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 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
Beautiful sounds from Max Richter – the modern classical composer who's elevating to almost the same film score status as Philip Glass! As with Glass, Richter can make music for movies without losing any of the depth of his non-film compositions – and here, he works sublime minimalist ... read moreCD
Max Richter —
Henry May Long ... CD Deutsche Grammophon, 2017. New Copy ...
$15.9916.99
Sublime soundtrack material from Max Richter – but work that dovetails perfectly with some of his more "serious" albums on Deutsche Grammophon! The music features Richter on piano, alongside two cellos, a violin, and viola – but sounding completely unlike piano and strings ... 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
An overstuffed collection – one that's filled with famous Nino Rota soundtrack material – for films by Fellini, Visconti, and others! First up is the excellent score for 8 1/2 – beautiful work by Nino Rota – filled with the kind of classic themes that distinguished his best ... read moreCD
Pete Rugolo —
Thriller ... CD Time/Solid (Japan), 1961. New Copy ...
$16.99
An excellent crime soundtrack! Pete Rugolo's best known as the arranger who made Stan Kenton, The Four Freshmen, and June Christy sound so great in the 50s – but in later work, he did some incredible jazz soundtracks, as you'll hear on this batch of work for the TV show thriller. Tunes are ... read moreCD
The lively return of Brancaleone – the Italian comedic hero from The Crusades – whose musical journey is often a mix of different modes! Carlo Rustichelli handled the music, and the styles here are a mix of the jaunty march numbers that marked the heroe's main theme on his debut – ... read moreCD
A dramatic soundtrack for L'Armata Bracaleone – a mid 60s Italian fantasy action film that starred Vittorio Gassman in a strange setting that was sort of a twisted version of the Middle Ages! The tunes on the set are often orchestral and mood-setting – but a few of the more standout ... read moreCD
An album that's made in Italy, and made in a very groovy mode as well – as the set mixes up some very cool soundtrack styles from that country's hip scene of the 60s! The main theme almost has a western-like drive, while other cuts have weird organ lines that are almost Piccioni-like, and ... read moreCD
A pair of horror soundtracks back to back – both of them pretty darn great! Alfonso Santisteban is amazing on the score for Killing Of The Dolls – working in modes that are hardly horror at all, and instead using all sorts of weird instrumental flourishes and strange twists and turns ... read moreCD
One of the more obscure soundtracks from Italian maestro Carlo Savina – penned for a late 60s horror thriller in a very compelling mix of modes! There's definitely some of the darker sounds here you'd expect, but the score also has some very surprising light melodies that come as a stark ... read moreCD
Lalo Schifrin and martial arts films are always a wonderful combination – and that's definitely the case here in the Big Brawl – where Lalo does the same great musical job for Jackie Chan that he did for Bruce Lee in the early 70s! The music here is quite nice – both in terms of ... 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
Renato Serio —
L'uomo Puma ... CD Beat (Italy), 1980. New Copy ...
$19.99
An obscure little soundtrack – for a weird Italian film about a hero named Puma Man! The music here is straighter than you might expect from the cover – surprisingly serious overall, and done with a warm blend of orchestrations and keyboards – sometimes jazzy with strings at the ... read moreCD
A rare soundtrack session from Japanese jazz legend Hideo Shiraki – and maybe one of the earliest recordings we've ever seen from the drummer too! The cover's somewhat unassuming, but the music inside is quite vivid and rich – jazz tracks used as a film score, often with a quality that' ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
An excellent blacksploitation soundtrack – and every bit as funky as any of Willie Hutch's work for other Motown soundtracks at the time! Larry Mizell and Dennis Coffey help out on the instrumentation – giving the album an extra funky instrumental edge, one that takes it way past Edwin ... (Soul, Soundtracks)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
A legendary TV soundtrack – music for a show that only ran for 8 episodes, but which has lived on for decades past the original program! The Hanged Man features some of the funkiest grooves to ever come from the Themes International sound library label – cuts scored by Alan Tew, and ... (Sound Library, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Fantastic! This excellent double CD set is an amazing batch of grooves put together by the brilliant German film composer Peter Thomas, for a set of films from the 60s based on super G-Man Jerry Cotton. The music's a wonderful batch of swinging swinging grooves, with cool jazzy bits, nice ... read moreCD
The funkiest version we've ever heard of this great Bruce Lee soundtrack – one that brings together all the sweet instrumental moments by Peter Thomas, with sound that's much better than any other reissue! While previous versions have taken the music along with the dialogue, this gem of a ... read moreCD
Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra —
Raumpatrouille ... CD Bungalow (Germany), 1966. Used ...
$11.99
Wonderful – and one of our favorite soundtracks ever! The score was written by German jazzman Peter Thomas – and has a mad mad mad style that blends together jazz, early electronics, bossa nova, Hammond organ – and a dozen other musical touches you'd never really expect to ... read moreCD
(Out of print.)
Mayuzumi Toshi —
Only On Mondays ... CD Super Fuji Discs (Japan), 1964. New Copy ...
$16.99
A very cool mix of music – served up here on a soundtrack CD that's almost like having an audio version of a movie! The songs are all relatively short, and are the mix of jazz and lighter melodies that you might find in an early 60s Italian soundtrack – perfect music for the ... read moreCD
A slinky score from Armando Trovajoli – done for a film that was also titled The Bishop's Bedroom – a place where some of the slinky action in the film must have taken place! There's an occasional period vibe to the music – a few older jazz touches here and there – but most ... read moreCD
A wonderful sound library set from the great Piero Umiliani – and a record that's filled with some of his coolest electronics ever! The feel of the record is very much in keeping with the image on the cover – kind of sci fi, but kind of playful too – a wonderful blend of ... read moreCD
Some crazy sounding film score work by Piero Umiliani – as if you couldn't guess from the image on the cover! Vai Avanti Tu is a lively comedic soundtrack with a surprising amount of reed work in the mix – as a number of tracks feature this saxophone line that jaunts along with a merry ... read moreCD
A sensual soundtrack for the sensual revolution – presented here with a nice balance between dreamy numbers and groovier tunes! Some of the music here actually uses woodwinds in almost a chamber-style mode, while others bring in more of the 60s electric elements you'd expect – but ... read moreCD
Groovy exploitation soundtrack music from 4 films (Necronomicon, Death on a Rainy Day, How Short is the Time for Love, and The Vampire Happening), with music by the Dutch composer Jerry Van Rooyen. The tracks move from jazz, to 60s mod, to swinging London, and a whole lot more – and the ... read moreCD
Caetano Veloso & Jaques Morelembaum —
O Quatrilho ... CD Blue Jackel, 1995. Used ...
$1.99
A beautiful batch of music that formed the score for this recent film, and an album that includes a few vocal tracks from Caetano Veloso, plus a number of other spare instrumental ones with instrumentation by guitar, bandolim, cello, and bandoneon. Veloso's on guitar on the instrumental as well as ... (Brazil, 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
Pat Williams/Jimmy Webb —
How Sweet It Is ... CD RCA/Vocalion (UK), 1968. New Copy ...
$16.99
A fantastic early soundtrack from the great Pat Williams – cut around the same 60s stretch that he was doing his wonderful albums for Verve – in the years before he'd break bigger with TV work for The Bob Newhart Show and other 70s programs! The tracks have loads of easy, bossa, and ... 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 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 crazy kind of soundtrack for a crazy kind of film – a late 80s Italian comedy about a guy who discovers a cavewoman and brings her back to live in contemporary Italy! The music is about as 80s as you can get – especially in the comedy style – upbeat, and playful – with ... read moreCD
Two creepy old guys, with giant balls of yarn, slowly unraveling a dress worn by a sexy starlet – probably everything you need to know about the movie and the record, summed up by the goofy image on the cover! The score is definitely in the more playful Italian comedic modes of the early 80s ... 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
Includes material from Johnny Hartman, Dinah Washington, Barbara Lewis, and Irene Kral. CD
Various —
Ciao! Manhattan ... CD Cinewax/Light In The Attic, 1973. New Copy ...
$9.9915.98
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
Great jazzy moments from the best years of European cinema – a collection that starts out with the French New Wave, then moves into a range of great sounds from the Italian and French scene of the 60s and early 70s! Most of the music here isn't straight jazz – and instead, the cuts mix ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Well, the title's a bit ambitious – and sets a goal that it can hardly live up to – but this is still a great little set! This nicely-priced 4CD package isn't really an overview of the "history" of soundtracks – but it is a wonderful collection of Italian cinematic ... read moreCD
Mindblowing work from the Italian soundtrack scene of the 60s and 70s – a true treasure of tracks that more than lives up to the "psycho beat" promise of its title! The tunes are a heady brew of tripped-out styles – floating organ, slinking bass, stepping strings, fuzzy ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Soundtrack funk doesn't get any better than this – thanks to a head-expanding of tracks from the Italian scene of the 60s and 70s – served up with the usual ear for a great cut by the folks at Easy Tempo! The groove here is far from the "easy" you might expect – and ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Slammin's a definite good choice for the title of this one – as this 5th entry in the Easy Tempo series seems even funkier than the other volumes – a set that's got plenty of full-on grooves, hand-picked from the genius Italian soundtrack years of the 60s and 70s! If you're looking for ... (Funky Compilations, 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
Genius! Pure mad genius – and one of the best volumes in this always-great series! After 10 volumes, the folks at Easy Tempo have become incredibly well skilled at picking groovy soundtrack tunes – and this beautiful 20 track package is as much a delight for the ears as it is for the ... (Funky Compilations, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Music from Mónika Juhasz Miczura & Gipsy Star, Adrian Simionescu & Orchestre Marin Ioan, Rona Hartner, Valentin Rotary & Petre Badea, Orchestre Marin Ioan with Gabi Enescuana, Rona Hartner & Valentina Popescu & more. CD
A great little soundtrack that really matches the spirit of the film – Quentin Tarantino's own blacksploitation soundtrack – served up here as a mix of classics from the 70s, plus a few special tracks recorded just for the movie! The cover's got a great badass look, and the record ... 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
Music from Elvis Costello, the Corrs, Jamie O Neal, Wet Wet Wet, the Cardigans, Boyz II Men, All Saints, Vanessa Williams, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, LeAnn Rimes & more. CD
Movie themes from Ennio Morricone, Chen Min, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Shomura, John Williams, Nina Rota, James Horner, Francis Lai, and more – 19 tracks total. CD
Film noir to new wave, Italian film scores, cop movies, crime jazz, blacksploitation funk, spaghetti westerns, and more!
