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Africa Minima

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:00:00 +0000

Originally released on Ayna Records in 1972 and never came around, cooproduced with Andrea Galtieri (Cavalier Piscopo). Pinnacle of the rarest Macchi’s albums, released as private pressing, just 1 copy it’s known to float around. Super rad percussive music, Minimal as much as Experimental, it was released for an obscure documentary of late ’70s. Remastered from Macchi’s personal master tapes.

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Fauna Marina (Blue)

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 23:00:00 +0000

At the end of the ’60s in Italy – but also abroad, especially in France and England – a very particular trend began to spread, that one known as ‘Library music’ or ‘sonorization’: as suggested by its name, those were real music libraries intended for the accompaniment of audiovisual productions such as television programs, advertisements, documentaries and films. Since they were created in total artistic freedom condition, they are often difficult if not impossible to catalog, as they’re not anchored to a specific musical genre; this freedom also allowed the authors to compose, sometimes in the most complete anonymity, experimental and avant-garde music, capable of anticipating the sounds that only many years later would have been widespread on a larger scale.
Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) was one of the most active composers of the sonorization and soundtrack genres together with artists such as Piero Umiliani, Alessandro Alessandroni and Ennio Morricone; he also collaborated with the latter in the experimental music project Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. “Fauna Marina” is among his most popular and sought-after by collectors titles: a set of eleven compositions intended to accompany the images of a hypothetical fish fauna documentary, an abstract hybrid of classical, contemporary and jazz music that is still fresh and surprising today.
“Fauna Marina” is part of a reissues series, made in collaboration with Edizioni Leonardi (Milan, Italy), of extremely rare library music LP’s published between late ’60s and early ’70s, most of which have never been released again until today, and that are finally made available again for collectors and sonorization music lovers.

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Asia

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Recorded in Florence in October 1979, “Asia” represents Egisto Macchi’s musical journey across the East. In this work, Macchi describes the many faces of Asia through his unmistakable, electric style. In Macchi’s music, Asia acquires mystical, religious, naturalist, sacred, and adventurous connotations. Acoustic instruments dominate this album; among percussion, zithers, celestas, flutes, marimbas, sansas, and violins, the listener embarks on a musical journey outside the limits of space and time.

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Gangsters 70

GuerssenAdmin — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:00:00 +0000

First Time On Vinyl – From Original Master Tapes.
An incredible first ever release of the legendary composer Egisto Macchi’s soundtrack for Mino Guerrini’s 1968 film, “Gangsters ’70”. Created in collaboration with Walter Branchi, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, it’s among the most strikingly experimental of all his soundtrack work and remains startlingly urgent more than half a century down the road. This album has it all. Psychedelic jazz, free outings, insane flow, tension, energy, melodic beauty and a telephathis interaction.

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