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LE PROFESSIONNEL (1981)
Music Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by Ennio Morricone

Limited Edition of 500 copies.
52 minutes of music. Remastered edition supervised by Claudio Fuiano.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Laurent Perret.

Ref: MBR-048
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Music Box Records is pleased to reissue the classic Ennio Morricone soundtrack for Le Professionnel, one of the Maestro’s best known scores and themes that attained fame all over the world. Supervised and mastered by Claudio Fuiano, the soundtrack has the same program as the limited edition GDM CD released in 2002 that had been going for unreasonable prices on the secondary market.

For a long time, Le Professionnel has been notable for being one of the best-known Morricone scores even though very little of the composer’s music actually written for the film survived in the final cut. Instead of using the cues Morricone actually penned, director Georges Lautner and more importantly star Jean-Paul Belmondo decided to use a recording of "Chi Mai" a very famous Morricone composition that has been used and recorded in a number of different projects. The first appearance of the famous "Chi Mai" melody was in Maddalena (1971) and was later recorded as a pop song (in several languages) and a so-called disco instrumental was done in 1978. It was this recording that was used in Le Professionnel and is known as the theme from the film (even though it wasn’t specifically written for it).
As per usual, Morricone recorded longer, album only variations of his two primary motives: "Le vent, le cri" and his so called "Bach" motive whose album version was named "Le retour". The first theme represents Beaumont’s character, while the second one was designed as a sort of vengeance motive. The variations made for the film were featured on CDs as well, but due to the random nature of the naming and the random placement of the cues in the film, there’s a whole lot of music you never get to hear within the movie.

For those who missed the previous GDM edition, Music Box Records makes this new remastered definitive edition available once again. The limited edition of 500 copies comes with an 8-page booklet with French and English commentary by Laurent Perret.



TRACKLISTING:

1. Le vent, le cri (premier thème) (05:20)
2. Bach (première variation) (01:20)
3. Le vent, le cri (première variation) (00:26)
4. Le vent, le cri (générique) (01:48)
5. Décision finale (01:24)
6. Le vent, le cri (deuxième variation) (02:37)
7. Le vent, le cri (troisième variation) (02:14)
8. Le vent, le cri (quatrième variation) (01:46)
9. D'Afrique (première version) (02:12)
10. Le retour (sur le nom de Bach) (05:28)
11. Le vent, le cri (cinquième variation) (01:48)
12. Bach (deuxième variation) (01:30)
13. Le vent, le cri (sixième variation) (01:16)
14. Le retour (Bach - troisième variation) (00:53)
15. Le vent, le cri (septième variation) (02:25)
16. Le vent, le cri (changement d'octave) (00:52)
17. D'Afrique (deuxième variation) (02:09)
18. Le vent, le cri (neuvième variation) (02:40)
19. Le retour (Bach - quatrième variation) (01:01)
20. Le vent, le cri (dixième variation) (02:26)
21. Le retour (Bach - cinquième variation) (00:42)
22. Le vent, le cri (onzième variation) (00:39)
23. Le vent, le cri (douzième variation) (01:19)
24. Le vent, le cri (treizième variation) (02:42)
25. Chi mai (03:27)

Total Time • 51:26

For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-c … onnel.html


LE MARGINAL (1983)
Music Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by Ennio Morricone

Limited Edition of 500 copies.
74 minutes of music. Remastered edition supervised by Claudio Fuiano.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Patrick Bouster.

Ref: MBR-049
Release Date: May 5, 2014

For those who missed the previous GDM edition released in 2002, Music Box Records is pleased to reissue the complete (slightly expanded) soundtrack of Le Marginal (The Outsider) composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone.

Le Marginal was a 1983 film directed by Jacques Deray (La Piscine, Borsalino, Trois hommes à abattre) and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Carlos Sotto Mayor and Pierre Vernier. The story is about Commissioner Jordan (Jean-Paul Belmondo) who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way. After scuffles with local mafia godfather Mecacci’s men, as well as with his own superiors, he is transferred to Paris. Soon at loggerheads with various criminal elements, he turns to a resumption of the pursuit of drug kingpin Sauveur Mecacci (Henry Silva).

The composer, in an unusual move, used a rock theme which would resurface in Copkiller that same year of 1983, and in Frantic in 1988. This urban score features numerous variations both similar and far off, from the most melodic (a catchy theme on oboe, which is both simple and elegant) to the harshest (tensed and percussive pieces).

The soundtrack of Le Marginal has been issued numerous times. The soundtrack LP was first issued by General Music in France in 1983 with a 10-track program. In 2002, GDM released an expanded edition with a 23-track program with a rich and varied presentation far superior to the original disc. It has been sold-out for so many years.

Supervised and mastered by Claudio Fuiano, this new definitive release is an essential adjunct to the GDM release, adding two supplementary pieces: a new version of the opening titles released solely on the double CD Belmondo-Morricone (1999) and the final track, appearing on several compilations, which is a shortened montage of the first track. It also includes the three songs (two of them composed by Ennio Morricone) performed by the band Blizzard. The limited edition of 500 copies comes with an 8-page booklet with French and English commentary by Patrick Bouster.



TRACKLISTING:

Original Album:
1. Le marginal (06:18)
2. Thème classique (04:51)
3. Dreamer (Performed by Blizzard) (04:06)
4. H.S.M. (02:34)
5. Le marginal (Pour Carole) (02:56)
6. Don't Think Twice (Performed by Blizzard) (04:14)
7. Le marginal (La droguée et le garçon) (06:21)
8. Hypertension (première partie) (02:45)
9. Hypertension (deuxième partie) (01:56)
10. Le marginal (Conclusion) (06:21)

Bonus Tracks:
11. Le marginal (Générique début, première version) (02:07)
12. H.S.M. (Thème de Mecacci) (02:41)
13. Le marginal (Une charmante rencontre) (01:04)
14. Le marginal (Enquête sur la drogue) (01:58)
15. Le marginal (Le squat des Antillais) (02:15)
16. Le marginal (Générique début, deuxième version) (01:51)
17. Le marginal (Pour Carole, deuxième version) (02:39)
18. Le marginal (À la gare de l'est) (01:12)
19. Le marginal (Pour Carole, troisième version) (00:53)
20. Le marginal (Règlement de comptes) (01:55)
21. Le marginal (Extrême tension) (00:48)
22. Le marginal (Pour Carole, quatrième version) (01:02)
23. Forecast (Performed by Blizzard) (04:17)
24. Le marginal (Générique de fin) (02:29)
25. Le marginal (version alternative) (03:54)

Total Time • 74:30

For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-c … ginal.html


LE DERNIER AMANT ROMANTIQUE (1978) • CAPITAINE X... (1983)
Music Composed by Pierre Bachelet

Limited Edition of 500 copies.
First time on CD. 70 minutes of music.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Nicolas Magenham.

Ref: MBR-047
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Music Box Records is pleased to present on the same CD two original motion picture soundtracks composed by Pierre Bachelet: Le Dernier Amant romantique (The Last Romantic Lover, 1978) directed by Just Jaeckin (Emmanuelle, The Story of O, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak) and French TV mini-series Capitaine X... (1983) directed by Bruno Gantillon.

Four years after Emmanuelle (1974), Just Jaeckin worked again with Pierre Bachelet for a film which is an homage to the world of circus and a satire on medias. The film, produced by Bernard Lenteric for Warner-Columbia Films, was written by the director himself and Ennio de Concini (who won an Oscar in 1963 for the screenplay to Divorce Italian Style directed by Pietro Germi). It tells the story of a female editor-in-chief of a large newspaper who falls in love with the lion tamer of a circus going bankrupt. She thus organizes a beauty contest for men, seeing to it that he wins.

With this film, Jaeckin goes slightly off the beaten path of sophisticated eroticism, in an altogether more delicate, but also ironic, direction. The film preached a sort of return to roots, a tradition incarnated at one and the same time by a certain idea of the romantic and by the world of the circus – in contrast with another kind of circus, of a more deleterious sort, that of the media and of beauty competitions. Bachelet’s music plays on this opposition: it is both situated well within the times, with its disco tempos and synths typical of the 1970s (especially for the title song Romantic Lover).
The scenes where the relationship between the image and the music has without doubt the most force are those that depict the world of the circus and in which Bachelet often utilizes anxiety-provoking synthesizers contrasting with these images from another age, which at the same time, curiously, adhere perfectly with them. For other scenes, Bachelet composes nostalgic themes that are more melodious, while preserving throughout a disconcerting and almost limping aspect, which recall certain pieces by Francis Lai done for Claude Lelouch.

This edition also presents for the first time on CD the original soundtrack to the spy series Bruno Gantillon's Capitaine X…, aired on the French television in 1983. The score showcases in large part original jazz music and romantic tracks.

Music Box Records, in collaboration with Gruppo Sugar, presents both scores for the first time on CD and transferred from the original stereo master tapes. The limited edition of 500 copies comes with an 8-page booklet with French and English commentary by Nicolas Magenham.



TRACKLISTING:

Le Dernier Amant romantique (37:24)
1. Romantic Lover (Performed by Cher Komisar) (03:24)
2. La roulotte (02:46)
3. Paradis samba (00:49)
4. Motel Show (02:30)
5. La bergerie (03:11)
6. La chanson de Fortunio (01:24)
7. Tendresse (02:22)
8. Conte de fée (02:45)
9. Roman d'amour (Performed by Marie Laforêt) (03:33)
10. Disco Circus (03:08)
11. Le dernier amant romantique (Bonnes manières) (02:32)
12. Nuit de cirque (03:33)
13. Le violon du bal (01:43)
14. La mort du lion (03:08)

Capitaine X... (31:48)
15. Pourquoi s'aimer (Performed by Anne Anderssen) (02:53)
16. L'adieu aux enfants (03:21)
17. Just for the Style (02:03)
18. Dans les yeux d'une valse (01:53)
19. Capitaine X (03:12)
20. Fin de soirée (03:04)
21. Croisière (01:42)
22. Swing Boat Blues (03:46)
23. Boléro (01:57)
24. Le marteau du crime (02:05)
25. La révérence du baron (05:28)

Total Time • 69:15

For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/cata … ine-x.html

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LA RAGAZZA DAL PIGIAMA GIALLO (THE PYJAMA GIRL CASE)
Music Composed and Conducted by Riz Ortolani
Original Songs Performed by Amanda Lear
Limited edition of 500 units


Premiere CD release of long-awaited giallo score composed by Riz Ortolani!

La ragazza dal pigiama giallo (aka The Pyjama Girl Case) is a somewhat forgotten Spanish-Italian giallo directed by Flavio Mogherini, starring Dalila Di Lazzaro, Ray Milland, Mel Ferrer, Antonio Ferrandis and Fernando Fernán-Gómez. The story is based on an actual crime that happened in Australia: a young girl was found killed on the beach with her face completely disfigured, dressed only in yellow pajamas. This unsolved case became an obsession for Mogherini and when he decided to make the picture one of his demands was that filming had to take place entirely in Australia—something unprecedented in the Italian genre. The 2006 DVD edition of the film, released by the well-known American label Blue Underground, has not only brought the film back, but it has also given it a certain cult-movie halo.

The music composed by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane, War Goddess, The Statua, L’Etrusco Uccide Ancora, Fratello Solle Sorella Luna) moves between two different styles: the composer’s characteristic suspense-film sound (as in his superb score for Non si sevizia un paperino)—including a wonderful love theme with the harmonica of Franco Di Gemini—and the cool disco sound of the seventies (with two original songs co-composed and performed by Amanda Lear).

Mastered by Claudio Fuiano, the CD contains the original previously released Cinevox LP program plus five bonus tracks. The package includes an 8-page booklet containing stills from the film, accompanied by an essay from Óscar Salas, who discusses the movie, the composer and the score.

This title are on pre-order now. We expect to receive the CD at the end of this week.
For more info and listen audio samples, please visit www.quartetrecords.com

PATRICK
Music Composed by Pino Donaggio
Limited edition of 1000 units


Pino Donaggio returns to the genre where everyone loves his music: a supernatural thriller!

This new, haunting and scary score (performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gianluca Podio) was composed by Donaggio (Don’t Look Now, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, The Howling) for the remake of the 1978 classic Australian horror movie: Patrick. Directed by Mark Hartley (director of the cult documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!), and starring Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Sharni Vinson (You're the Next), Jackson Gallagher (Nowhere Boys) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under), the new film was produced by the “original” Patrick producer, Antony I. Ginnane.

Following our previous successful Donaggio releases (Do You Like Hitchcock? and Passion), Quartet Records is proud to present the maestro’s latest addition to his library of classic horror scores, one that’s capable of representing the full range of emotions felt by the characters without the film—but this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t see the film if you get the chance to do so!
The package includes a 12-page full-color booklet with liner notes by Gergely Hubai, who discusses the movie, the composer and the score.


This album are on pre-order now. We expect to receive the CD at the end of this week.
For more info and listen audio samples, please visit www.quartetrecords.com

MUSIC BY DOMINIC FRONTIERE AND ALEX NORTH
LLLCD 1302
LIMITED EDITION OF 1200 UNITS
RETAIL PRICE: $19.98
PRODUCED BY FORD A. THAXTON AND JAMES NELSON
MASTERED BY JAMES NELSON
LINER NOTES BY JON BURLINGAME
ART DIRECTION BY MARK BANNING

La-La Land Records and MGM present another volume of music from the classic WWII television series THE RAT PATROL. Besides including more library cues composer Dominic Frontiere wrote for the series, we are also including an unearthed gem – Alex North’s never before heard score he wrote for the pilot! Film and television music historian Jon Burlingame delves deep into the rich history of this classic television series and the scores that helped make it so memorable. Mark Banning’s top notch art direction earns him the rank of Captain as his packaging design keeps in theme with the previous volume of music (now out of print). This new volume clocks in around 61 minutes.

justin boggan wrote
"Mac and Me" is down to 200 of fewer copies.

Maybe it's time to give some clues for our release in May:

The movie is a thriller, premiered 3 years ago and the composer lives and works in Los Angeles. One of the most famous and beloved cellists of Metal/classical and film music performs on the soundtrack.

Let the guessing begin!

PawelStroinski wrote
Hmm, I guess the cellist is Tina Guo then. But that's all I can get from this.

DISNEY TO OFFICIALLY RELEASE 2-DISC ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF 'THE LION KING' WITH 30 MINUTES OF UNRELEASED SCORE!

BobdH wrote
I think your post needs a little extra info to generate more respons...



Ok. Fixed it.

Miya wrote
Just saw the news on Japanese twitter I'm dying or living whatever I can't breath!!!!!