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Digitmovies is glad to release for the very first time on CD the OST by the prolific trio Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera from the dramatic movie Ritratto Di Borghesia In Nero directed by Tonino Cervi and starring Senta Berger, Ornella Muti, Capucine, Mattia Sbragia, Paolo Bonacelli, Giuliana Calandra, Giancarlo Sbragia, Stefano Patrizi, Maria Monti, Eros Pagni, Christian Borromeo.

It is based on the novel La Maestra Di Piano by Roger Peyrefitte.
Venice in summer 1938: The young Mattia Morandi (Patrizi) from Lecco arrives in the Venetian lagoon after having won a music aid grant.
He becomes a friend of Renato Richter (Borromeo) and also the lover of his mother Carla (Berger), his piano teacher.
The woman hopes that her son will marry the very beautiful and coddled Elena (Muti) of the very rich Mazzarini family whom she gives piano lessons.
The very young girl falls in love with Mattia who requits her love and leaves her mature lover.
Carla does not accept this love defeat and she does her best to revenge the betrayal and to try an impossible reconquest by sending anonymous letters, writing blackmails and even seducing Mattia\'s girlfriend.
Also Elena does not admit any defeat and she kills her opponent.
The investigation of commissioner Franchetti (Pagni) is immediately deadlocked due to the power and respectability of the Mazzarinis.
Elena and Mattia willl marry in a church with a sumptuous ceremony.

Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vince Tempera have written a monothematic score based on a recurrent romantic and sad theme for piano an orchestra, Carla\'s Theme introduced in a modern version with rhythmics (side A of the original single, tr. 1) and reprised with variations as in Tr. 3, Tr. 4, Tr. 7, Tr. 11, Tr. 24, Tr. 20.
This theme gets alternated with dance floor motifs with an ancient and popular flavor like Immagini Sfocate introduced in Tr. 2 (side B of the original single) and reprised in Tr. 14 and with a fox-trot (Tr. 6, Tr. 12).
For our CD presentation we have used the stereo master tape of the original single (MDF 117) issued in 1978 as well as the session master tapes mixed in mono and partially in full stereo.
An OST which deserved it to be rescued and preserved on CD.

Digitmovies is glad to release for the very first time on CD the complete OST in full stereo by the brothers Guido & Maurizio De Angelis from the movie comedy Il Sindacalista directed by Luciano Salce and starring Lando Buzzanca, Dominique Boschero, Renzo Montagnani, Paola Pitagora, Isabella Biagini, Gino Santercole, Fernando Cerulli, Piero Vida, Gastone Pescucci, Fortunato Arena, Enzo Sancrotti.

Saverio Ravizzi (Buzzanca), a Sicilian emigrated to the north, is a worker in the area of Bergamo.
By taking care of his workmates\' interests, he succeeds in getting the attention of his leader (Montagnani) and becomes a labor organizer.
For Saverio the troubles begin when the rumour goes around that the factory is going to be sold so that his friends start to turn their backs on him and treat him as someone who has been corrupted by the owners.

We succeeded in locating the master tapes of the original session in full stereo and also in very good condition, but we could also locate an album mock-up (here tracks 1-11, duration 28:44) prepared at the time of the film\'s release, but which never saw the light on the market then.
Besides that material we have added some extra tracks which bring our CD to a total time of 40:53.
The cool De Angelis brothers have written a hymn for the character of Saverio that is introduced during the Main Titles (Tr. 1), a cheerful march for orchestra and male choir and then reprised with ghostly voices with echo and reverb effects (Tr. 6), a vocal with words which appears in Tr. 7 and in Tr. 11, Tr. 12, Tr. 14, Tr. 17.
The main theme is reprised again in a popular arrangement with folk flavour (Tr. 4), in a sweet version performed by recorder (Tr. 9) and gets alternated with music in a more \"police\" mode (Tr. 2) and lounge music (Tr. 8, Tr. 15).
A delightful OST which deserved to be rescued and preserved for the joy of the fans of the De Angelis Bros. around the world.

Digitmovies issues for the very first time two till now unreleased scores by M° Stelvio Cipriani: Estratto Dagli Archivi Segreti Della Polizia Di Una Capitale Europea and Whirpool.

Estratto Dagli Archivi Segreti Della Polizia Di Una Capitale Europea was partially directed by the master of the Italian Gothic movie genre, Riccardo Freda but due to production problems, Freda abandoned the set and the movie was completed by Filippo Maria Ratti.
Despite the title which may recall a police movie, the movie is a real horror film.
Because of troubles with their car during a vacation, three guys and a girl are forced to spend the night in a villa, hosted by an ambiguous couple (Luigi Pistilli and Luciana Paluzzi) devoted to black masses.
The girl (Camille Keaton, known from I Spit On Your Grave) is going to be sacrificed during a ceremony, but her friends save her and carry her away while all of the sect adepts kill each other in the villa with unprecedented violence.
Later on, the guys little by little die in atrocious ways, only the girl will survive who will be confined to a clinic, but her existence will take a dramatic epilogue.
Powerful through the special effects by Carlo Rambaldi who gives his best in the bloody slaughter in the villa (heads cut in two parts by swords, decapitations, etc), the Freda/Ratti movie differs from the Gothic horror movies of that time both with regard to the mysterious elements (before leaving the villa, the guys stop at a gas station, but when they come back from the villa, the gas station seems to have been closed for years) and to the historic period the plot is set in: the early \'70s.
The only fault of the movie is the outlandish finale with the madhouse\'s doctor\'s very long explanation of the facts to the police including the esoteric part, without having ever been present during all the events.
A curiosity: in the Spanish version released on DVD, the final part of the doctor\'s explanation is missing.

Whirlpool is a Spanish movie shot in 1970 by director José Larraz and released some years later in Italy with the title Perversion Flash starring Karl Lanchbury, Vivian Neves and Pia Andersson.
The movie is a good erotic thriller with strong morbid elements.
In an house an aunt, her nephew and a friend delight in erotic games.
A girl is involved in this relationship; when the situation becomes dangerous, murder is the only solution.
The lake location, several macabre elements (dolls tied on the walls, the photo of a screaming girl), a good direction and decent actors make this movie a real jewel of the Iberian thriller genre.

For this CD we could use the stereo master tapes of the original sessions which gave us the chance to realize a product for the joy of the genre enthusiasts.
For Estratto Dagli Archivi Segreti Della Polizia Di Una Capitale Europea Stelvio Cipriani has written little, but effective music based on a beat ballad with a bizarre text sung by male voice, introduced during the Main Titles (Tr. 1) and then reprised with instrumental variations in Tr. 2, Tr. 3, Tr. 4, Tr. 5, Tr. 9, Tr. 10, Tr. 11.
Cipriani has composed another main theme with a Gothic flavour which we can hear performed by church organ in Tr. 6, Tr. 7, Tr. 12, but which reaches its apotheosis in the version for piano and symphonic orchestra for the bloody slaughter at the villa sequence (also used for the trailer) in Tr. 8.
For Whirpool Stelvio Cipriani has written a dark and romantic theme introduced in the Main Titles performed by a big orchestra with female vocalisms and beat rhythms (Tr. 13).
Suspenseful and mysterious atmospheres are obtained through organ, harpsichord, rhythmics and strings in Tr. 14, Tr. 18, Tr. 20, Tr. 24, Tr. 25, Tr. 26.
The main theme returns in Tr. 19 and in the conclusive Finale (Tr. 32).
The suspense in the movie is broken up by a lively shake dance floor (Tr. 22).
Two OSTs properly rescued and preserved on CD devoted to M° Stelvio Cipriani which will make so happy his fans and the fans of the horror and noir genres.

Digitmovies is glad to release for the very first time on a double CD set the complete original soundtracks - in mono as well as in full stereo - from the movie Una Su Tredici directed in 1969 by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani and starring Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Sharon Tate (in her last movie role before brutally murdered), Terry Thomas, Vittorio De Sica, Mylène Demongeot, Ottavia Piccolo, Mimmo Poli, Edda Albertini, Luigi Bonos, Corrado Olmi, Tom Felleghy, Piero Gerlini, John Steiner, Sandro Dori, Maurizio Fiorini, Marzio Margine.
No, we are not wrong in writing with the plural even if we refer to the same movie.
In fact, for Una Su Tredici three composers have written the score:
for the Italian version Carlo Rustichelli, for the English language version Stelvio Cipriani and David Whitaker.

The plot is based on the novel The Twelve Chairs by Il\'ja Arnol\'dovic Il\'f and Evgenij Petrovic Petrov, on which Mel Brooks based another movie version in 1970.
Mario Beretti (Gassman) is a barber who had emigrated to New York.
His life is animated by the announcement that he is the only heir of an old British auntie.
So Mario rushes to England, but he only gets thirteen vintage chairs.
After he has sold them all to an antiquarian, he discovers that a fortune is hidden in one of them.
Helped by the beautiful Pat (Tate), he starts a frantic hunt throughout Europe, chasing the new buyers and being involved in incredible adventures and chases between London and Italy.

CD 1 (38:05) contains the complete OST in full stereo by Carlo Rustichelli for the Italian version from the master tapes of the original session.
The composer has written a burlesque Can-Can theme with a Belle Epoque flavor for choir (I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni) and orchestra which is introduced in Titoli Di Testa (Tr. 1) and reprised in Finale (Tr. 12).
The funny side of the plot is well-rendered through organ passages accompanied by the orchestra which once again lets the listener hear the well-known Rustichelli sound that all his fans around the world appreciate (Tr. 2, Tr. 3, Tr. 7, Tr. 8, Tr. 10, Tr. 11).
This funny motif is alternated with jazzy music for suspense scenes (Tr. 5), a lounge-style love theme (Tr. 6, Tr. 9) and a wild dance floor beat shake with choir (Tr. 4).
As a bonus track we include the demo version of the main theme in mono.

CD 2 (66:06) contains the complete OST by Stelvio Cipriani and David Whitaker for the English language version from the mono and full stereo master tapes of the original sessions.
Stelvio Cipriani and David Whitaker have created a score with a perfect Swinging London style as background to the crazy chases of Vittorio Gassman and Sharon Tate.
Whitaker has composed two really cool orchestral shake music themes:
one opens and closes the movie (Tr. 1, Tr. 23) played by a beat ensemble accompanied by a symphonic orchestra, the other, after a classical introduction, features a wild performance of the orchestra as background to the desperate effort of rescuing the chair with the rich heritage inside (Tr. 6).
Cool Stelvio Cipriani has underscored the love affair between Mario and Pat with a sweet love theme (Tr. 4, Tr. 5, Tr. 8) alternated with bossa beat music (Tr. 2, Tr. 7, Tr. 13, Tr. 17, Tr. 19) and lounge dance floor themes (Tr. 10, Tr. 12, Tr. 16, Tr. 18, Tr. 20, Tr. 21).
As bonus tracks we include several full stereo mixes which we could discover on the original master tapes.
A proper rescue and preservation on a double CD set as a tribute to a movie and its three composers.

The Most Complete Anthology ever released on Maestro Ennio Morricone.
The definitive box released on occasion of the 80th birthday of the Italian Soundtrack Maestro.
Including only original versions of his best works grouped in 7 different categories.
All the pieces have been selected by Morricone himself

Box 15 Cds

description
GDM Music presents the most complete anthology devoted to Ennio Morricone ever released in the world, the result of 6 months working with the direct supervision of Maestro and published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

The work consists of an elegant BOX containing 15 CDs Digipack, the intent is to represent the entire career of Ennio Morricone, as a composer of absolute music and applied as arranger and music for orchestra.

MUSIC FOR CINEMA:
The best themes drawn from soundtracks for films, in chronological order, by \"Il Federale\" (1961) up to unpublished soundtrack \"Risoluzione 812\" (2008), for a total of 168 tracks in original version.

MUSIC FOR TELEVISION:
The soundtracks composed by Maestro for television for a total of 38 songs in original version.

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC:
6 big compositions of absolute music.

ORIGINAL SONGS:
18 songs composed by Morricone in original versions

CD 14: ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS
The orchestral arrangements of famous musical themes for a total of 16
tracks.

CD 15 HIT SONGS ARRANGEMENTS:
16 great pop successes of the 60s arranged by Maestro, in original versions


Also includes some new tracks or re-edit/remastered tracks, including \"Deborah\'s theme\" from \"C\'era una volta in America\" reinterpreted for this occasion by Edda Dell\'Orso.

Limited edition of 500 copies

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The Italian \"directing siblings\" Paolo and Vittorio Taviani were responsible for this intriguing slice of working-class life.
Saverio Marconi plays Giovanni, a Milan youth who heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property.
Giovanni falls in with several smalltown \"rebels\", including clerk Eugenia (Isabelle Rosselini in her film debut) and activist Enzo (Michele Placido).
A romantic triangle ensues, followed by grandiose dreams of establishing a Utopian youth society until Reality makes a wake-up call.
The Tavianis had originally wanted to film The Meadow with amateur actors, but ultimately gave up trying to coax workable performances from these novices and went with professionals.
The film was released in Italy as Il Prato.

Cast:
Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Giulio Brogi, Patrizia Terreno, Angela Goodwin, Luigi Mezzanotte, Remo Remotti

Directors:
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

10 new original music tracks never released before

story

This hokey Italian monster movie, distributed in the U.S. through Roger Corman\'s New World Pictures under the title Screamers, was rescued from certain cinematic obscurity thanks to New World\'s hilariously misleading one-sheet campaign, which boldly declared \"WARNING!
You will actually see a man turned inside out!
Caveat Emptor, viewers... there is nothing of the sort on display in the film itself.
All that\'s available is a silly sci-fi story about diabolical mad scientist Joseph Cotten busily turning the inhabitants of a remote island into water-breathing fishmen to serve the island\'s sadistic overlord (Richard Johnson), who is trying to uncover the lost treasures of Atlantis.
On hand as the nominal sex interest is Barbara Bach as Cotten\'s daughter, who possesses some sort of telepathic contact with the fishmen, but mainly just poses as seductively as possible while feeding and tending to the rubber-suit mutants.
Corman inserted some new prologue footage with Mel Ferrer for the New World print, as well as a few gory scenes intended to snag some R-rated exploitation appeal, but the end product is still laughable as ever.

Cast:
Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Beryl Cunningham, Joseph Cotten, Franco Iavarone, Roberto Posse, Giuseppe Castellano, Franco Mazzieri

Director:
Sergio Martino

GDM Music releases on CD the OST composed by Ennio Morricone for the movie directed in 1997 by Franco and Sergio Citti and starring Fiorello, Franco Citti, Elide Melli, Olimpia Carlisi, Ermanno Castriota, Guerrino Crivello, Barbara De Pace.

The plot is placed in a fantastic \"Happy Village\" lived by funny and fascinating characters, everyone with his own characteristic of comic and magic poetry.
Anyway they live all in harmony.
In this dreamy atmosphere Salvatore (Fiorello) arrives, nephew of that Totò who made flying on the brooms a gang of poor people into Milan\'s sky.
His presence makes more magic the situation.
Through a liquid he brings with himself in some coloured small bottle that makes dreams come true of all the Happy Village\'s inhabitants.

Ennio Morricone did succeed to represent musically all the sweet and sad, funny and comic, magic and mysterious sides of this story that winks to the Italian Neorealism Cinema, writing a cheerful little march with popular flavor alternated to extremely romantic and sometimes sad themes.
For the making of this special edition CD the stereo master tapes of the original session were used that gave the chance to release the complete version of a much requested score, all digitally restored and remastered.