Would love to hear from anyone Who Owns this Set,have recently been listening to a number of Giallo Scores that I had and have been picking up a Few new Ones and liking the music better than ever Particularly the Nicolai Scores.Believe the music on Sound Dimensions is quite Similar to there Giallo Style,Would be very Interested to hear from anyone who has the set and what they think,do they make a good listen,or are they really just a collection of tracks that are not really a cohesive listen.
Sound Dimensions Music for Images and Imagination
Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai
Label: GDM Records Date Recorded: 1972
6 CD SET
This is a really interesting one; it's a reissue of a collection of rare atmospheric, avant-garde music that was composed/recorded in 1972 by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai for the RCA catalogue. It was entitled "Dimensioni Sonore" and was issued across 10 LPs and created to be used as library/background music that film-makers could licence to use in their productions.
Thanks Bill, Think I would like Sound Dimensions,would certainly like to check it out at some stage,like the mix in Morricone/Nicolai Giallo's Scores that have a Great Theme or two Mixed in with other atonal, dissonance.Certainly something about them that seems to draw you in especially the ones with great themes that you're left yearning to hear again
First I would like to distinguish between the giallo scores and this material. Ennio's average giallo score could contain a melodic main theme or a melodic love theme. Also the odds are these would include some lounge or rock source cues. To add to that the dissonant stuff on giallo scores tend to go to the dark side of instrumentation and approach. I was always curious about, not just Morricone's, but many composer's attraction to this "difficult" type of music. So I decided to explore it. Sound Dimensions is pure experimentation but puts different eccentuations on different instruments and different moods. There are pieces that are more "up" than in a giallo score. It also sometimes feels I really can hear the difference between Nicolai's and Morricone's pieces after awhile. At the time I also discovered another box set that I thought was more interesting called Gruppo Di Improv Visazione Nuova Con Sonanza Azioni 1967-69. It included a DVD about the group showing a concert they did and footage of recording sessions. The documentary was fascinating in that it obviously was in favor of this type of experimentation and "new" music yet it concluded it would have to lead to a dead end. Which is fair because the value of it has been pretty well established, not just for horror films but all kinds of abstract ideas and infinite concepts like space, black holes, theoretical speculations, etc. But at the same time there is only so much that can function behind such music particularly onscreen.
Thanks Morricone,For the insight Years ago I always liked many of the tracks on Giallo Scores that I owned,but they where not really what I was into at the time thought to myself that they certainly might be something that I might get into at a later stage.Just Can't listen to Enough of them at the Moment, From a Genre that I would have described as one of my least Favorite to being one of my most Favorite type of styles of music.
Noticed that it was originally released on ten lps is there any General Theme to each of them
Never knew about Gruppo Di Improv Visazione Nuova Con Sonanza Azioni 1967-69 Box Set, do own 1975 Certainly an Interesting album to listen to but not sure I'd say it's Enjoyable would Describe it as the First music ever made by Primeval Animals in a Cave,in a Primitive Jazz way.
First I would like to distinguish between the giallo scores and this material. Ennio's average giallo score could contain a melodic main theme or a melodic love theme. Also the odds are these would include some lounge or rock source cues. To add to that the dissonant stuff on giallo scores tend to go to the dark side of instrumentation and approach...
These juxtapositions are what make most of those giallos so irresistible to me. I love hearing a light, breezy bossa, followed by fingernails-on-chalkboard orchestral mayhem, followed by a "rock" tune with a trumpet freakout, followed by more mayhem, followed by another take on the love theme. The dissonant aspects become even creepier in relation to the lighter moments.
I had this on LP for many years. To my ears, unlistenable. When some completist collector offered me $500 bucks for all ten LPs, I jumped at it. Not one melody on the entire set.
Special attention has been taken to preserve the original sound of the original recording sessions; the sound of each instrument is absolutely the same as when it was first recorded. The listening feeling is intact in the same way as the Composers originally intended. - http://www.intermezzomedia.com
