Teasing the Korean Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 Let's discuss. As a Morricone freak, I had discovered them via the score for the giallo "The Cold Eyes of Fear." I just picked up their 1960s RCA LP "The Private Sea of Dreams." I have not spun it yet. Any fans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 I am; that's a great album. Have many of their CDs...there is a nice Die Schactel box set worth checking out that has a DVD component as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 18, 2015 Report Share Posted May 18, 2015 More thoughts later; very interesting ensemble, if not always successful. The boxed set is highly recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corto maltese Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) Recent reissues of some of their soundtracks seem to market them as a proto-krautrock or even avant-funk band, but that's only a minor part of the story. Also, their name ("Nuovo Consonanza") might be misleading, because their music has nothing whatsoever to do with more recent "new consonant" or "new simplicity" trends in classical music. For me their mix of avant-garde composition techniques and free improvisation made them one of the most interesting à nd successfull exponents of the incredibly fertile Italian new music scene of the 1960s. I'm a big fan, obviously. "The private sea of dreams" is actually a reissue of their untitled first album, issued a couple of years earlier -much more attractively packaged!- in Italy. Edited May 20, 2015 by corto maltese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 I've a compilation '1967-1975' on Editions RZ and a reissue of 'Musici su Schemi' both of which I find rewarding but irregular listens. I'd be interested to hear of what those in the know think are worth investigating next. There does seem to be a number of recent vinyl reissues kicking around at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 "The private sea of dreams" is actually a reissue of their untitled first album, issued a couple of years earlier -much more attractively packaged!- in Italy. Right, the Italian RCA pressing was a superb-looking gatefold. There's a nice one on Deutsche Grammophon that came out as part of one of those Avant-garde boxed sets in the late '60s. Would like to get the General Music and Cinevox LPs at some point, but they're quite spendy - I've heard them and they are nice. Some tracks made it onto the Edition RZ CD, which I have boxed up somewhere. The Cramps LP is really good too, albeit more compositionally-structured than improvised; the sidelong piece on the second side is especially deep. I like The Feed-Back (RCA Victor), recently reissued, but it's of a very different ilk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 For many, many years I searched for "the feedback". Was quite happy with the recent reissue and it certainly saved me a ton of cash! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corto maltese Posted May 23, 2015 Report Share Posted May 23, 2015 In the liner notes of John Zorn's Morricone tribute album (The Big Gundown), there's something about the avant garde guitar scraping and screaming that might even make Morricone nervous. I've always found that funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ombudsman Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I'm a fan as well. I think I have everything on LP except the Cinevox album (which I have on CD). I've noticed some of the recent LPs have gone out of print and become expensive pretty quickly, so I would suggest picking up the reissue of the General Music album if anyone has been on the fence about it. I am hoping the interest leads to a vinyl reissue of the Cinevox album. The re (?) issued soundtrack of a Quiet Day in the County was well done and it's a pretty great movie too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corto maltese Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Welcome, Ombudsman! The movie you're referring to is actually called "A Quiet Place in the Country" (Un tranquillo posto di campagna). According to Dusty Groove the soundtrack was "a rare collaboration" between Morricone and the Gruppo... (not making this up; check their website). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Ha - Morricone LIVED for scraping and clattering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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