Facing the terrors from childhood

 

Alfonso Carlos Santisteban (Madrid, 1943 - Málaga, 2013) was a Spanish film soundtracks and library music composer, arranger, producer and orchestra leader; focused on lounge and easy listening and on soul-jazz funk, pop & psychedelic. He composed soundtracks to over 100 movies.

 

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Drinking Rakı in an old cup

 

Barış Manço (1943 - 1999) was a Turkish rock singer, song writer and tv host. Living in Paris during the 60s, he started a band Les Mistigris. Considered one of the most influential pop artists of Turkey. Founder member of the band Kurtalan Ekspres, died suddenly of a heart attack in 1999.

 

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Pan flute exercises for vampires

 

The Mystery Kindaichi Band is a Japanese experimental band masterminded in 1977 by  composer Kentaro Haneda, with an all-star lineup of the best jazz-funk studio musicians mid-‘70s Japan offered, including Hideo Ichikawa, Jun Moriya, Tadaomi Anai and Koji Hadori. Despite the misleading soundtrack designation in its title, this isn’t a film score. Instead, the album was conceived as an audio interpretation of Seishi Yokomizo’s famed fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi.

 

The band plays with a looseness akin to that of Japan’s at-the-time bursting city-pop scene. They perform gaiety and slick disco-funk bookmarked with forlorn digressions. Many of the tracks divulge into effervescent escapes wherein members of The Mystery Kindaichi Band bounce off of each other. Most of these free-form dioramas follow unrelated, though nonetheless endearing, introductions.

 

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Dancing to multicolored melodies

 

 

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 - Chorus

Melting snow with sulfur vapors

 

Satan In Love - Rare Finnish Synth-Pop & Disco 1979-1992 is an Electronic/Synth/Psychedelic compilation made by Finnish Label Svart Records, Finnish label, established in Turku in 2009 by Jarkko Pietarinen and Tomi Pulkki, specializing in re-releasing underground music on vinyl. 

 

Hienot tanssiaskeleet!

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Mixing dreams in inexact proportions

 

Fusioon was a Spanish progressive rock/jazz-rock/"Canterbury sound" band from the 70's, formed by Manuel Camp (piano, organ, moog, mellotron, vocals), Marti Brunet (guitar, vocals, synthesizer), Jordi Camp (bass, vocals) and Santi Arisa (drums, vocals, flute). Their first album, "Fusioon" (1972) was instrumental and focused on Manel Camp's keyboard abilities and shared similarities with Ekseption, Focus and The Nice. Their second album, also entitled "Fusioon" (1974), proved to be a major step forward adding some Canterbury influences like Egg, National Health and Soft Machine. Their third and last work "Minorisa" (1975) was more complex and approached the music of Zappa, King Crimson and Gentle Giant.

 

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Dancing on Liquid Comets

 

Yan Tregger is the stage name of Edouard Joseph Scotto Di Suoccio, born in Algeria to French parents of Italian origin; he is a prolific French composer, trumpeter and library music specialist, recognized for his work in genres such as jazz-funk, psychedelic disco and electronica since the 1970's. He is known for his cult albums, such as the "Catchy" and "Ducks & Drakes" series, which have established him as a major figure in the French experimental disco scene and are highly valued by collectors and DJs.

 

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Impressions of modern life

 

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.

 

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From where each word is a song

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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Looking into the eyes without blinking

 

Hypnose is a Electronic/Abstract /Jazz/Funk compilation made by legendary French Paris-based label International Music Label.

 

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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)

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

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

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

Dancing across two continents

 

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

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).

 

Alessandro Alessandroni - Inchiesta

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.

 

 

Tickets For Doomsday Heavy Psychedelic Funk And Soul (Ballads And Dirges 1970-1975)

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. 

 

 

Ümit Aksu Orkestrası - Bermuda Şeytan Üçgeni