A rare Bruno Nicolai score for the follow-up to the movie Quando Le Donne Avevano La Coda (aka When Women Had Tails) – and a soundtrack that also includes some melodic elements from the Ennio Morricone music for the first film! As with that one, the style here is pretty playful – maybe ... read moreCD
A beautiful bossa soundtrack from late 60s Italy – somewhat obscure, but easily right up there with some of the better-known classics from the time! The score is awash in bossa-styled rhythms, and features a fair bit of organ, vibes, and piano – often used sparely and spaciously to ... read moreCD
Riz Ortolani was a film score giant in the 60s, but he was still going strong well into the 80s, too – as you'll hear on his excellent soundtrack for this film! The story's a relatively serious one, and so is the music by Ortolani – very much in the mode of his most careful, most ... read moreCD
Riz Ortolani scored most of his bigger fame in the 60s – a time when some of his soundtracks hit huge global success – but the maestro kept on doing great work into the 70s, including this overlooked gem from the middle part of the decade! Ortolani sounds quite different here than on ... read moreCD
Pan/Scan is a great name for a group like this – given that sound of this album is nicely cinematic overall, and takes us back to the days when larger format films had to be panned and scanned when they were shown on TV! There's a fair bit of electronics in the music – following on ... read moreCD
One of the greatest blacksploitation soundtracks ever – a massively beautiful record that goes beyond any cliches of the genre, and serves up a fantastically unique batch of tracks! Chisoul arranger Johnny Pate did the music for the film – and (dare we say it?) it's even greater that ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Frank Perkins/Troy Donahue/Modern Folk Quartet/Con —
Palm Springs Weekend ... CD Warner/Intrada, 1963. New Copy ...
$18.99
A 60s rock and roll soundtrack, but one that's also a cut above the usual mixed-bag bunch – thanks to a nicely cohesive set of charts from arranger Frank Perkins! About half the tracks here are by Frank – and they're nicely groovy instrumentals that have a jot of jerk and twist rhythms ... read moreCD
Sublime work from Piero Piccioni – a really Morricone-like soundtrack, and one that's filled with hauntingly beautiful melodies! There's a lightly gliding feel to the record that's really wonderful – light lines on organ, topped with wordless vocals from Edda Dell'Orso and I Cantori ... read moreCD
A trio of soundtracks from 60s films that starred Italian comedy giant Toto – each of them a bit different, given the change of narrative and composer! Piero Piccioni steps off with 15 tracks from Toto Diabolicus – music that mixes a bit of crime jazz with some of his early ... read moreCD
A great little soundtrack, with almost a Morricone-like vibe – done in a style that shares some of the maestro's talent for isolating a key instrument next to larger orchestrations – all done with a beautiful balance of space and sound that makes even some of the mellower moments sound ... read moreCD
A really beautiful little set of tracks – music composed to accompany vintage porn films from the 70s – played to perfection by the great Alex Puddu! The story behind the project is great – a friend was involved in rescuing and issuing rare porn from the underground – most ... (Deep Funk, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A beautiful little soundtrack – one that's put together to accompany the fantastic bio-pic on the life of Elis Regina – one of the greatest Brazilian singers ever – and a set that's filled with some of her most compelling songs, plus a handful of great tracks by other artists too! ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A really great soundtrack from Gruff Rhys – a set that's maybe even more personal and beautiful than some of his more familiar records on his own! The music's for a film about the first week that poet Dylan Thomas spent in America in the 50s – but the sound is quite different from any ... read moreCD
One of Nelson Riddle's finest moments of the 60s – the wonderful original soundtrack for the campy full length Batman film! The tunes have a totally excellent blend of the dramatic and the jazzy – often using full orchestrations, but in a tight way that goes for rhythmic passages and ... read moreCD
A rare 50s soundtrack from Renzo Rossellini (brother of director Roberto) – penned for an all-star Italian cast that included Alberto Sordi, Sophia Loren, and Vittorio De Sica! The music here has that mix of unusual string and woodwind flourishes that marked the great shifts in Italian ... read moreCD
A rare French soundtrack by Nino Rota, done for this 1960 film by Rene Clement – but filled with all the bold themes and whimsical moments of Rota's best work for Fellini! Clement's film has some beautifully spare moments that Rota scores perfectly here – letting the music drift along ... read moreCD
Carlo Rustichelli —
Rogopag ... CD Quartet (Spain), 1963. New Copy ...
$22.99
Music for an unusual film directed by four master filmmakers of the 60s – Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Ugo Gregoretti – all united here by the solid scoring work of Carlo Rustichelli! The music often has a very cool early 60s Rome sort of vibe – ... read moreCD
(Limited edition of 300!)
Philippe Sarde/Stan Getz —
Mort D'un Pourri ... CD Universal (Japan), 1977. New Copy ...
$13.99
A lost jazzy gem – featuring solo work by the great Stan Getz! The soundtrack is one of Philippe Sarde's greatest of the 70s – warm and mellow, with a dark edge that's fitting for the moody Georges Lautner film that accompanied it. But the real treat here is Getz – who solos ... read moreCD
There's a big ol' fuse about to set off the dynamite on the cover – and the music itself often has a similarly suspenseful mode – slow-building tunes that have a slightly different take on the usual style of western tension in 60s cinema, superbly scored by Carlo Savina! Carlo begins ... read moreCD
A huge array of groovy genius from the mighty Lalo Schifrin – the South America jazzman who first rose to fame in the group of Dizzy Gillespie, the moved on to give us some of the coolest film scores of the 60s! This set brings together eight of Lalo's best albums from that period, plus a ... read moreCD
An amazing package of music – not just the original two albums of Lalo Schifrin music that were issued from the Mission Impossible TV show – but a massive 6CD collection that brings together work from all seven seasons of the program – a huge amount of material that's never been ... read moreCD
A beautiful score from British jazzman John Scott – an artist who's worked in so many different styles over the years, and is definitely in the moodiest side of his spectrum for this obscure satanic film from the 70s! The instrumentation is conventional, but used in really weird ways – ... read moreCD
A great collection of jazz-based soundtrack work from French modernist Martial Solal – served up here in a nicely expanded CD set! First up is Solal's score for A Bout De Souffle – a film best known as Breathless around the world, and an early movie by Jean Luc Godard that perhaps gave ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A surprisingly wonderful soundtrack from Stephen Sondheim – all instrumental, which is quite a change from his more famous work for stage – but filled with loads of beautiful sounds that remind us what a fantastic composer he is! There's lots of the complex elements that we love in ... read moreCD
Very cool sounds from this Richard Conte exorcist film from the mid 70s – a movie that was also known as Naked Exorcism in some corners of the world – and which gets a soundtrack that's every bit as creepy as its title! The music is heavy on organ at times – used in a moody way ... read moreCD
Mod mod grooves from this ultra-hip Japanese combo of the 60s – a garagey group who burn with real intensity in this selection of obscure soundtrack material! The Spiders may not have reached big fame on this side of the Pacific, but back in the late 60s they were clearly the stuff of ... read moreCD
Herman Stein might not be one of the heavyweights of Hollywood scoring, but he really knocks it out of the park for his music to The Intruder – a lively dramatic soundtrack with some nice currents of jazz in the mix! The Intruder score is somewhere in territory explored by folks like Elmer ... read moreCD
Beautifully sweet sounds from a Polish TV show in the 70s – music that's got a light and dreamy vibe, and reminds us a lot of the best German easy listening of the time! Most tunes mix in sweet strings and a playful melody – often on keyboards, and with an almost Stelvio Cipriani vibe ... read moreCD
Johnnie Taylor —
Disco 9000 ... CD Columbia, Late 70s. New Copy ...
$2.996.99
Not the album Disco 9000 – which was a cool Johnny Taylor soundtrack in the late 70s – but an equally great collection of his massive work for Columbia Records at the time! The package is a perfect introduction to Taylor's magic at the label – that great point when he worked his ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A zombie with a violin – could there be anything spookier? Maybe not, especially when set to great 80s period music by Vince Tempera – who you may know from more famous 70s Italian work teamed up with the two Bixia brothers! The music here has lots of electronic elements – beats ... read moreCD
Ken Thorne —
Sinful Davy ... CD Quartet (Spain), 1969. New Copy ...
$12.99
A lively little soundtrack from Ken Thorne – very much in the same mode as his better-known late 60s comedic film work! The music's got a charm that matches the image on the cover – a bright sort of 60s approach – playful at some times, bold at others – with fuller ... read moreCD
A wonderful soundtrack from the great Stefano Torossi – presented here with lots of bonus tracks in a really wonderful edition! The music a beautiful blend of Hammond organ, twangy guitar, and some swinging rhythms that are very much in the best late 60s Italian mode – maybe not as ... read moreCD
(Limited edition!)
Tsushima Toshiaki —
Saru No Gundan ... CD Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1974. New Copy ...
$19.99
Really crazy soundtrack work – recorded for what looks to be a Japanese version of The Planet Of The Apes! The music is an insane blend of modes – bits of percussion, sound effects, odd electronics, and other unusual sounds – often used in tight, rhythmic ways over a series of ... read moreCD
Armando Trovajoli in the late 70s – heard here on two different soundtracks that provide a nice update to his sexy 60s groove! First up is the score for La Terrazza – which features both some uptempo funky club groovers, and some slower slinky sex-drenched tunes – at a level that ... read moreCD
Funky grooves, floating vocals, mellow keyboards, and a whole lot more – easily one of the greatest soundtracks ever from the legendary Armando Trovajoli – and certainly one of the grooviest too! There's a sublime quality to this score that's well made Sessomatto one of the best-remembe ... read moreCD
A jazzy gem from Piero Piccioni – the composer who turned out some of the best spy soundtracks on the 60s Italian scene! The album's got all the best early touches of the maestro – a style that's rooted in jazz, but steps out in other mod directions too – all with the kind of ... read moreCD
Piero Umiliani —
Fischiando In Beat ... CD Omicron/Schema (Italy), 1968. New Copy Gatefold ...
$16.99
We're not entirely sure what "fischiando" means, but we can definitely testify that the album lives up to the "beat" in its title – those kind of groovy, mod tunes we love so much in Italian 60s soundtracks from the great Piero Umiliani! This set's even more obscure than ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Piero Umiliani —
L'Insegnante ... CD Digitmovies (Italy), 1975. New Copy ...
$14.99
A playful little soundtrack from Piero Umiliani – maybe not as sex-drenched as you might expect from the cover image, but still pretty nice overall! The music marks that mid 70s shift back towards lighter comedic melodies that some of the composers were using at the time – almost a ... read moreCD
Wonderful work from one of the grooviest soundtrack composers ever! At the end of the 60s, Piero Umiliani wrote some of the best film scores to come out of the Italian scene – and this little gem, long out of print, is certainly one of them! The album's got some beautifully jazzy numbers ... read moreCD
A sweet little island-based soundtrack from Piero Umiliani – one that's served up in just the right blend of exotica and jazz! Some elements here resonate with Umiliani's more familiar Italian scores of the time – some sweet keyboards that trip out nicely at a level that's a few ... read moreCD
Percussion and special effects – a really wonderful blend, especially in the hands of Italian maestro Piero Umiliani! The album's one of Piero's more experimental and electronic outings – done for the Liuto sound library label, with lots of cool production techniques that make the ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Piero Umiliani —
Psichedelica ... CD Omicron/Schema (Italy), 1971. New Copy Gatefold ...
$11.99
Not the sort of psychedelic music you'd expect from an American rock band of the late 60s – and instead, a stunning set of funky genius from Italian soundtrack maestro Piero Umiliani! The record's actually a precursor to Umiliani's famous global score for Sweden Heaven & Hell (Svezia ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A stunner of a soundtrack from the maestro Barry White – his only entry into the blacksploitation film genre of the 70s, and a complete doozy throughout! For the album, Barry's stripped down the bigger space of his own records, and his Love Unlimited productions – into some shorter ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
It's no secret that some of the greatest jazz soundtracks ever were recorded in Paris – and this CD contains 2 of them! First up is the landmark Un Temoin Dans La Ville – recorded under the leadership of tenor sax player Barney Wilen, who had made such a huge contribution to Miles ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A 70s soundtrack that hardly needs an introduction – given that its music and image were virtually ubiquitous at the time! The record's best known for John Williams' famous "da-da da-da" theme for the film – used in the titles, and whenever the big guy wanted to attack – ... read moreCD
A soundtrack for a very silly movie – and one of the oddest albums ever recorded by the great Paul Williams – who both sings and stars in the movie as the phantom in the title! The tunes have a surprisingly heartfelt quality that really comes out when you hear them away from the movie ... (Vocalists, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A fantastic noir soundtrack from Japan – one that's got a feel that's much deeper than some of the more familiar crime jazz modes you might expect! There's a hell of a pianist on the record – a player we can't name, because the notes are all in Japanese – but who really gets a ... read moreCD
A richly playful soundtrack from Bruno Zambrini – scored for the fourth film in the very popular Fantozzi series – and maybe even more offbeat than all the previous three soundtracks put together! There's no returning current of music at any one time – and instead, the whole ... read moreCD
A a nice mid 80s Italian comedy soundtrack Bruno Zambini – his work from 1986's Scuola Di Ladri – with 80s style keys and period European dancefloor soul influences in the mix – not as much on the goofy side as we remembered, and lots of fun! There's some definite traces of ... read moreCD
A soundtrack that's very much what you'd expect from the cover image – a later Italian comedy, and one that's scored with lots of groovy, goofy sorts of themes! There's also a nice undercurrent of sentiment, one that's maybe more French than some of the Italian material from the time – ... read moreCD
A fantastic tribute to the 808 drum machine – tracks all pulled together in support of the documentary on the magical beatmaker – but a set that stands more than strongly on its own! The mix of music is great – a heavy dose of 80s hip hop and club tracks, mixed with some more ... (Hip Hop, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Various —
Ciao! Manhattan ... CD Cinewax/Light In The Attic, 1973. New Copy ...
$13.9915.98
The lovely and late Edie Sedgwick is the cover draw on the record and movie – but the music within is maybe an even more interesting blend of sounds, and very different than what you might expect to come from the famous star of Andy Warhol's Factory scene! Some of the music here is by Gino ... read moreCD
A fantastic package that really gets at the genius of Lionel Bart – the songsmith who really transformed the sound of postwar England, and helped breath new life into both the pop charts and the world of the West End musical! Bart's probably best known on these shores for his musical Oliver ... (Vocalists, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A Guido Crepax cover, and a batch of amazing soundtrack grooves – all wrapped up wonderfully as the 9th installment in the all-great Easy Tempo series! The sound here is superb – a blend of jazzy, bossa, and slightly funky numbers – all played with plenty of soul, and served up ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
The most amazing and groundbreaking American musical phenomenon in ages gets some love from the hip hop and neo soul community that helped inspire it – spearheaded by Hamilton driving force Lin-Manuel Miranda and the mighty Questlove of The Roots! Much like the musical itself, there's a ... read moreCD
A pair of soundtracks to a film project by director Louis Panassie – a movie that presents the story of jazz, but through a range of performances that also include gospel and a bit of blues – all with music performed exclusively for the film! Much of the work is in a trad and swing ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
An incredible package that really gets at the full range of music used in the films of French director Francois Truffaut – a legacy that begins with the jazzy sound of his early new wave recordings, through his 70s work with composers Georges Delerue and Antoine Duhamel, to his still-strong ... read moreCD
A tribute both to the genius of Ennio Morricone – and to the five years of music created by the Cineploit label – served up in a style that's a wonderful combination of both worlds! The sound is more in the small combo mode that Cineploit gives us on its records – not the full ... read moreCD
A fantastic collection of songs originally penned by soundtrack genius Ennio Morricone – served up here in a host of vocal versions that really show how many different artists and styles he influenced over the years! Some of the cuts here are expected Italian pop singles – vocal ... read moreCD
Some of the coolest, most swinging film themes you'll ever hope to hear – not the usual band of over-hashed classics from the 50s and 60s – but instead a really fresh, obscure collection – and one that features lots of rare work from the British scene too! Vocals and ... read moreCD
Documentary DVD & soundtrack CD to The Unseen – A Detroit Beat Tape – chronicling the contemporary and recent past of the Detroit independent/underground hip hop production scene! The doc is directed by Gus Sutherland and features interviews with and/or footage pretty incredible ... (Hip Hop, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Film noir to new wave, Italian film scores, cop movies, crime jazz, blacksploitation funk, spaghetti westerns, and more!
