★★★★★
Normally I'd baulk at quoting from one of my own interviews with a bona fide musical legend just to make a point in a review for fear of being branded a terrible name dropper. But seeing as some of the quotes I was toying with using already seem to have mysteriously made their way into the liner notes of this excellent box of eight reissued Italian soundtracks by Ennio Morricone, I don't feel quite so gauche...
- thequietus.com
2013-02-15
★★★★★
Despite having composed over 500 movie soundtracks in the past 40 years, Ennio Morricone is really only known for his works in one genre: the spaghetti western. Most of the compilations of his music to date have focuses almost exclusively on this mid-'60s output. And even then, it is the soundtrack to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that most quickly rolls off the tongue when you mention Morricone...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Summary: Vintage Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef coupled with Ennio Morricone makes for on hell of a joyride. For A Few Dollars More is undoubtedly my favorite chapter of the famed Man With No Name trilogy...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2009-11-19
★★★★★
"It came down from space, driven and lifted by forces men haven't discovered," wrote John W. Campbell Jr. in the 1938 short story "Who Goes There?" Second-in-Command McReady, "a figure from some forgotten myth, a looming, bronze statue that held life, and walked," continues for the men of this doomed Antarctic mission: "So it crashes, and this guy, whoever he is, gets thrown out, and ends up freezing," he explains in the final-draft screenplay to John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
With gun-toting Clint Eastwood staring quizzically out from the sleeve, this LP was often seen in carboot sales and Oxfam shops in the 1980s. It certainly offered something of a contrast to the nearby Geoff Love and Max Bygraves LPs and copies of The Henry Root Letters, sending the unwitting listener into a savage, operatic arena of dust, blood and granite-faced nemesis...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza musica su schemi cramps records founded in italy between 1964 and 1965, the world's first composers collective, gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza, sought to unhem the purposefulness of their respective instruments and the primacy of composition in order to open up a space for the emergence of free music and unintentional noise sounds. the music sways between nearly inaudible whir, clatter and scrape and bubbling blasts of sound...
- www.mimaroglumusicsales.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
genre: avantgarde, free improvisation format: 2 cd+1 dvd deluxe box description: deluxe boxed set, three individual digipak, a 72-pages italian-english booklet and a poster il gruppo was a brilliant and prolific composer's collective exploring extended techniques and new sound sources through the medium of improvisation. although very much a product of its time, their music remains timeless...
- www.mimaroglumusicsales.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Ennio Morricone is the once, present, and future king. The Italian composer's palette includes the kitschy twang of his spaghetti Western scores, experimental textures, bittersweet melodies, and lush romanticism. A Fistful of Film Music: The Ennio Morricone Anthology is an adventure in lovable campiness and stylistic sweep. Hundredsof scores into the game, he's still going strong.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Musique concrète, cubistjazz, surreal lounge-rock, orgasmic vocals: Crime and Dissonance is not your mother'sEnnio Morricone. The two-disc set focuses on the legendary composer'sfree-form experimentalism of late-'60s/early-'70s Italian cinema. Trackslike "Memento Riereazione Diverdita" are demented movies for your ears.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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