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If there 300 copies, its common sense to buy them with-in the 1st week of release, I never miss 300 if its my taste.
As you can see for yourself on the Quartet website, all the Italian titles which were released this year and which were limited to 300 copies are still available there:
http://www.quartetrecords.com/cd-catalogue.html
And this despite the fact that Quartet has become a very popular label - more popular than smaller ones - among collectors worldwide above all thanks to their releases of US titles which are of course always much in demand.
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Here's hoping that a purple monkey mail carrier has delivered L'assassino to the purple monkey dishwasher.
During the meantime, Digitmovies has now designated Fatevi Vivi as being "Sold Out".
http://www.digitsoundtracks.com/site/it/products/CDDM170/
Have all of us Piccioni fans got our copies of this Henry Silva Poliziesco?
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I quite liked Fativa Vivi... (which I see is still available at the moment on Amazon UK).
The score leans more towards suspense music than anything else and perhaps is a bit more subtle - and less jazzy and relentlessly upbeat and showy - than many Italian police scores of that time.
It relies heavily on a couple of themes which are reused throughout, so it does get a little repetitive as it goes on; I suppose that's the downside of an hour's running time.
They draw comparisons between the score and the one written for the Tony Curtis/Roger Moore series The Persuaders! - but to be honest I couldn't really see it myself.
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This is the second CD relese of this Piccioni score. The first one was on the Japanese Avanz label in 1998 and already had 60 minutes of music:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/20514/Scusi%2C+Lei+%E8+Favorevole+O+Contrario%3F
Soundwise there were a few problems on some tracks of the Avanz CD. It could be that they have been restored now for this new version.
This is a very ear-catching, partly nostalgic, partly upbeat Piccioni score with inspired themes. Very enjoyable stuff.
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There are about 12 minutes more music on the Digit CD. However, the track titles are for the most part completely different from the ones on the Avanz CD which at the moment makes a comparison difficult.
The Avanz CD had also packed the alternate cues into two suites (track 21 and 22). These suites have been taken apart for the new CD version. And the gypsy music (track 7 on Avanz) has now a duration of almost 10 minutes and has apparently been spread out over three tracks (4-6: "La festa Tzigana").
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I think L'ASSASSINO will sell out before RoGoPaG!
You might be right Piccioni's L'assassino seems to be selling very well so far.
Quartet lists L'assassino as now being sold out:
http://www.quartetrecords.com/cd-catalogue/l-assassino.html
Hope all interested parties got their CDs - it's not that frequently that a Piccioni album sells out in less than 5 months from release.
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2017 turned out to be a year which offered us Piccioni consumers a long-overdue focus on Piero's early 1960s 'peak' period prior to the domination of the Ennio Morricone aural blueprints which influenced the late-'60s onward.
February 28, 2017
Toto' Diabolicus (1962) on Digitmovies
July 17, 2017
L'assassino (1961) on Quartet
December 8, 2017
I Dolci Inganni (1960) on Saimel
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Besides the two mentioned episodes from ITALIA VISTA DAL CIELO these are the titles in more or less chronological order:
- IL SEGRETO DELLA SIERRA DORADA
- I RAGAZZI DEI PARIOLI
- L'IMPIEGATO
- BREVI AMORI A PALMA DI MAJORCA
- LA NOTTE BRAVA
- MONDO DI NOTTE (1 + 2)
- I DOLCI INGANNI on Saimel
- LA VIACCIA on Saimel
- L'ASSASSINO on Quartet
- LE SVEDESI
- MANI IN ALTO
- IL GIORNO PIU' CORTO
- TRE PER UNA RAPINA
- GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA on Beat
- ADDIO ALEXANDRA
- FERMATE IL MONDO...VOGLIO SCENDERE on Beat
- TOH E' MORTA LA NONNA
- PER QUESTA NOTTE
- CRISTO SI E' FERMATO A EBOLI
- LA PRESENZA PERFETTTA
Update!
5 of these have materialized by the start of 2018.
Appears as though Saimel & Beat are the leading champions of Piccioni, with great assist from Digitmovies and Quartet.
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Besides the two mentioned episodes from ITALIA VISTA DAL CIELO these are the titles in more or less chronological order:
- IL SEGRETO DELLA SIERRA DORADA
- I RAGAZZI DEI PARIOLI
- L'IMPIEGATO
- BREVI AMORI A PALMA DI MAJORCA
- LA NOTTE BRAVA
- MONDO DI NOTTE (1 + 2)
- I DOLCI INGANNI on Saimel
- LA VIACCIA on Saimel
- L'ASSASSINO on Quartet
- LE SVEDESI
- MANI IN ALTO
- IL GIORNO PIU' CORTO
- TRE PER UNA RAPINA
- GIOVINEZZA GIOVINEZZA on Beat
- ADDIO ALEXANDRA
- FERMATE IL MONDO...VOGLIO SCENDERE on Beat
- TOH E' MORTA LA NONNA
- PER QUESTA NOTTE
- CRISTO SI E' FERMATO A EBOLI
- LA PRESENZA PERFETTTA
Update!
5 of these have materialized by the start of 2018.
Appears as though Saimel & Beat are the leading champions of Piccioni, with great assist from Digitmovies and Quartet.
And SOOO many amazing CDs to buy for a Piccioni newb! Le Monache hooked me, now I'm all the way in, such an excellent, imaginative film composer.
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