A pale blue dot

 

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961, Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works.

 

Ennio Morricone - Il Pianeta D'Acqua

Sounds for the absolute mystery

 

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. (1920-1996) was an US-born Italian composer and conductor; he was a major musical figure twice over, in movies as well as in composition and education, and he comes by that presence as his birthright. His father, Gino Marinuzzi (1882-1945), was a major Palermo-born conductor and composer, known around the world from the dawn of the 20th century, closely associated with the music of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Donizetti, Bellini, and Richard Strauss. 

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. graduated from the Milan Conservatory in 1942, and later he was closely associated with Teatro dell'Opera de Camera in Rome, and made his conducting debut with the opera's ballet company in 1947. Marinuzzi subsequently turned to composition, including writing music for movies and radio. He entered the Italian film industry in 1950 with Romanzo d'amore, and over the ensuing decade wrote the scores to such diverse productions as Jean Renoir's Le Carrosse d'or (1952) and Vittorio Cottafavi's Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961). Marinuzzi also taught composition from the early '50s onward (among his most notable students is pianist Vittorio Bresciani) and later became fascinated with electronic music. In 1956, in collaboration with Federico Savina, Marinuzzi co-founded the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. His later achievements include the creation of the Fonosynth 2 elettronico, an instrument on which electronic music can be composed.

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. - Rhythms In Suspense

Traveling on sine waves

 

Felice Fugazza (1922-2007) was an early Italian electronic and pioneering analog sounds composer and player, he has been for years professor of Electronic Music at Bologna Conservatory and he wrote the first book in Italy about synthesizers.

 

Felice Fugazza - Megamoog

Rolling with the beauties with slanted eyes

 

Lovin' Mighty Fire (Nippon Funk - Soul - Disco 1973-1983) is a Japanese Funk/Soul dancing compilation made by English label BGP Records.

 

Lovin' Mighty Fire (Nippon Funk - Soul - Disco 1973-1983)

Expelling aberrant entities

 

Giuliano Sorgini is an Italian composer and musician who initially created music for TV and in the '70s switched to cinema; he mixed beat, prog, funk and psychedelia with library music.

 

Giuliano Sorgini - Un Urlo Dalle Tenebre (L'Esorcista N°2)

Jumping over the electromagnetic field

 

Jean-Michel Defaye (1932) is a French composer and orchestra leader.

 

Jean-Michel Defaye - Eclectisme Sonore

Stochastic distribution of sound waves

 

Paul Antonin Gilbert Guiot and Jean-Paul Louis Raoul Guiot were French performers, songwriters and musical producers.

 

P. Guiot & JP Guiot - Algorhythms

Echoes of the bright forests

 

Begging the Moon: Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945​-​1960 is a Thai Luk-Krung music compilation made by English label Death is not the End.

 

Begging the Moon-Phleng Thai Sakon & Luk Krung, 1945​-​1960

Lost in desolate places

 

Armando Sciascia (1920-2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and violinist; founder of Vedette Records.

 

Fabio Fabor & Armando Sciascia - Infini

Memories of teenage fun

 

Andy Moore (pseudonim of Janko Nilović) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

 

Andy Loore - Water Show

Lessons to learn birdsong

 

Katsutaro Kouta (小唄 勝太郎) was a Japanese geisha, female singer born in Niigata Prefecture on November 6, 1904; died June 21, 1974. She has performed in the following genres: 小唄 (Kouta), 清元 (Kiyomoto: Shamisen music), 民謡 (Min'yō), 新民謡 (Shin-Min'yō : Ondo), 端唄 (Hauta)and 歌謡曲 (Kayōkyoku).

Kouta Katsutaro - Kouta Katsutaro

Mysteries from chilhood

 

Christian Gaubert is a French composer, pianist, arranger and band leader. Collaborations include Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, Gilbert Bécaud, Johnny Hallyday, Serge Gainsbourg, Pascal Auriat, and Gérard Lenorman among others.

 

Christian Gaubert - The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane

Encounters outside the solar system

 

Bernard Fèvre is a self-taught french composer, now over 60 years old. In his early life, his day job was in precision mechanics; on saturday nights he played piano in a R' n B' band, Frankie Presle and the G.men. He then spent ten years as part of Les Francs Garçons, a singing group in the "Don Camillo" night-club in Paris. He now works for a French radio station, providing its 'sound environment'.

His first solo record is "The Strange World of Bernard Fèvre", followed some months after by "Black Devil Disco Club 78" which had a new and pioneering electronic sound. The records met with limited success and Bernard Fèvre remained in obscurity for more than twenty years. He released at least 3 albums of electronic library music during the 70s.

 

Bernard Fevre - Orbit Ceremony 77

Dark pleasures of the flesh

 

Nora Orlandi (1933) is an Italian pop singer, composer and pianist, also the author of some very strange psychedelic Giallo-soundtracks.

 

Nora Orlandi - Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah

Following the warm currents

 

Guy Pedersen (1930 - 2005) was a French Jazz-Soul-Funk Double-bass player. He was, with Pierre Michelot and Michel Gaudry, one of the most appreciated double bassists for his qualities as a sideman, accompanying the greatest soloists. Pedersen also composed the music for numerous short films, as well as the music for the credits of Thalassa TV series.

 

Guy Pedersen - Bass + Bass + Bass

Failed simulation of reality

 

Roger Davy is a French session guitarist and composer that made several library albums in the 70's, his most characteristic trait being the cosmic guitar twang that graces all of his albums. His signature guitar just glides along and fits perfectly with all of the enchanting arrangements primarly made with all the electronic trickery coming from the seventies. 

 

Albert Assayag is a French (born in Morocco, 1938) songwriter, pianist, accordionist, arranger and conductor; also works as a musical and artistic guide. He began as a musical arranger and composer of music for television, notably France Inter and Télé Monte Carlo.

 

Roger Davy & Albert Assayag - Régénération

Surfing on cold icy weather

 

Finnish Graffiti - Rautalankaa Ja Beat-musiikkia 1961-65 is a Beat/Surf Finnish compilation made by Finnlevy label.

 

 

Finnish Graffiti - Rautalankaa Ja Beat-musiikkia 1961-65

Blurred sunsets over Rome

 

Delirium Of The Senses - Psychedelia In Italian Cinema is an Italian Beat/Psychedelic film music compilation made by English label Bella Casa.

 

Delirium of The Senses (Psychedelia In Italian Cinema)

Reverberations of the cosmic background

 

Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

 

Janko Nilovic - Percussions Dans L'Espace

Tripping into Lombardy

 

Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide is an Italian Space age/Psychedelic/Lounge cinema music compilation made by Italian label Giallo Records.

 

 

Beat Psichedelico Alla Celluloide

Catching aerials spying

 

Barry Gray (1908, Lancashire, England - 1984, Guernsey, Channel Islands) was a British musician and composer best known for his collaborations with television and film producer Gerry Anderson.

Born into a musical family, studied diligently and became a student at the Manchester Royal College of Music and at Blackburn Cathedral. He studied composition under the Hungarian born émigré composer Matyas Seiber.

In 1956 Gray joined Gerry Anderson's AP Films and scored its first marionette puppet television series, The Adventures of Twizzle. This was followed by Torchy The Battery Boy and Four Feather Falls, His association with Anderson lasted throughout the 1960s. Although best known for his score to Thunderbirds (in particular the "March of the Thunderbirds" title music), Gray's work also included the themes to all the other "Supermarionation" productions, including Fireball XL5, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Joe 90. 

Additionally, Gray is known as the composer for the Anderson live-action series of the 1970s, such as UFO and Space: 1999. His work in cinema included the scores to the Thunderbirds feature films Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), and the live-action science-fiction drama Doppelgänger (1969)).

Barry Gray - The Secret Service

The soil is nourished by white blood

 

Piero Umiliani (17 July 1926 - 14 February 2001) was an Italian composer of film scores. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, covering genres such as Spaghetti Westerns, Eurospy, Giallo, and softcore sex films.

His composition "Mah Nà Mah Nà" (1968) was originally used in Sweden: Heaven and Hell, a 1968 Mondo documentary about Sweden. Umiliani's other scores included Son of Django, Orgasmo, Gangster's Law, Death Knocks Twice, Five Dolls for an August Moon,Baba Yaga and The Slave and Sex Pot.

 

Piero Umiliani - 10 bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano

Oscillations of very distant stars

 

I Pulsar (Pulsar Music Ltd) is an Italian recording studio band formed in 1976 by jazz musicians Enrico Pieranunzi and Silvano Chimenti and called "The Pulsar" in honor of the neutron star.

 

Pulsar Music Ltd. - Milano Violenta

Music to wear a red beret

 

Ittiologia is an Italian Library music compilation made by Cardium Label (includes Alessandro Alessandroni, Amedeo Tommasi, Atmo and Franco Tamponi).

 

Ittiologia

A walk through the cosmic surroundings

 

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.

Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she helped in the development of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog's first commercially available keyboard instrument.

 

Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer, which helped popularize its use in the 1970s and won her three Grammy Awards. Its commercial success led to several more albums, including further synthesized classical music adaptations, and experimental and ambient music. She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982) for Walt Disney Productions.

 

 Wendy Carlos - Digital Moonscapes

Submerged in deadly waters

 

Luciano Michelini (1945) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist and organist, well known by film scores as The Island of the Fishmen (1979), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) and The Cheaters (1975).

 

Luciano Michelini - L'Isola Degli Uomini Pesce

Falling into deadly spyral

 

Beth B and Scott B is an influential duo of US experimental filmmakers, primarily active in New York City in the late 1970s to early 80s and associated with the "No Wave" and "Cinema of Transgression" movements. Scott B and Beth B (known under various combinations of their first names with "B" initial) were married and lived in NYC's East Village area. They directed several "no budget" 16-mm shorts and feature-length films via B Movies independent production company, with critics and progressive moviegoers praising their unique "punk bohemia" lo-fi aesthetics and violent, sinister themes. The duo also extensively collaborated with local experimental performers and noise artists and cleverly played in the New York hip crowd's impatience and "flakiness." Beth & Scott would typically finish a new movie within a few days, ensuring a steady stream of fresh material for weekly screenings at local rock clubs, such as Max's Kansas City or Mudd Club, New York.

 

In September 1982, Beth B & Scott B premiered their most acclaimed movie at the New York Film Festival, Vortex — a dark "noir" detective/thriller starring Lydia Lunch (of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks) with James Russo, Bill Rice, Haoui Montaug and Ann Magnuson. They ended the collaboration soon after the film's premiere, continuing working in film independently; Beth B has a more prolific artistic career, while Scott focused on the technical side, co-founding "Antenna Films" production company in 2000.

 

Beth B. & Scott B. - Vortex

Dancing across two continents

 

Arşivplak Mirror is a Turkish Funk/Disco selection made by english label Arşivplak.

Arşivplak - Mirror

Lost continent in flames

 

Giorgio Carnini is an Argentinian-Italian composer, arranger, keyboardist (organ, synthesizer, piano), conductor and music educator.

Giorgio Carnini - Trait D'Union

The roar precedes the popular uprising

 

Alessandro Alessandroni (1925, Rome, Italy - 2017, Rome, Italy) was an Italian composer, arranger, vocalist, whistler, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, sitar, keyboards, mandolin, mandocello, accordion, banjo, flute, harmonica, jew's harp, recorder, melodica and ocarina). He was the founder of the vocal ensemble I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. Husband of Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Previously married to Giulia Alessandroni (Kema) until her death in 1984.

 

Also collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Pervirella. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film Around the World with Peynet's Lovers.

 

He founded the octet vocal group I Cantori Moderni in 1961. The group, which included his wife, Giulia De Mutiis, performed wordless vocals on several Italian movie soundtracks. Most notably, I Cantori Moderni are featured on the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà", written by Piero Umiliani for the 1968 Luigi Scattini mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso and popularized on The Muppets Show

 

Alessandro has also composed film scores, including Any Gun Can Play (1967), Johnny Hamlet (1968), The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine (1969), Lady Frankenstein (1971), The Devil's Nightmare (1971), The Mad Butcher (1971), Seven Hours of Violence (1973), Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973), Poker in Bed (1974), White Fang and the Hunter (1975), Blood and Bullets (1976), L'adolescente (1976), La professoressa di scienze naturali (1976), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976), Women's Camp 119 (1977), Killer Nun (1978), L'imbranato (1979), and Trinity Goes East (1998).

 

Alessandro Alessandroni - Inchiesta