Italy

Marcello Giombini (1928 - 2003)

How do you make a blog about Italian Movie Music. First, you start with Ennio Morricone's OST from 'C'era Una Volta Il West'. Defining and iconic Italian Movie Music. It made film music into an art of its own. Ennio did many more great film musics; it was basically his job and he was best.

Then you research history and check the Italian movies from the 1960's until the 1980's and you find some names. Italian film production was high in those days and some composers were specializing in this type of. Some OST music just gives you the shivers, because you know the movie and the story. Director Rugero Deodato was arrested for this movie and Riz Ortolani did the music for 'Cannibal Holocaust'.

Marcello Giombini (1928 - 2003) is another name that pops up very regurlaly. He did the music for very many Italio Sleazers and Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960's. I don't have an empeethree or an OST from Marcello. But when you search this blog for 'Lee Van Cleef' movies, you can hear his sounds, promise.

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Joseph

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) looking very cool.
Did you noticed the Black and White tones in the picture?

On your right-hand side you can find some of my favorites. The latest entry in the Music Department has many free .flac music [uncompressed, high quality, big files]. I stick to all the .mp3 formats for my daily music. But for exceptional and classical music the .flac format is my choice; put up the volume and your headphone.

This site has many more to offer. Their HQ music (in several styles) is an amazing treat.

The .ogg format is about the same as the .flac format and also plays fine in my WinAmp player. The .ape format is also an uncompressed music format, but does NOT play in my favorite player. Oh well, different styles, many smiles.

Here is the 30MB. Overture track from Joseph Haydn’s opera L’infedeltà delusa (“Deceit Outwitted”) in .flac format.

The full opera can be found here on this great site .

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Sisters

June Pointer [1953-2006] - photo by Donna Zweig

I'm sure that I blogged these Sisters before. I never went to many concerts but this was a great exception. I saw them many years ago in the Amsterdam Concert Building. You should take a carefull listen, and you will agree this is steaming hot and sexy music. And the most amazing story is that it has some relation with gospel.

As children the girls were encouraged to sing gospel music by their parents; Rev. Elton and Mrs. Sarah Pointer, but in their household they were told rock & roll and the blues were 'the devil's music', and it was only when they were away from their watchful parents that they could sing these styles of music. They regularly sang at the church but as they grew older their love of other styles of music began to grow.

When June brought home a copy of the Elvis Presley record 'All Shook Up', she was surprised that her mother allowed her to play it, until she discovered that her mother had been pacified by the B-side of the record 'Crying in The Chapel'.

Their 'Fire' song is exeptional - it has a few moments of silence - the most sexy silence you've ever heard. It's from Their Greates Hits album.

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Joyce

Joyce Hatto in 1970

On September 17, 2007 there was an amazing 12 page story in The New Yorker about "Goddess" pianist Joyce Hatto [1928-2006]. She started playing the piano at age 5, she did many concerts, but didn't published any recordings. Around 2002 her husband/producer posted some of her music in internet-groups. The music was much praised and hyped by many famous critics. Then she started to publish up to 120 CDs, all were produced by her husband's company.
Then some people started wondering. It turned out that many (maybe all) recordings were from other famous pianists. This great hoax made a fool of many so-called music critics. A wonderful story, but "her" music nonetheless sounds great ... he-he-he.
- some great sounding Chopin Walzes here, here and here
- a 98MB. file with 20 of "her" Chopin Waltzes was provided by Alan Cooper

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Nova

Elena Zhornik getting crazy

Iva Nova is an all-female quintet that has been formed in St.Petersburg, Russia in 2002. Introducing: singer Nastya Postnikova, Inna Lishenkevich on guitar, Elena Zhornik on accordion, Ekaterina Grigoryeva on bass, and Katherina Fyodorova on drums. They have been called all kind of names; rock, ska, punk, folk, world-music and the lot.
Their music is inspired by their native culture. They write original songs, rooted in traditional Russian and Slavic music. It is fast, fun, and very danceable. One of the most exciting things from Russia in quite some time.

Ива Нова "Ведьма" [Iva Nova "The Witch"], a 2007 live performance

A hot Spanish-like song in Russian language is here
An 11-track compilation of their music is here
Their website is here

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Muvrini

I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language. Corsica is a Mediterranean island [Island of Beauty] south of, and part of France. It's native language has North-African and Italian influences. I Muvrini has a little official site with a nice music clip.

More information at wiki. Their album A Strada from 2000 is about 70MB. A typical sample song from this album.

More traditional Corsican music is the Polyphonic song (pulifunie, a 4-6 voice a cappella style). They can be either spiritual or secular. Funeral songs (lamentu) are an example of the former, while nanna (lullabies) is an example of secular songs.

More information at wiki. The album Polyphoniques Corses is about 45MB. and has four tracks of I Muvrini. A first song of this album is from them.

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Grass

Sisters Jessica, Megan and Rebecca Lovell are carrying-on the Blue Grass traditional sounds

A special music blog for my lil nephew – all great music. You can find a lot of music on my blog, from my nephew. My nephew will now hunt for the Lovell Sisters albums. You just sit still and wait.

USA Blue Grass Music is very straight and potent. It is pre-country and it originates from the USA 1930’s crisis, with some roots in the 1920’s. I like to translate “Blue Grass” into “From Scratch”.

Here are just some great songs that makes me jump;
- The Stanley Brothers – Masters of Banjo Picking [.mp3]
- Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Banjo & Fiddle Frenzy [.mp3]
- Dueling Banjo’s From ‘The Deliverance’ film [.tube]
- A Lovell Sisters performance [.tube]

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Sisters

From left to right; Rebecca, Jessica and Megan

Have you seen my previous blog? There was some real girl power that hit me between the eyes. I am in love again. This is a 10-track music video blog of the Lovell Sisters - Live at The Philidelphia Folk Festival in 2007. Their best performance that I have seen so far.

They call their music "progressive acoustics". It has roots in USA Blue Grass and Country music. I like it; it's clean-cut and staight-to-the-bellly. And the looks of the girls also helps.

Jessica is the elder sis. She does the talking and she plays the violin. About 25 years ago I was in love with another Jessica.

Megan sounds like Tegan (another favorite couple of mine). She is the blond middle sis and she plays a kind-of steel guitar.

Rebecca is the young sis. She has the tattoos and she plays some type of electro banjo.

Here are the cool music vids;
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 01/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 02/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 03/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 04/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 05/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 06/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 07/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 08/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 09/10.mpg
- Live at The Philadelphia Folk Festival - vid/track 10/10.mpg

- A Bonus Tube; Spanish Point

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Club Med

This is a new project. I will post a Mediterranean music tour. I had already had some stuff on my HD and now I found some more. It is generally called 'world-music' and this strange music sometimes just grabs you right by the balls / tits. I try to restrict myself to the surroundings of the Mediterranean Sea to keep it a manageable project; and it includes some of my belly dance favorites ... ;-)

You have to Wiki, Google and find additional information for yourself, because it's all pretty exotic stuff (they are world famous in their village). Here are just a few songs to let you know what to expect;

[1] This is the 20MB./8:00min. live Gajda song from the Macedonian Kocani Orkestar. The hottest parts are in the end.
[2] This is the polyphonic song Fiaccule_Di_Speranza from the I Muvrini band from the isle of Corsica. I blogged them before but most links are dead.
[3] Belo Platno is from South Serbia and makes some great folk music. Here is their Gugu Tino song.

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Spain

Cover, Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain, 1958

I have a lot of music but I don’t have the ‘Sketches of Spain’. I have it somewhere in my CD stuff out there. Someone killed my Miles Davis picture from Anton Corbijn. No trubble, I will correct, there are many pix around.

Now, from here, there are two directions to go; to post a great Miles Davis album or to post some sexy Spanish stuff. It’s actually a no-brainer; I’ll do both.

Ouch, this one always grabs me by the balls. Great vintage French movie music. One of Miles’s most famous sounds. This is just a few tracks. There is no official OST, because there are several versions. The music is a piece of art on its own, and the movie got somewhat in the background .

I know, I’m repeating myself, and enjoying myself, and it’s great music.

Asakumi

Asakumi Jinta, live, Austin Texas
There seems to be a lot of new and exiting things going on in Japanese popular music. The regular words and style-depictions pretty much fail to describe this kind of music - but I'll try. Here I want to introduce you to Asakumi Jinta - this group blew my mind. Sorry, there are virtually no empeethrees on the web and I could not find a wiki.
Asakumi Jinta is a 7 member band [male and female] from the Asakusa district in Tokyo - but they sound like a 21 member band. They call themselves Asianica Hard March Band. Their music style is a mix of rocakbilly, ska, up-tempo country, punk and Japanese Kenka and Kayokyoku from the 1930's (is this informative?).
Their base is Asakusa, Tokyo's old downtown, an area reminiscent of traditional Japan - you could think of New Orleans Jazz. They love this town and the people love the band as they are known as a marching band playing on the shopping streets or for week-long parades.
They are playing a modern style of music derived from the 1930s - actually it's much more than a '30s brass band - it plays in many different and mixed styles. Some songs are up-tempo country or rockabilly, but most of it is just frenetic klesmer. Just accordions and saxophones and trombones all playing lightning fast happy melodies while stand-up bass and drums and tubas throw down polka-style rhythms. Summary - this is a blow-your-brains-out never-heard-before sound, very energetic and dancaeble.
They have a MySpace where you can learn and hear more.

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Dollars

You have to dig deep into film history to explain why 'For A Few Dollars More' (1965, rated 8.2) didn't get the same cult status as 'Once Upon a Time' (1968, rated 8.7). Both from Sergio Leone, with Lee Van Cleef and Ennio Morricone's great music. They just swapped Clint Eastwood and Klaus 'Krazy' Kinsky for Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. Maybe it's CC, maybe it's Ennio's music, maybe it's Dario Argento & Bernardo Bertolucci (story) ...

'For A Few Dollars More' was the second in the Sergio, Clint & Ennio Trilogy. The first one was 'A Fistfull Of Dollars' (1964, rated 8.0) and the last one was 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' (1966, rated 9.0).

Clint Eastwood ('The Man With No Name') and Lee Van Cleef ('The Man In Black') portray two bounty hunters in pursuit of 'El Indio' (Gian Maria Volontè), one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories. One of his gang members is played by Klaus Kinski. Indio is a ruthless, intelligent man addicted to smoking cannabis. He has a musical pocketwatch that he plays whenever he wishes to kill someone. 'When the chimes finish, begin' he says, and sure enough when the music stops he shoots his victim. Through flashbacks we learn that Indio's pocketwatch (and perhaps his cannabis addiction) originates from a young woman who killed herself while being raped by Indio, after he finds her with her lover and kills him out of jealousy.

For A Few Dollars More (1965) part01.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part02.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part03.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part04.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part05.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part06.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part07.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part08.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part09.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part10.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part11.rar
For A Few Dollars More (1965) part12.rar

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part01.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part02.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part03.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part04.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part05.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part06.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part07.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part08.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part09.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part10.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part11.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part12.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part13.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part14.rar
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) part15.rar
Psw = neutralizer

All credits go to the original uploaders

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OST

Francesca Ciardi as Faye Daniels: You're wasting film! What are you going to do with this, make a porn movie?

There are only a few original soundtracks (OST's) of movies that are worth wild to have on your hard drive.

Once Upon A Time in The West is my all time favorite - the movie and Ennio Morricone's music are legendary.
- the imdb link
- the cover
- the man with the harmonica
- the album

The same goes for the Cannibal Holocaust movie. Riz Ortolani made the music for this [and many other] Über-Kult movie. Some of Riz' music was used by Quinten Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.
- the imdb link
- the cover
- the main theme
- the album

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Story

Don't get fooled by Tony, Chino, Riff or Bernardo. The movie is about Anita and Naria.

The other day I saw the West Side Story again. On widescreen in the EYE museum. Restored and digitized. The loud music was an extra spice to this event. Two-and-a-half hours of a top quality multi-media. A real treat. A must see.

The movie got 10 Oscars in 1962. The dances and the music are so great. Street-rap and immigrant topics. Still relevant in nowadays Holland and in the US of A. Did I mention Leonard Bernstein? Probably a legel immigrant. He is one of my favorites. He tried to explain Mahler to 12 yo. kids. No chance. So cute. There is nothing to explain. Lots to listen. LB made did the music for this movie. Classic, Jazz, Latin, a huge mix of great tunes.

The WSS is about the Jets and the Sharks. I guess you know the story. Testosterone driven street-gangs in New York. Even today a very hot topic. The WSS was [1] a musical on Broadway. Later [2] they made the movie. It's actually about the women. Don't get fooled by the men. This was sharp thinking. 10 Oscars. It's not about Riff and Bernardo. Even Tony and Chico are side-kicks. It's all about Anita and Maria. Girls have hormones too.

Anita (Rita Moreno, in purple dress, Puerto Rican, Shark-side) and Maria (Natalie Wood, in white dress, American, Jet-side) are the real heroins of this movie. In the end, they have a bond. Girls are in, boys are out. Riff, Bernardo, Tony and Chino all leave the movie prematurely and the girls survive.

• The 1961 trailer
• Maria feels pretty
• Anita loves America
• The full movie

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Leo

It looks like Leo is a physics student in Utrecht
He has some pretty good music around there
Just two links; you can find the rest yourself

[1]
A bunch of Beethoven's Piano Sonata's by Various Artists;
Backhaus, Brendel, Gilels and Richter
[tip: Backhaus sounds pretty tame/lame]
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~leow/Classical/Beethoven%20-%20Piano%20Sonatas/

[2]
The Segovia Collection; classic Spanish guitar music
by Andres Segovia. A 4xcd set in the big .flac format
about 1200 MB. in total - but great music
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~leow/Classic%20Guitar/The%20Segovia%20Collection/

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Gabriella

Gabriella Cilmi

Gabriella Cilmi is a 16 yo. singer/songwriter from Italian descent, born in Australia and now living in London. And there are a lot of hot music chicks in London today [Lilly, M.I.A., Duffy, Amy] where this type of culture is growing.

She hit my radar a few months ago for her good looks and her great songs. Gabriella sounds pretty 'normal' in her interviews; but that will probably change in a few months when the Paparazzi get hold of her.

On her first album she still is searching for her own sound. She got some mixed impact from Nina Simone, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and The Sweet. But that's OK when you're a 16 yo. start-up.

Go-Go-Gabriella!

- her 'Sweet' music vid in .avi format Sweet About Me
- another music vid from the tube
- her 'Terrifying' song from her debut album
- Gabriella's debut album

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Twist

The Twist was a brand new Afro/Rock/Latin dance/music in the early sixties. It was a sidetrack from or a version of the major rock'n'roll path.

Chubby Checker is probably the best known artist. I just post some of his music here, because it is so great and happy music.

Here is "The Twist"
Here is "La Bamba"
Here is "Limbo Rock"

Here is the full 24 track / 90MB. album
"Twisting The Limbo Hits Again"

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Glenn

Glenn Gould [1932–1982] was a Canadian pianist and proably the best one ever. He was noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Glenn gave up concert performances in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career. Both his recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations [in 1955 and 1981] are highlights in contemporary classic music. Some more informations at wiki

Glenn Gould plays Bach's piano concerto no.4 in A - BMV 1055 [the files are about 10-13-10-MB.]
1.Allegro
2.Larghetto
3.Allegro_ma_non_tanto

Glenn Gould plays Bach's Goldberg Variations - BMV 988 [the 1981 version - about 75MB.]
http://rapidshare.com/files/33149025/variations.rar
Variation 1 of 30 comes as a sample
http://rapidshare.com/files/33145577/02_Variation_1.mp3

Allways use a headphone for music. The Sennheiser PX100 is a best-buy light weight for around 50 bucks.

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Mick

Bill and Mick get connected - but not before camera

Music and sex is a pretty natural combination. You can even argue that music is sex (in many respects). I was triggerd to make this blog because Mick Jagger just turned 65 last week and it wasn't noticed by many media. This is just a small tribute to one of my super heroes.

[Happy Birthday Master Mick]

A poster called Keith Richards just dropped these links for the 2-CD movie Shine a Light from super legend director Martin Scorscese.

Shine a Light - The official trailer
Shine a Light - A sample music video [16MB.]

Shine a Light - The OST album - CD1 [14 tracks/98MB.]
Shine a Light - The OST album - CD2 [10 tracks/74MB.]

Shine a Light - CD1 part1.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part2.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part3.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part4.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part5.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part6.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part7.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD1 part8.rar from RS [25MB.]

Shine a Light - CD2part1.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part2.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part3.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part4.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part5.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part6.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part7.rar from RS [100MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2part8.rar from RS [25MB.]
psw (if needed) = shine

Alternative / mirror
Shine a Light - CD1.avi from MS [725MB.]
Shine a Light - CD2.avi from MS [725MB.]
psw (if needed) = shine

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George

Georg Friedrich Händel, 1685-1759

Breaking news. Georg Friedrich Händel was gay. That is the latest from my newspaper. He was a joyfull German guy from Saxonia making music for the English court (vat ter teffel = what the devil).

His water/fireworks music and his Giulio Cesare (Julius Cesar) opera are well known. He made about 40+ operas and a lot of other well-known great baroque music. It seems he is becommimg a hype again - stay tuned.

- The Largo from his Xerxes opera.
- The splattering 'La Rejouissance' from his Water musics.

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