Humming harmonies from the underworld

 

Riz Ortolani (1926 - 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. He scored over 200 films and television programs between 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over fifty years; internationally, he is best known for his genre scores, notably his music for mondo, giallo, horror, and Spaghetti Western films.

 

His most famous composition is "More," which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. 

 

Riz Ortolani - Danza Macabra

Waiting for dawn arrival

 

Andrzej Waldemar Korzyński (1940 - 2022) was a Polish composer whose work ranged from some of the biggest hits from the 1960's to the early nineties, a popular children's musical ("Akademia Pana Kleksa") and scores for some of the best Polish films of the second half of the 20th century, including Andrzej Wajda's (The Birch Wood, Man of Marble) and Andrzej Żuławski's (The Devil, Possession). 

Born in Warsaw, Korzyński graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in 1964; also he was a member of the Polish Film Academy.

Andrzej Korzynski - Trzecia Część Nocy

Invoking the powers of the singing nymphs

 

Milos Krkoska was born on June 21, 1965 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). A permanent collaborator of Zdeněk Troška, ​​he was born in Bratislava, where he studied composition at the conservatory. 

 

In 1984, he went abroad, continued his composition studies in Freiburg, Germany, and then in Vienna. In collaboration with the EMI Music Publishing group, his music is played all over the world. He has lived in the Czech Republic since 1999. Here, his well-known works include film music - for example, Juraj Jakubisko's film It's Better to Be Rich and Healthy Than Poor and Sick, Zdeněk Troška's fairy tales The Princess from the Mill 1 and 2, The Most Beautiful Riddle, the comedies The Stonecutter 1 - 3, or The Doctor from the Hippopotamus Lake.

 

Milos Krkoska - Other Dimensions

Eliminating what we deeply fear

 

Paul Ferris (1941 - 1995) was a English film composer and actor. Born in Corby, Northamptonshire, Ferris provided scores for various low budget British horror films during the late 1960s and early 1970s; he also scored Reeves' The She Beast (1966) and The Sorcerers (1967), as well as other British films including The Blood Beast Terror (1967), Clegg (1970), The Creeping Flesh (1973) and Persecution (1974).

 

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Caring for disturbing ancestral secrets

 

Gil Mellé (1931, New York, New York, USA - 2004, Malibu) was a jazz saxophonist and respected visual artist, best known as a cutting-edge creator of electronically generated music.

His 1970 theme for "Night Gallery" was the first all-electronic main title for a TV series, and his music for 1971 sci-fi thriller "The Andromeda Strain" became the first all-synthesizer score for a feature film;his music lent itself to sci-fi and horror projects, including orchestral scores for the pilot of "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the four-hour "Frankenstein: The True Story" (1973), which he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. Melle created landmark electronic scores for sci-fi TV movies including "A Cold Night's Death" and the four-hour "World War III." He wrote and performed music for several telefilms dealing with sensational murders, including "Fatal Vision," Ted Bundy story "The Deliberate Stranger" and "The Case of the Hillside Strangler."

His artistic abilities also led to album-cover paintings for Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, as well as art-gallery showings in New York. Melle and his group, the Electronauts, debuted electronic jazz at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival. The following year, Verve released his "Tome VI," the first all-electronic jazz album.

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Messages from the place of eternal rest

 

Richard Band (1953) is an American composer of film music. He has scored more than 140 projects, including From Beyond, which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Sitges Film Festival. In addition, he scored Parasite (1982), Ghoulies (1985 and Reanimator (1985).

 

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Times of imperial expansion

 

Carlo Savina (1919 - 2002) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, guitar).

 

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Enhancing the synesthetic view of the world

 

Fabio Borgazzi (1920-2011) (aka: Fabio Fabor) was an Italian prolific soundtrack and library music composer.

 

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Hidden powers in the darkness

 

Egisto Macchi (1928 - 1992) was a enowned Italian composer who created approximately 50 cinema soundtracks, primarily for Belgian and French films. He also contributed musical commentary to approximately 1000 documentaries and television shows.

 

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The evil being emerges from within

 

Richard Band (1953) is an American composer of film music. He has scored more than 140 projects, including From Beyond, which won the award for Best Original Soundtrack at the Sitges Film Festival. In addition, he scored Parasite (1982), Ghoulies (1985 and Reanimator (1985).

 

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Spirals of deep anguish

 

Carlo Savina (1919 - 2002) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, guitar).

 

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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

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

Immersed in a sound collage

 

Daniela Casa (1944-1986), also known under the pseudonym Elageron was an Italian singer, composer and synthesist . A genuine pioneer of experimental pop music, abstract electronics, Giallo jazz and even heavy drone rock jams, her elusive and infectious music joins the dots and loops between other Italian female electronic composers such as Giulia De Mutiis (later Giulia Alessandroni), Doris Norton and Suzanne.

 

Daniela Casa - Sovrapposizione Di Immagini

Eight waves from the future

 

Suzanne Ciani (Indiana, 1946) is an USA musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic sound. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album five times. Her success with electronic music has her dubbed "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero".

 

 

Suzanne Ciani - Lixiviation

The beauty of psychotic thoughts

 

Suzanne Ciani (Indiana, 1946) is an USA musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials. Her career has included works with quadraphonic sound. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album five times. Her success with electronic music has her dubbed "Diva of the Diode" and "America's first female synth hero".

 

Suzanne Ciani - Flowers of Evil

Opening brains until universal borders

 

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.

 

Bruno Nicolai (1926, Rome - 1991, Rome) was an Italian composer, conductor and keyboardist (organ, piano). Notably the composer and director of numerous film and television scores. He also served as musical director for other composers' film scores, prevalently those of Ennio Morricone, Carlo Rustichelli and Luis Enriquez Bacalov. 

 

Nicolai studied piano, organ and composition at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, studying piano under Aldo Mantia, and composition and organ under Goffredo Petrassi. Whilst at the conservatory, he met fellow student Ennio Morricone who also studied under Petrassi. A friendship began that would last many years. 

 

Throughout the 60's and 70's, Nicolai scored a number of films, working several times with directors such as Jess Franco, Tinto Brass and Alberto De Martino for their giallo and exploitation films. During this time, he also composed library music, primarily for his own labels Gemelli and Edi-Pan, but also for other labels like RCA. His big break came in 1965, when he was musical supervisor for the Sergio Leone film "For a Few Dollars More", scored by Ennio Morricone. In 1966, he reprised this role for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Nicolai's last score was for the 1988 TV series "La coscienza di Zeno", directed by Sandro Bolchi.

 

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Conjunction between past and future

 

Dariush Dolat-Shahi (1947, Tehran) is an Iranian-American composer and instrumentalist on the Tar, the traditional Persian lute. His compositions include electronic and instrumental music as well as music for traditional Persian instruments.

 

Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar

Friction light flashes

 

Remi Gassmann is an american classical avant-garde composer, best known for his work in pioneering early electronics. He studied with Paul Hindemith at Berlin’s Musik Hochschule, where he met fellow student Oskar Sala. Along with Oskar Sala he conceived the score for George Balanchine’s ballet "Electronics" in 1961, he also assisted Oskar Sala with the sound effects for Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Birds" in 1963. 

 

Oskar Sala (1910 - 2002) was one of the most innovative German composers in the history of electronic music. His unique instrument, the Mixtur-Trautonium, was first introduced to the public in 1952 and soon received international licenses. Its massive architecture remains so unique that no one can reproduce the instrument nor interpret any of his compositions. Sala had been a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of the Trautonium. But physicist Sala studied music with Paul Hindemith in 1930 at the Berlin conservatory and played his compositions for Trautonium. Early on with Trautwein, he composed pieces for Trautonium and performed them with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Carl Schuricht in 1940.

From the 1940s, Sala dedicated himself to film scoring and refined numerous classics. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was unsuccessfully searching for an acoustic environment for eerie scenes in The Birds (1963) until Sala convinced him to use his Trautonium-generated sound-effects.

 

 

Remi Gassmann & Oskar Sala - Electronics • Five Improvisations On Magnetic Tape

A walk through the inner clock

 

George Antheil (1900 - 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. 

 

In 1923 Antheil moved to Paris, where he had the support of many influential friends, among them his idol Igor Stravinsky, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and Man Ray.

His inventions included a patented torpedo guidance system and a broad-spectrum signal transmission system which then was called frequency skipping, co-authored with actress Hedy Lamarr. He wrote his autobiography Bad Boy of Music in 1944.

Lowell Percussion Ensemble - Ballet Mécanique