Sarolta Zalatnay (born Charlotte Sacher in Budapest, Hungary,14 December 1947) is a Hungarian singer. She has been noted for a flourishing popular music career under Communism, and evolved from teen pop to rock music.
Showing posts with label Funk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funk. Show all posts
01/09/2025
28/08/2025
Escaping the killer skull
John Cameron (1944) is a British composer, arranger, conductor and musician. He is well known for his many film, TV and stage credits, and for his contributions to pop recordings, notably those by Donovan, Cilla Black and the group Hot Chocolate. Cameron's instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", became a hit for his group CCS and, for many years, a version of Cameron's arrangement was used as the theme music for the BBC TV show Top of the Pops.
02/07/2025
Looking into the eyes without blinking
Hypnose is a Electronic/Abstract /Jazz/Funk compilation made by legendary French Paris-based label International Music Label.
12/01/2025
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.
12/10/2024
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.
06/06/2024
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.
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.
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.
29/03/2024
Dancing across two continents
Arşivplak - Mirror
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).
19/06/2023
Multicolored paths of youth
Tickets For Doomsday Heavy Psychedelic Funk And Soul (Ballads And Dirges 1970-1975) is a Psychedelic compilation made by LA-based Now-Again Records label.
18/06/2023
Singing across the bridge
Ümit Aksu Orkestrası was a band formed by Turkish pianist, composer and
arranger Ümit Aksu. Originally released in 1975, Bermuda Şeytan Ücgeni
is an outstanding experimentation of forward-thinking jazz-funk played
by some of Turkey’s most talented musicians.
08/04/2023
Nights under the red moon
Tandy Love (real name: Andrew Shallcross, AKA Andy Votel, 1975) is an English producer and musician who co-operates Finders Keepers Records, Pre-Cert Home Entertainment & Dead-Cert Home Entertainment.
07/04/2023
The essence that motivates life
Giancarlo Barigozzi (1930-2008) was an Italian jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, composer and sound engineer; he has played with Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Gil Cuppini, Giorgio
Gaslini, Tony Scott, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Jack Teagarden, Frank
Sinatra and many others.
Rhythmic echoes coming down from Ararat
The Armenian musician Hamlet Minassian was born in Tabriz
(North-Western Iran) in 1940. After graduating from the music school of
his native city, he attended advanced courses at the Teheran
Conservatoire followed by musical research work in Europe and the United
States. His career began with composing chanson type songs.
He then
moved into the film industry where he rapidly built up a reputation as
the composer of a number of popular themes. Hamlet Minassian has also
produced original vocal and orchestral arrangements of Armenian folk
tunes and has composed a number of romances and the ballet.
Awinsome and dizzying spin on disco pop, recorded in westernized Iran
during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. All but criminalized
in the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's theocratic repression, Hamlet
Minassian's solo masterpiece is a testament to the Middle East's
forgotten dance music culture.
05/04/2023
Overwhelmed by the vertigo of modernity
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).
20/03/2023
Journey into the unknown
Danger, Suspense Et Eprouvettes is a Jazz/Funk/Easy Listening compilation made by French Editions Montparnasse 2000 label.
18/03/2023
Embracing the dark side of soul
Nico Fidenco (Real name: Domenico Colarossi, 1933 - 2022) was an Italian singer and songwriter with a long and prestigious career who gained considerable popularity from 1960 onwards, after the release of the song What A Sky (Italian Su Nel Cielo), included in the soundtrack of the movie by Francesco Maselli I Delfini and composed by Giovanni Fusco. With his angelic voice he made millions of lovers dream not only in Italy, but all over the world, singing dozens of songs in English as well.
21/02/2023
Discordant voices against injustice
Ziad Rahbani (1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist,
performer, playwright, and political commentator. He is the eldest son
of Fairuz and Assi Rahbani.
His compositions are well known throughout the Arab world, especially
because he is responsible for Fairuz's musical works from 1980s onwards.
Many of his musicals satirize Lebanese politics both during and after
the civil war, and are often strongly critical of the traditional
political establishment.
02/02/2023
Dancing under hot sun
Da'asa - The Haunting Sounds of Yemenite-Israeli Funk 1973-1984 is a Mizrahi/Yemenite Jewish,/Funk/World compilation made by Israeli label Fortuna Records.
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