Musica Per Immagini

05/04/2024

It's Bandcamp friday! Book a copy of "New York City" by Gruppo Sound, out in a couple of weeks, and discover or rediscover some of the previous releases, fully supporting the label.

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/

27/03/2024

In two weeks, we will participate at the 58th edition of the largest record fair in the world, organized by RecordPlanet, together with our friends of the Roman store Music Machine and, above all, a bunch of label's records, available at stalls 250, 251 and 252.

Save the date! 📅

https://www.facebook.com/events/311334931763385

25/03/2024

The discography of the phantom Gruppo Sound exceeds over thirty titles published in an undefined time frame between the Eighties and the Nineties. However, there is very little information about this curious pseudonym. it is possible to find a library music album by Gruppo Sound inside the Canopo, Deneb, Flower, Monosound Records and Teams catalogues, all managed by FlipperMusic publishing group, but both the creators and the musicians have never been the same. Gruppo Sound is only a collective name, maybe to identify a certain number of 'new' productions characterized by an electronic background and, not by chance, the author of “New York City” is a single artist, the multi-instrumentalist Gabriele Ducros. Son of the prolific composer Remigio Ducros, he first followed his footsteps in the field of music libraries and soundtracks and then become the author of many tracks for television commercials of a certain relevance, winning some international awards.

“Some of these tracks may have been associated with a pornographic film. Others were, however, made as brief comments for a theatrical show, perhaps never made”, remembers Gabriele Ducros. What unites the thirteen pieces is the same musical language, which derives from a widespread funk and jazz matrix. Both genres are thus declined through a different approach and taste, in line with the fusion trends of the time, when the early synthesizers were used by few artists. A handful of electric guitar notes for a 'urban' mood, the acoustic ones from a dreamy morning awakening. Electronic keyboards to arouse a sense of nostalgia in the listener, while flute and saxophone always punctuate different atmospheres. A computer melody, a theme for children and a sophisticated ode to the fusion sound of the Big Apple, perhaps true source of ispiration of the work. “New York City” is not a concept album, but one of the best cross-sections of Gabriele Ducros' great creativity.

Music by Gabriele Ducros (Gruppo Sound)
Remastering by Giuliano Radiciotti at studiomastering.it
Cover by Beon Dsgn

Pre-order your copy on Bandcamp: https://shorturl.at/aoM19

02/02/2024

Bandcamp Friday! Discover amazing artists, Italian composers, limited records, etc: open your ♥️… and support Musica Per Immagini!

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/

31/01/2024

Deutsche Rezension veröffentlicht im Magazin HHV Records von Michael Zangerl zur neuesten release „Polarlys“ des italienischen Musikers Heinrich Dressel. Tausend Dank!

https://www.hhv-mag.com/review/heinrich-dressel-polarlys/

30/01/2024

Italian only review by the director of ColonneSonore.net, Massimo Privitera, of the latest release of our catalogue, the concept album "Polarlys" by Heinrich Dressel. Thank you!

https://www.colonnesonore.net/recensioni/cinema/9685-polarlys.html

29/01/2024

Heinrich Dressel's "Polarlys" selected among the best releases of January 2024 by Clone Records. A great start for us!

https://clone.nl/charts/Clone/2239

26/01/2024

A recommended content for Italian users or, for those who are familiar with our native language. The episode 243 of Dannata Balera was broadcast two days ago on Radio Città Pescara Popolare Network 97.8 / 88.9 MHz frequencies and in video streaming on YouTube. An opportunity to tell a little about how Musica Per Immagini was born and how it works and, above all, to listen to some good tracks from our ever-expanding catalogue.

24/01/2024

Marco Ferretti is going to be guest of Italian radio transmission Dannata Balera to explain the activity of the label live on Radio Città Pescara Popolare Network 97.8 / 88.9 MHz, starting at 9.15 p.m. tonight. An additional opportunity to listen some tracks of our latest release, namely "Polarlys" by Heinrich Dressel.

Audio: www.radiocittapescara.it
Video: www.youtube.com//streams

23/01/2024

Any copies of Heinrich Dressel’s “Polarlys”?

Buy, get, or grab if you can, yours now!

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/album/polarlys

20/01/2024

Tonight - 21:00 CIT on Intergalactic FM - The Dream Machine: special preview of Heinrich Dressel’s new album "Polarlys" inspired by a Georges Simenon's novel out January 20th.

Album preview from Heinrich Dressel's new album "The Mystery Of The Polarlys" out January 20th on Musica Per Immagini. The music is inspired on Georges Simenon's novel of the same title.

17/01/2024

"The ship was nothing prestigious. It was a steamer of a thousand tons, smelling of cod and its deck always cluttered with goods, which covered the route between Hamburg and Kirkenes, along the Norwegian coast and making a stopover even in the smallest ports.

Mixed ship, it could accommodate up to fifty first-class and as many third-class passengers. It brought machinery, fruit and salted meats to Norway. It returned loaded with barrels of cod, bear skins and seal oil from the far north. Up to the Lofoten Islands the weather was normal.

Then, suddenly, it plunged into ice and in a three months long night”

Heinrich Dressel’s “Polarlys", a soundtrack inspired by the book “The Mystery of the Polarlys” (1932) by Georges Simenon, out next 22 January.

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/album/polarlys

12/01/2024

Musica Per Immagini is about to go beyond vinyl reissues of soundtracks and music libraries, with a brand new series of products. From 2024 onwards, it will release a series of albums of contemporary and electronic music often "inspired by" different sources, both sonic, if not literary and cinematographic. A way to embrace the future without forgetting the past.

Heinrich Dressel's “Polarlys” is the first album of unreleased tracks published by Musica Per Immagini, or a soundtrack for a imaginary noir film set in the icy waters of northern Europe, inspired by the book “The Mystery of the Polarlys” (1932) by Georges Simenon. Drones and ethereal atmospheres are paired with a cinematic background in order to describe the frost of the northern seas and the restlessness of the journey: beyond the classic analog sounds, a specific use of additive and vector synthesis particularly in vogue during the Nineties and typical of vintage synthesizers.

Music by Heinrich Dressel
Remastering by Giuliano Radiciotti at studiomastering.it
Cover by Beon Dsgn
Pre-order your copy on Bandcamp: https://shorturl.at/flnqv

23/10/2023

Our releases on vinyl of the soundtracks of "La Settima Donna", "Fatevi Vivi: La Polizia Non Interverrà", "Sono Stato Un Agente CIA", signed by Roberto Pregadio, and Stelvio Cipriani, carefully reviewed by ColonneSonore.net inside the "Pillole Di Note" section. Thank you, Massimo Privitera!

http://www.colonnesonore.net/recensioni/cinema/9410-pillole-di-note-focus-sull-etichetta-musica-per-immagini.html

04/09/2023

“La Settima Donna” (1978), also known as “The Last House On The Beach”, is a disturbing thriller directed by Franco Prosperi and set in a secluded cottage overlooking the Tyrrhenian sea, starring Florinda Bolkan, in the role of Sister Cristina, governess of five female students on a short vacation, rehearsing their Shakesperean end-of-year play. The unfortunate inhabitants of the house became soon hostages of three vicious criminals looking for a hiding place after a bank robbery, but the psychological and sexual violence ends when the nun abandons her vows. And the victims decide to get justice. Roberto Pregadio's brilliant music is not surprisingly, functional and almost disconnected from the bloody images: there is no overwhelming sense of disturbance for the listener.

The soundtrack of “La Settima Donna” was published only once, in cd format, attached to the rare dvd of the film, gaining new life on vinyl thanks to Musica Per Immagini. Some of the eleven tracks of the score are characterised by an easy listening mood and united by a psychedelic feel, in harmony with the progressive atmospheres found in albums such as “A Saucerful Of Secrets” (1968) and “Meddle” (1971) by Pink Floyd. However, the English band is not the only reference for the jazz pianist, who quotes a piece by Bryan Ferry, entrusting it to the voice of Ray Lovelock, one of the three kidnappers. After that, the Sicilian composer remodels an international hit by Donna Summer, background of the sequence in which the nun is forced to strip naked in front of her tormentors.

Text by Marco Ferretti

Remastering by Giuliano Radiciotti at studiomastering.it

Cover restoration by Beon Dsgn

Pre-order your copy on Bandcamp: https://shorturl.at/flK01

07/04/2023

Step by step, one by one…

31/03/2023

Joel Vandroogenbroeck's first vinyl repress edition of "L'Immagine Del Suono" out in two weeks.

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/album/limmagine-del-suono

23/03/2023

The new Play Morricone For Me: Film Soundtrack Radio podcast is about Italian crime soundtracks featuring some tracks by Detto Mariano, Franco Micalizzi, Stelvio Cipriani and Piero Piccioni taken from our vinyl releases.

https://www.mixcloud.com/PlayMorriconeForMe/play-morricone-for-me-32223-poliziotteschi-potluck/

16/03/2023

For those who love psychedelic sounds, Joel Vandroogenbroeck's "L'Immagine Del Suono" is the right album for you. Musica Per Immagini is going to offer you the chance to enter the world of an arranger, conductor, producer and, above all, a unique multi-instrumentalist, also famous for being the only permanent member of the group and the main promoter of its creativity, often renewed with the contribution of exotic instruments. At the dawn of the Seventies, this versatile musician began a parallel life as a composer of singular music libraries tailored to comment documentary images. And “L'Immagine Del Suono” was one of them, originally released by Italy's Flirt Records. As often happened, this amazing album circulated, however, unnoticed in a limited number of copies among insiders, only rediscovered later by fans, thus raising the Belgian artist as a real pioneer of ambient and new age music.

It is appropriate to consider the twelve pieces of “L'Immagine Del Suono” as a continuous and visionary experiment, with the addition of electronic gasps, a strong dose of psychedelia, fragments of synthesized jazz, all coming from experiences both internal and external, hallucinatory and hedonistic. All of this combined creates a mysterious and abstract hybrid. Sonic raw material is sculpted with artisanal care, at times twisted and cryptic, characterized by a transversal irony, to the point that the interference of rock elements in the course of the set divert the listener's attention and momentarily interrupt the flow of consciousness. “L'Immagine Del Suono” is an example of the avant-garde, free from categorization of any kind, developed in a non-commercial key and, equally, is drawn from a direct line via what was expressed within the folds of the then contemporary works of Brainticket.

Joel Vandroogenbroeck's "L'Immagine Del Suono" will be out on 14th April. Pre-order your copy on Bandcamp: https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/album/limmagine-del-suono

09/02/2023

For those who love hip hop breaks, lounge atmospheres, explosive action music and mysterious tubular bells.

Piero Piccioni's majestic “Fatevi Vivi, La Polizia Non Interverrà” soundtrack for the very first time on vinyl out February 28.

https://musicaperimmagini.bandcamp.com/album/fatevi-vivi-la-polizia-non-interverra

03/02/2023

Two weeks ago we had the chance to speak live at the microphone of CinematiCA - Suoni da e per il Cinema hosted by Gianmarco Diana.

We had a very nice phone conversation about Musica Per Immagini, listening to some tracks from our latest releases on vinyl such as “Sono Stato Un Agente CIA” by Stelvio Cipriani and “Atmospheres” by our beloved Piero Umiliani.

Then we introduced our repress of “Tra Scienza E Fantascienza” by the Florence composer. Do you want more? If yes, stay tuned and don’t miss the upcoming RADIO X podcasts…

In questo episodio: un piccolo speciale dedicato all’etichetta Musica per Immagini, con Marco Ferretti in collegamento telefonico e diversi estratti dalle più recenti uscite della label, con la colonna sonora di Stelvio Cipriani per “Sono stato un agente CIA” (1978) di Romolo Guerrieri (per l...

02/02/2023

Early Italian review of Moggi/Piero Umiliani’s “Tra Scienza E Fantascienza” on NFO - No Fade Out.

Immaginare mondi futuri ed ipotetici per proiettarvi il nostro e meglio descriverlo è una raffinata operazione nella quale la fantascienza è impegnata sin dai suoi inizi. Che la fantascienza rifletta di volta in volta...

11/01/2023

Our upcoming remastered reissue of Piero Umiliani's "Tra Scienza E Fantascienza" is also available in a limited edition on colored vinyl at HHV Records. Grab your copy before it's too late!

Thank you Sebastian Hinz!

»Tra Scienza E Fantascienza«, Piero Umiliani’s futuristic jam, gets a new edition

22/12/2022

See you in 2023 with the official reissue of Moggi/Piero Umiliani’s electronic and space-age masterpiece “Tra Scienza E Fantascienza”.

27/05/2022

“Atmospheres” is one of his most interesting Piero Umiliani's albums, published in a limited edition in the mid-Seventies. A period of musical confusion even though not for him, who had always been eclectic. The charming soundtracks for Luigi Scattini's documentaries were already behind him, as was the great orchestral jazz production: his career had already been long and full of professional satisfactions. The present for the composer consisted of the scores for a number of Italian comedies and, most all, a set of sonorizations. These appeared projected into the future, thanks to their avant-garde attitude and the electronic sounds which seemed to arrive from a parallel universe.

The sixteen tracks of “Atmospheres” belong to this group of works which were not tied to specific cinema projects, where the composer's incredible imprint is at its height. In all this creative freedom it is clear how the titles of several pieces pointed to specific thematic suggestions, so that they could instantly be adopted by producers and documentary film editors. A choice that is not accidental. Just like that of Musica Per Immagini which continues to select hidden treasures from the rich catalog of the maestro to be reprinted for the first time in over forty years, remastering them from the original tapes.

30/01/2020

Italian composer Piero Piccioni celebrated in Il Dio Sotto La Pelle reissue

The Vinyl Factory pays homage to the work of Musica Per Immagini and our partners in crime SONOR Music Editions on the forthcoming restored and renewed 2x12'' edition of "Il Dio Sotto La Pelle" by the legendary .

📌 This long awaited release will be officially unveiled on Sunday at Music Day Roma - Fiera del Disco Roma.

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/ipiero-piccioni-new-reissue-dio-sotto-la-pelle-vinyl/

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28/01/2020

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19/01/2020

Musica Per Immagini and SONOR Music Editions are proud to present the reissue of "Il Dio Sotto La Pelle" by Piero Piccioni, an amazing soundtrack for the 1974 documentary directed by Folco Quilici and Carlo Alberto Pinelli.

Released on a double LP set and remastered from the first generation master tapes, including 12 restored unreleased tracks, this sought-after score released for the first time twenty years ago will be enriched with new graphics inspired by the original posters and designed by the great Luca Barcellona with Marco Ferretti's liner notes.

Limited edition 500 copies. Remastered and supervised by Claudio Fuiano. Sequenced by Lorenzo Fabrizi.

Release date: 02.02.2020, plus official presentation at Music Day Roma - Fiera del Disco Roma.

18/01/2020

Luca Barcellona's lettering for our upcoming release, "Il Dio Sotto La Pelle", a Piero Piccioni soundtrack. Masterpiece!

16/01/2020

CinematiCA, suoni da e per il cinema / EP. #203 | RADIO X

A new episode of CinematiCA - Suoni da e per il Cinema, another song by taken from our first album, "Sounds From The Far Space", offered to the listeners of RADIO X. This time the choice of always careful Gianmarco Diana fell on the cosmic 'ballad' UFO!

https://www.radiox.it/musica/cinematica/cinematica-suoni-da-e-per-il-cinema-ep-203/

In questo episodio: musicisti e direttori d'orchestra italiani tra jazz, musica leggera e colonne sonore: omaggio al clarinettista Gianni Sanjust (1934-2020) ed ai pianisti Ettore Ballotta e Fran