Africa offers a strange omnium gatherum of 14 africathemed tunes, strange even by exotica standards. Occasionally, arrangers and bandleaders with ties to the exotica genre revisit a certain sound or idea, not necessarily due to pressure from the upper floors of a record label or in order to cash in, but rather because there. The double lp bundle contains inserts with liner notes for. Africa 1971, polinesia 1972 and continente nero 1975 and recorded at soundworkshop. The double lp bundle contains inserts with liner notes for each release. Zalla on this artifact, it is the predecessor to his much more melodious continente nero 1975. Zalla moniker, originally released in 1972, and continente nero, released under umiliani s own name in 1975. Starting off in the early 70s, the legendary italian electronic wizard began to release weird and wonderful shapes of kinetic electronics, often inspired by the anthropology of. Both continente nero and africa both actually piero umiliani, as m.
Along with moggi, rovi or tusco, m zalla was one of piero umiliani s most revered monikers from his early period. The african continent rebuilt in microsolchi by maestro umiliani in 1975 is therefore a projection, an image that is in uenced strongly by the affairs of overseas colleagues. Africa and continente nero are being reissued for the first time in a 2xlp limited bundle, this november via dagored. Both lps feature experimental, fourth worldesque sounds from the continent, composed by umiliani and performed by some of italys finest italian and jazz session musicians at the time. Piero umiliani is an italian jazz musician, most famous also for his dalliances in scoring many film soundtracks. Listen to colpo gobbo allitaliana by piero umiliani on vibbidi browse every single songs, tracklists, music videos, remixes, fan covers, live performances. Zalla is simply a pseudonym are interesting examples of the italian library master dabbling in exotica and fauxtribal percussion, with thrilling results. Piero umiliani continente nero 1975 piero umiliani was born in 1926 in florenceitaly. Kronos records is proud to present for the first time ever on cd a library music collection of tracks by legendary maestro piero umiliani. Piero umiliani although most of his work straddled the gap between jazz and lounge, prolific italian composer piero umiliani also had a yen for electronic music, and he was one of the first in italy to experiment with the moog and other electronic keyboards. The tracks present on this compact disc were previously issued between 1971 and 1975 on three privately issued vinyl lps on umilianis own label liuto and omicron. Tutto il bello delluomo original motion picture soundtrack piero umiliani.
Continente nero by piero umiliani album, library music. Along with composers piero piccioni, riz ortolani, and armando sciascia, piero umiliani is one of the unsung heroes of soundtrack music. Dagored presents a double lp bundle of two first official piero umiliani reissues. From the liner notes for africa, curated by stefano gilardino. A cinque anni scopre il pianoforte del nonno materno e una zia insegnante di musica gli impartisce le prime lezioni. The two albums sound like a spooky documentary that. Piero umiliani continente nero omicron lp meditations. Percussioni ed effetti speciali lp piero umiliani currently unavailable. I tre microsolchi in questione sono africa pubblicato nel 1971 su etichetta liuto records lrs 046, polinesia pubblicato nel 1972 su etichetta omicron lps 0028 e continente nero pubblicato su etichetta omicron lps 0033 del 1975. Dagored presents a double lp bundle of the two first official piero umiliani reissues. This lp made by ten tracks that could have been the perfect soundtrack of a commedia sexy allitaliana a genre characterised by sexbased plots and bawdy jokes.
I brani provengono da lp di sonorizzazioni musicali, stampati in proprio dal maestro piero umiliani tra il 1971 e il 1975. Contributed by alexander sadchenko 50 report wrong information or missing video. Piero umiliani continente nero 1975, vinyl discogs. Dagored africa today percussioni ed effetti speciali. Metaforms rock it number nine sample of piero umiliani.
Piano fender blues remastered by piero umiliani on. Piero umiliani combines tribal music and esoteric jazz on this enjoyable 1975 release from the omicron label. Mix stelvio cipriani italia, 1969 femina ridens youtube. Africa 1971, polinesia 1972 and continente nero 1975 and recorded at soundworkshop studios in rome. Piero umiliani nasce a firenze il 17 luglio del 1926. Piero umiliani africa continente nero musicians friend. Exact repro reissue of the 1975 lp, part of the background music series. Lui, appena puo, strimpella le note di pippo non lo sa di gorni kramer, il primo brano che ha ascoltato alla radio.
Check out piano fender blues remastered by piero umiliani on amazon music. Africa continente nero lp item 866733 dagored, 19701973. Africa continente nero lp piero umiliani todays sound lp piero umiliani 6 feet beneath the moon lp king krule ii lp unknown mortal orchestra. Zalla moniker, originally released in 1972, and continente nero, released under umilianis own name in 1975. Piero umiliani aka m zalla africacontinente nero reissue. A great many of the best tracks from those albums are present here, along with many others from the wide catalog of omicron and beyond, both library.
Theres plenty of drama and mystery present with percussion playing a starring role on many of the compositions. Its a solid album with tribalismo and nel villaggio probably standing out as my favourite tracks. Piero umiliani is part of the canon of italian film composers, but he stepped away from the orchestra for a while in 1971 to record synthi time, a lovely collection of short melodic pieces using synthesisers alongside a hammond and a kind of harpsichord. The compositions here, have been credited to rovi another alias used by umiliani. Piero umiliani m zalla dagored dagored label sound library cd, lp. Stelvio cipriani italia, 1969 femina ridens youtube. Black friday lp piero umiliani studio umiliani lp piero umiliani switched on naples lp piero umiliani. Good morning jazz relaxing background bossa nova jazz playlist have a nice day. Piero umiliani continente nero 2017, vinyl discogs. Il conte giovanni degli uberti guiscardo gloria guida. Released on liuto records, africa functions as a triptych. Starting off in the early 70s, the legendary italian electronic wizard began to release weird and wonderful shapes of kinetic electronics, often inspired by the anthropology of africa, the mother continent. First time available since their original release, remastered sound, 500 copies only for these two piero umiliani gems exploring not only the traditional african music but also several other musical branches jazz, funk, with raw percussions, marimbas and a sunny vibe overall.
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