Noel Akchote/Mary Halvorson/Bill Frisell —
Loving Highsmith ... CD Ayler (Sweden), 2022. New Copy ...
$25.9928.99
A pair of duets, greatly expanded here – and taken way past their initial use as music for a really lovely film about the author Patricia Highsmith! There's nothing really soundtrack-like about the music – although the setting has given all the artists involved a chance to work on some ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Alessandro Alessandroni —
Sangue Di Sbirro ... CD Cinedelic (Italy), 1977. New Copy ...
$9.99
One of the funkiest soundtracks we've ever heard from Alessandro Alessandroni – a set that clearly shows he'd been listening to the score for Shaft, as well as a host of 70s sound library music too! There's lots of great Italian cop/crime grooves on the set – done at an understated ... read moreCD
A great little Bollywood soundtrack by one of key composers of the genre – and one that's still got all the right sort of elements you might expect! There's some really great upbeat tracks – nice groovers that even get a bit funky at times – and which have a few cool instrumental ... (Global Grooves, Soundtracks)read moreCD
The great Luis Bacalov is one of the longtime masters of Italian cinema scoring – an artist who's done everything from 60s westerns to more contemporary sentimental films – and who turns out some really nice sounds for this obscure thriller from the 70s! The main theme of the film has ... read moreCD
Very groovy sounds created to match the films of director Fernando Di Leo – best known for his crime/cop films of the 70s, but heard here on a range of scores for different sorts of films from 1969! Silvano Spadaccio works with Iller Pattacini on the wonderful score for Amarsi Male – a ... read moreCD
One of Burt Bacharach's finest moments, and a soundtrack that we never tire of hearing! Burt wrote all the tunes – and the album's a wonderful romp, with lots of odd twists and turns that are quite different from Burt's usual bag (baby!), but which still have all of the charm of his best ... read moreCD
A really unusual soundtrack from the great John Barry – maybe not what you'd expect for a British film set in the 19th Century! A large part of the soundtrack have these great brooding orchestrations – the kinds of passages that Barry would often unfurl in a James Bond film when the ... read moreCD
Elmer Bernstein at his greatest – working here with the best mix of drama and energy he could bring to a film score during this golden age – a perfect blend of older orchestrations and a new sort of emotion that was perfect for the 60s! The score follows strongly off some of Bernstein's ... read moreCD
A rare later soundtrack from Dutch composer Ruud Bos – best known for some very funky work at the start of the 70s, and still going strong here a decade later! The score's got a much more mid 70s vibe than you'd expect – like some of the best American cop show work of the early 70s, ... read moreCD
An amazing record – one that stands as one of Chico Buarque's greatest from the 70s! The set was recorded in Italy in 1970 – and features Chico singing lead vocals over backings handled by Ennio Morricone – all in a style that's a perfect blend of MPB with the best elements of ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
An amazing record – one that stands as one of Chico Buarque's greatest from the 70s! The set was recorded in Italy in 1970 – and features Chico singing lead vocals over backings handled by Ennio Morricone – all in a style that's a perfect blend of MPB with the best elements of ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
The legendary John Carpenter first made his mark with Halloween – both as a director, and as a composer – the second a role for which he's finally gotten the attention he deserved! The original Halloween soundtrack was a masterpiece in understatement – spare instrumentation, ... read moreCD
A mix of lushly romantic bits and modern studio flourishes from Italian soundtrack lifer Stelvio Cipriani – his compositions for Il Giardino Dell'Eden from 1980 – with sweeping strings and emotionally resonant pianos, along with some synthy and more stripped down touches. It somehow ... read moreCD
A striking soundtrack for this Italian horror film – not really a zombie flick exactly, but one with a very similar bent – scored by the great Stelvio Cipriani with loads of cool keyboards and rhythms! The horror mode's definitely of the John Carpenter generation – which means ... read moreCD
Stelvio Cipriani at his funkiest – taking all the lessons learned from his slinky, erotic sounds of the early 70s – and turning them into a mix of sweet sounds with a great late 70s vibe! Some tracks are upbeat and almost have a clubby feel, others have a great slow-stepping approach ... read moreCD
A great overview of the early soundtrack work of Georges Delerue – one of the first great composers to emerge from the French new wave/nouvelle vague generation – and an artist whose music was often a key part of those films! Some of the new wave cinema used music by jazz artists and ... read moreCD
A couple of great soundtracks for the films of Billy Wilder – 1960's The Apartment, composed by Adolph Deutch, and Andre Previn's work for The Fortune Cookie – back-to-back on a single CD! Adolph Deutch's compositions from The Apartment roll from an easygoing jazzy vibe to sweeping ... read moreCD
Nat Dove & The Devils —
Petey Wheatstraw ... CD Magic Disc/Traffic, 1977. New Copy ...
$6.9914.99
One of the funkiest blacksploitation soundtracks of the 70s – a rare indie gem from Nat Dove & The Devils! Dove's got a style that's a lot rougher and rootsier than other soundtrack artists of the 70s – an approach that's more based in the modes of the indie funk underground of the ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Two different Jimmy Stewart comedy soundtracks from the 60s – both of them nice! First up is Dear Brigitte – an overlooked 1965 score by George Duning – done with a mix of the playful modes you'd expect from the story, and some of those great deeper dramatic touches that Duning ... read moreCD
A creepy cover, but a really amazing batch of grooves – one that blends rootsy Brazilian percussion with elements of dub, funk, and hip hop – originally recorded as the soundtrack for a documentary on football, but sounding plenty darn great here on its own! Edson X is at the helm of ... (Brazil, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(Out of print. Booklet is wrinkled from light water damage, slipcover has water staining and an unglued seam.)
Flying Lotus —
Yasuke ... CD Warp, 2021. New Copy ...
$12.9913.99
Flying Lotus always gives us some pretty fantastic sounds – and this time around, he opens up an even new channel of his genius – serving up a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks that were originally designed for use in the anime series Yasuke! There's certainly a touch of the eastern ... (New Grooves, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Original score by Fred Frith for Thomas Riedelsheimer's film about sculptor and land art pioneer Andy Goldsworthy! Frith plays guitar, violin, berimbao, piano, and adds in a bit of samples – with help from Wolfgang Stryi on soprano sax and bass clarinet, Karoline Hofler on bass, and Bernd ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
(Out of print.)
George & Ira Gershwin —
Of Thee I Sing ... CD Capitol/DRG, 1952. Used ...
Just Sold Out!
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(Out of print.)
George & Ira Gershwin —
Oh, Kay! ... CD Nonesuch, 1994. Used ...
Just Sold Out!
A wonderfully striking soundtrack for a very offbeat film – an early 60s tale about a woman who gets trapped in her home elevator, and harassed by a band of intruders! The score by Paul Glass has all the right elements to live up to the tension in the story – beginning with those arch ... read moreCD
A great Jerry Goldsmith score from the mid 60s – penned for a western, but with a sensitivity that's much more like some of his best dramatic work of the time! There's some wonderful use of woodwinds and strings in the lineup – often with the sense of mature color and tone that Jerry ... read moreCD
The soundtrack to the 60s version of Stagecoach – the one with the outrageously beautiful Ann Margaret, Bing Crosby, Red Buttons, Slim Pickens and Alex Cord – with a lavish, though appropriately dust-strewn Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack! This '66 remake may not rival John Ford's landmark ... read moreCD
(Out of print,booklet has some light wear.)
Jerry Goldsmith/Lionel Newman —
Bandolero ... CD Project 3/La La Land, 1968. Used ...
$19.99
A way cooler soundtrack than you might expect – not only different than the usual western score of the time, but surprisingly sophisticated work for a movie that featured stars like Dean Martin, Jimmy Stewart, Raquel Welch, and George Kennedy! The music was conducted by Lionel Newman, and it' ... read moreCD
A great little package that finally brings together two different musical worlds of the great Alain Goraguer – the man who's maybe best known for providing the sounds for early recordings by Serge Gainsbourg – and an artist who also recorded some great jazz and soundtrack material on ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD
A great little soundtrack by Dave Grusin – and one of his rarest of the 70s! The work was written for the 1975 film by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum as an American caught up in the world of the Japanese mob – and unlike other Grusin thriller scores from the time, this one's a ... read moreCD
2 massive Isaac Hayes soundtracks in one set – both from the magical cinematic year of 1974! Truck Turner is a hard and heavy soundtrack that we like even more than his classic work on Shaft! Unlike Shaft, Ike actually starred in the film Truck Turner – which may be one reason why he ... (Soul, Soundtracks)read moreCD
Nice soundtrack collection of Pedro Almodovar's films. 11 soundtracks, each house in it's own sleeve with a 60 page booklet with notes in English and Spanish. Includes the soundtracks for "The Flower of My Secret", "Live Flesh", "All About My Mother", "Talk to ... read moreCD
Frank Ilfman —
Sensoria ... CD Screamworks, 2016. Used ...
$12.99
French film composer Maurice Jarre went on to become one of the biggest talents on the international scene in the 60s – but this package brings together a range of different earlier works that show a much more varied approach to his sound! Jarre was always a master of mixing the intimate ... read moreCD
Maurice Jarre is no stranger to a military soundtrack, but his work here is nicely different than the rest – maybe in part because the movie's a creative effort from director Henri Verneuil, with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the lead! There's some nice currents of whimsy and sentiment mixed in with ... read moreCD
One of the greatest soundtracks ever – a record that set a whole new standard for audio representation of a film! The mad music for the set was composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vincius De Moraes – and performed by Luiz Bonfa on guitar – but despite such prime ... read moreCD
Two very early soundtracks from legendary Polish modernist Krzystof Komeda – both very different than his 60s work for Roman Polanski, but equally striking overall! The work for Mam Tu Swoj Dom is performed on short tracks handled by different instrumental groupings – with piano, flute ... read moreCD
A sweet soundtrack from the great Polish composer Andrzej Korzynski – working here on a comedy from the mid 70s, and pulling together sounds from the lighter side of his musical spectrum! The music is a mix of electric cuts with keyboards and others that put woodwinds more in the focus ... read moreCD
Henryk Kuzniak —
Dzieciol ... CD GAD (Poland), 1970. New Copy ...
$5.99
An overlooked Polish soundtrack from the start of the 70s – scored for a comedy, but put together with a huge range of unusual and striking sounds! The record begins with a catchy theme – the sort that you'd hear in a Neil Simon comedy a few years later – but by track three, ... read moreCD
One of our favorite soundtracks ever – a jazzy swinging ode to love found and love lost – all penned by the legendary Michel Legrand! The work was composed in collaboration with director Jacques Demy for his 1966 film of the same name – and, like the previous Demy/Legrand ... read moreCD
An amazing chapter in the pre-Hair career of Galt MacDermot – a set of rare organ recordings made in the mid 60s, all of which feature Bernard Purdie on drums! The groove here is really unique – never straight ahead, and always in that choppy, African-inspired MacDermot approach to ... (Jazz, Soundtracks)read moreCD