Sleazy Does It: Ennio Morricone – Cavallina A Cavallo
Taken from the 1979 Italian-Japanese soft sexploitation flick Dedicato Al Mare Egeo (Dedicated To The Aegean Sea), this frothy erotic number finds the Maestro at his most playful and light-hearted. The wordless sighing melody is provided by naughty 70s pornstar Illona Saller, (“Cicciolina”) while the airy arrangement is effortlessly aided [...]
Monday Morricone Moment!: Black Light Orchestra – Morricone
As you may have noticed, there has been a lack of Monday Morricone Madness for some time now (sorry about that), but never fear, because in two weeks time we shall be returning with more thrilling instalments of our marvellous series!! Yay!! As next Monday is Bank Holiday, you’ll get [...]
Single of The Day – H. Tical – Equilibrium
The new Permanent Vacation compilation ‘Space Oddities Vol.2′, compiled by Alexis Le-Tan & Jess, is a brilliant collection of spaced-out, cosmic, groovy library music from the 70s and 80s. More psychedelic and proggy than Vol.1, it features some killer tracks from some of the finest soundtrack libraries in the world [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Cat o’ Nine Tails (Dario Argento, 1971) So what’s been happening since the last time I did a Morricone Monday? Well, Michael Jackson died, of course. You may have noticed that this website was probably the only media outlet in the world that didn’t register some kind of tribute to [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
Welcome to Monday Morricone Madness!!! We know its been a while but don’t worry as we’re back with a bang!! With more Morricone features being planned in light of Quentin Tarantino’s patronage to the Maestro on his new film ‘Inglorious Basterds’, there’s no better time to discover the magical world of Ennio Morricone! [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968) Hands up who likes Austin Powers? Well, I know I do! Not the wretched sequels of course, but the first film in the series, which was an incredibly smart and rather heartfelt parody of a period of filmmaking stretching from the mid to late 60s. With the Cold War approaching its 20th [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) There are certain films that have endings so unique, distinctive and downright unexpected that these endings often become the most famous thing about the films themselves. Think Planet of the Apes. Think The Wicker Man. Think Don’t Look Now. The last 5 or 10 minutes of [...]
(Not) Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) There are two kinds of 100 Greatest Ever-type film lists, aren’t there? First of all, there are the ones voted for by the general public. These generally appear in magazines like Total Film or are broadcast in whopping 3 to 4 hour specials on [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel, 1970) Anyone fancy playing a quick game of Going for Gold (semi-legendary UK quiz show in which contestants had to guess the identity of someone or something from a brief spoken description) as a “fun” way to introduce this week’s Morricone scored motion picture? [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) When Aneet and myself challenged each other to name our Top 5 favourite film composers recently(that’s the sort of crazy shit we get up to), rather interestingly, other than the legendary Ennio Morricone, subject of our regular Monday salutes, the only “scorer” we picked in common [...]