian love story, with all the right sounds to match! There's a mellow, erotic feel to most of the music – that great 70s European style that's never too cheesy, and which ...

Few folks can do a sexy 70s soundtrack as great as Stelvio Cipriani – and this excellent album is definitely proof of that fact! The music is laidback, mellow, and moves with this slow-stepping approach that really grabs us right from the start – especially given the album's use of ...

One of the greatest Italian crime soundtracks of all time – a totally groovy little record that's done in a style that's quite different than American crime scores of the time, but still completely wonderful! Most of the instrumentation here is relatively spare – almost a small combo ...

A cool late 70s soundtrack from Stelvio Cipriani – for the Italian & French co-production Enfantasme – a film we know little about, but with a nicely dramatic score that dabbles a bit on spacier 70s Euro sounds! There's a bit of electric piano and Moogy sounds, along with more ...

A rare Morricone spy spoof soundtrack – written for a film that starred Sean Connery's kid brother! The film – also known as Operation Kid Brother in the US – was a blatant attempt to cash in on the fame of James Bond, as the director hired Sean Connery's brother (who'd never ...

A great Italian cop soundtrack from maestro Stelvio Cipriani – an artist who really knows how to move between groovy and funky styles with a great deal of ease! Some of the best tracks on the set have that easygoing, love-laced style that Cipriani did better than anyone else – lovely ...

A soundtrack steeped in Euro funk and disco from Franco Micalizzi – his work for Stridulum, also known as The Visitor – a wild film starring John Huston as Jerzy – as a being from outerspace with telekinetic earthling offspring and a crazy cast that includes Glenn Ford, Shelly ...

A surprisingly playful score – given that the film deals with a labor organizer – groovy, but in a 70s way, with lots of nice warm touches from the brothers DeAngelis! Some numbers have a bouncy theme that takes off from the main title music – almost an early 60s style of Italian ...

A trio of masterful film scores from Italian cinema maestro Armondo Trovajoli – 1963's La Visita, 1964's Alta Infedelta, and 1967's Le Belle Famiglie – on one great CD! The sound of La Visita is fairly light and playful, with some fairly insistent guitar and organ bits. Titles include ...

A tremendous soundtrack from the vastly under-recognized Berto Pisano – the kind of record we'd rank right up there with our favorite Morricone scores from the time! Berto's working here in a sublime style that sometimes features electric keyboards and moody wordless vocals, and other times ...

Classic slasher scoring from Fabio Frizzi – one of the few Italian cats who really helped set the sound of horror at the start of the 80s! There's a mix here of older Italian modes and some of the leaner, more electric elements that crept in during the previous few years – which means ...

A score from Fabio Frizzi that's surprisingly delicate and beautiful in many moments – with some spacey early 80s production flourishes in others – pretty strong stuff from the Frizzi, and with quite a surprising sound given the dark bloody horrors suggested by the film's title and ...

A crazy exploitation genre fusion in the Emanuelle series – in which the globe trotting erotic adventurer winds up in situations with the world's last Amazonian cannibals – an anything goes entry in 70s sleazy cinema scored with some of the funkiest music we've ever heard from Italian ...

A hip little western score from Mario Migliardi – an Italian composer we'd never heard before, but who we're really digging for this set! The soundtrack has a really nice mix of modes – one that includes a fair bit of dark, moody numbers – tunes that are on the lower end of the ...

A soaring, joyous score from Francesco De Masi – not nearly as dark as some of the other spaghetti western soundtracks of the time – and filled with the sort of proud, bold sounds you might expect from a more mainstream American western! There's still plenty creative going on in the ...

Offbeat western soundtrack material from Carlo Savina – 1972's I Senza Dio, plus pieces from 1969s E Intorno A Lui Fu Morte. I Senza Dio is certainly an out of the ordinary batch of sounds for an Italian western, though it does get the mood right. There's lonely, kind of galloping ...

That's a pretty goofy cover on the front – and it's a great fit for Piero Picconi's music for these two late 70s Italian sex comedies! Rag Arturo De Fanti Bancario Precario (The Precarious Bank Teller) features some great warm passages that are dripping with 70s Euro sex – nice ...