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I was expecting to see a release of this one over the past few years. I had it from a good source that a release was 'in the cards', but this was 3-4 years ago, so I don't know what happened. It's a lovely score, & I hope it surfaces one day. There is another one missing from the current list of unreleased Piccioni scores - Tre Fratelli. Arrow Video recently released a blu ray/dvd of this film in the UK, so perhaps the soundtrack will follow eventually. Not sure, as with some of his other scores, if there is enough material to fill one release, as the film uses music quite sparingly. Who knows how much music was actually recorded. Both Cristo si è fermato a Eboli & Tre Fratelli came out around the same time (late 70s-early 80s) & have that lovely, subdued melancholic style that Piccioni was composing at the time.    Posted:   Aug 24, 2016 - 3:15 AM     By:   Stefan Schlegel   (Member) I am sure that the most intriguing of the three for you would be GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA. This is not at all a lounge score, but a very sombre symphonic one. This one should be right up your alley because there are reminiscences of SENILITÀ, LA VIACCIA and of LO STRANIERO, also a bit of FRATELLI KARAMAZOV creeps in in the melodic main theme. I hope that this quite fascinating score will still get an official release, but as the movie is a very unknown one this is of course not sure at current times. There are a few source music cues in the style of the 30s, but for the most part this is very impressionistic, reflective and introspective, almost meditative music which throughout conveys a real feeling of loneliness and despair. GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA gets now released by Beat. A nice surprise: http://www.beatrecords.it/shop.asp?lingua=e&idprodotto=BCM9576&uscita=prox    Posted:   Aug 24, 2016 - 3:49 AM     By:   slint   (Member) Yes, I highly recommend this one!    Posted:   Aug 24, 2016 - 4:03 AM     By:   slint   (Member) I wouldn't mind a return to symphonic scores for the next ones, such as Racconti d'estate. A proper CD release of Paura sul Mondo and finally a release of Cristo si e fermato a Eboli would also close a chapter. I've recently bought Il Mondo di Notte since I figured out it might never be on CD. It is quite a nice LP, a bit similar to I Magliari in terms of jazz-lounge material, but it is also a more pop album, with various genres from across the world (as the title suggests), including a few vocal tracks by Lydia MacDonald. Now I'm going to look for No. 2! Looking at elusive titles, did Piccioni record new music for the obscure "Sei bounty Killers per una Strage (1973)"? That's the only unreleased IMDB listing from the early 70s.    Posted:   Aug 25, 2016 - 4:40 AM     By:   MCurry29   (Member) I am sure that the most intriguing of the three for you would be GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA. This is not at all a lounge score, but a very sombre symphonic one. This one should be right up your alley because there are reminiscences of SENILITÀ, LA VIACCIA and of LO STRANIERO, also a bit of FRATELLI KARAMAZOV creeps in in the melodic main theme. I hope that this quite fascinating score will still get an official release, but as the movie is a very unknown one this is of course not sure at current times. There are a few source music cues in the style of the 20s, but for the most part this is very impressionistic, reflective and introspective, almost meditative music which throughout conveys a real feeling of loneliness and despair. GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA gets now released by Beat. A nice surprise: http://www.beatrecords.it/shop.asp?lingua=e&idprodotto=BCM9576&uscita=prox I must have this! Thank you for the heads up.    Posted:   Sep 19, 2016 - 9:57 AM     By:   EasternFinn   (Member) I received Giovinezza giovinezza and Morricone’s Space: 1999 today. I’m going to write about the latter a bit later but the previous descriptions about Giovinezza are true. It is a very introverted and impressionistic work and besides a couple of source cues fairly monothematic. But I think the balance between repetition and new surprises is very well made. The main theme is related to one of the themes of Le Altre. It is most commonly performed by strings, harp and piano on top of a bed of balalaikas (!) which was quite a surprising feature. My favourite version of the theme is “Tema conduttore Blues” where it gets a jazz band treatment. There’s another theme as well that has more atonal harmonies. The music has a nostalgic and to me even an underwater feel. It just seems to float around seamlessly and some tracks have a wonderful echo like they were recorded in a cathedral of some sort. The source cues on the other hand are written for fairly small ensembles and for me they don’t disturb the flow of the album. There are for instance a latin-flavoured dance piece, cabaret style numbers, waltz for accordion and a folk song sung in Greek (?). Not one of Piccioni’s masterpieces but a good, solid album nevertheless.    Posted:   Dec 22, 2016 - 12:50 AM     By:   Laurent78   (Member) Since I'm not that familiar with this composer, I bought two more of his CD's: BORA BORA and MIMMI METALLURGICO. I must say I like both. There is a superb main theme whistled by Alessandroni or played by the solo German flute in MIMMI...as well as other interesting material. BORA BORA is equally exciting thanks to its exotic tones. Maybe the CD is lingering a bit too long, just repeating over and over the same material. I also listened to LA VIACCIA (and have the seen the movie recently) but this lacklustre score doesn't appeal much to me. So far with these brief impressions...    Posted:   Apr 13, 2017 - 10:36 AM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) I'm so glad I bought the recent Digitmovies CD on Toto' - even though comedy soundtracks have never been high priorities on my wish list. Totò diabolicus is a most pleasing surprise for me and it has been played by me several times per day over the past week. Having never owned this score on disc before in its previous incarnation (plus never seeing the movie itself), I was not prepared to hear such ironic and macabre Piccioni music. Out of the 15 tracks from Totò diabolicus, only 3 are night club/jazz band/mambo source cues. The dozen cues of this score are basically variations on 2 themes/motifs: a lumbering orchestral tango which alternates with serious-sounding 'straight' suspense music. There is no cartoonish music to be heard here. Piccioni approached the material as if he was scoring an Italian Gothic genre flick either directed by Mario Bava or starring Barbara Steele. If one is curious enough to hear what type of music Piccioni might have provided for The Whip and the Body or Horror Castle, then one should not 'pass' on purchasing this Totò diabolicus. Soundtracks from Toto' movies are quite different from those hailing from Alberto Sordi movies. I recommend that folks explore other (non-Piccioni) Toto' discs, too.    Posted:   Apr 13, 2017 - 10:52 PM     By:   wayoutwest   (Member) Thanks Zardoz I have not got around to ordering the Toto title yet looking forward to listening to it even more now.    Posted:   Apr 14, 2017 - 6:36 PM     By:   Ag^Janus   (Member) Great! Nothing beats a good Piccioni recommendation. Piccioni + diabolicus = interesting. I expected a copy to arrive last week, hopefully this week.    Posted:   May 17, 2017 - 3:33 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) For anybody who never had gotten the 2001 "DC Recording" CD (or LP) on Puppet on a Chain ... ... this Piccioni soundtrack is getting re-issued on another U.K. label - Silva Screen! (it's not clear, though, if Silva's edition is vinyl only or on both CD & LP) Seems as though the country in which the recording sessions took place also determines the country of manufacture for subsequent album releases. Puppet on a Chain was conducted in England by Harry Rabinowitz ... making this one of the rare instances of a Piccioni score not made in Italy. I guess this means that the Puppet on a Chain soundtrack will never surface on an Italian label and will always be deemed the property of U.K. Also, this album's master tapes were probably not restored/remastered by Claudio Fuiano (or any other Italian such as Roberto Zamori, Fabrizio De Carolis, etc.)    Posted:   May 17, 2017 - 3:37 PM     By:   leagolfer   (Member) For anybody who never had gotten the 2001 "DC Recording" CD on Puppet on a Chain ... ... this Piccioni soundtrack is getting re-issued on another U.K. label - Silva Screen! Had it for years, its good score, very funky music jazzy, plus the thriller music is decent moody.    Posted:   May 17, 2017 - 4:30 PM     By:   The Juggler   (Member) The main title is one of Piccioni's very best. Never gets old.    Posted:   May 18, 2017 - 12:08 AM     By:   Ag^Janus   (Member) Also, this album's master tapes were probably not restored/remastered by Claudio Fuiano (or any other Italian such as Roberto Zamori, Fabrizio De Carolis, etc.) I think it is a straight duplicate of previous work, therefore "available again". I like the diabolical tango.    Posted:   May 18, 2017 - 3:28 AM     By:   varrick   (Member) Puppet On A Chain cd is coming June 16th! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Puppet-Chain-OST-Piero-Piccioni/dp/B0722W5NJ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1495099562&sr=1-1&keywords=puppet+chain    Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 2:15 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) This might be the banner year for unreleased Piero which is known to exist. L'assassino (Elio Petri crime thriller), released March of 1961 Il mondo di notte (documentary), opened in April '61 in West Germany La viaccia (Bolognini drama, which uses Debussy's saxophone rhapsody), premiered @ the May '61 Cannes Mani in alto (adventure, aka "Destination Fury"), first shown July '61 La viaccia surfaced on Saimel last year ... and Quartet now offers us L'assassino in the middle of 2017.    Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 3:57 PM     By:   slint   (Member) This might be the banner year for unreleased Piero which is known to exist. L'assassino (Elio Petri crime thriller), released March of 1961 Il mondo di notte (documentary), opened in April '61 in West Germany La viaccia (Bolognini drama, which uses Debussy's saxophone rhapsody), premiered @ the May '61 Cannes Mani in alto (adventure, aka "Destination Fury"), first shown July '61 La viaccia surfaced on Saimel last year ... and Quartet now offers us L'assassino in the middle of 2017. I doubt Il mondo di notte and Mani in Alto will have the same treatment anytime soon since they are not CAM. Though you problably mean Il mondo di notte No. 2 which was released in 1961.    Posted:   Jul 17, 2017 - 6:22 PM     By:   Stefan Schlegel   (Member) I doubt Il mondo di notte and Mani in Alto will have the same treatment anytime soon since they are not CAM. Though you problably mean Il mondo di notte No. 2 which was released in 1961. MANI IN ALTO as well as both MONDO DI NOTTE scores ARE CAM. Don´t let yourself be deceived by the fact that around 1960 there were LPs of the MONDO DI NOTTE scores on other labels. It is something essential which I have already explained so often on this board: Many scores which in fact belonged to CAM were released around 1960 - which means at the time before the CAM LP label even originated - on RCA singles, EPs or LPs and moreover even scores which belonged to Nazionalmusic. So it was always 50/50: Some scores which got such a vinyl release in Italy at that time were indeed RCA, but many others not at all!    Posted:   Jul 18, 2017 - 4:14 AM     By:   Leo Nicols   (Member) Piccioni's "Richmond Bridge" kinda Morricone meets Bacharach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7XivgjZ5kg    Posted:   Jul 22, 2017 - 12:29 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) I hope 'wayoutwest' & 'Ag^Janus' & 'purplemonkeydishwasher' (plus many other members) are still with us and doing OK. Hardly any FSMer is commenting about this latest Piccioni disc. Early Piccioni music (such as L'assassino) may be a harder sell than PP's erotica/lounge material from '69/'70/'71, but this should not deter fans of Piero's entire career output. As an aside, I was under the impression that Juan Ángel Saiz and Stefan Schlegel were working on getting some of Piccioni's early 1960s unreleased C.A.M. titles from Sugar Group onto discs via the Saimel label, but apparently Quartet got 1st dibs on L'assassino.     General Discussion: Piero Piccioni: your recommendations please...    << < 25 26 27 28 29  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

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