Just discovered a two-man group named Zombi who do a "Tangerine Dream meet Rush" instrumental synths plus drums that is right up my alley, and a good harkening back to some of the folks DropForge introduced me to in this thread.
Here's a key track from the first Zombi album I've listened to, 2011's Escape Velocity.
This 45-minute edition contains additional tracks that weren't on the initial LP program, the contents of which have been uploaded into a YouTube video:
I like this music overall. Macchi's modernist approach reveals contemporary classical aesthetics and this I Futuribili album may have even been considered avant-garde in '71/'72. I'm unclear, however, if Macchi had written this material for stock library purposes, as a number of these Cometa releases focus on library music as well as soundtracks from specific TV programs or films. SAE stocks these CDs (even if they aren't soundtracks, per se) because their composers have also worked in films.
I Futuribili is a significant offering within the (scant) Egisto Macchi discography.
Thanks for posting this, Zardoz. When I'm in a more experimental frame of mind, I'll be giving the youtube version a spin to see if this is one for the collection.
(I mean, after all, Christmas AND a New Star Wars! - I'm in another mood entirely right now. )
This 45-minute edition contains additional tracks that weren't on the initial LP program, the contents of which have been uploaded into a YouTube video:
I like this music overall. Macchi's modernist approach reveals contemporary classical aesthetics and this I Futuribili album may have even been considered avant-garde in '71/'72. I'm unclear, however, if Macchi had written this material for stock library purposes, as a number of these Cometa releases focus on library music as well as soundtracks from specific TV programs or films. SAE stocks these CDs (even if they aren't soundtracks, per se) because their composers have also worked in films.
I Futuribili is a significant offering within the (scant) Egisto Macchi discography.
I will have to pick this up. I love his score for "The Assassination of Trotsky"
(Music from the) Hearts of Space still has a home online, but it's a generally more placid experience than you will find in many of the albums we've got listed here. (I started listening to the show on the public radio network I now work for starting back in the mid 1980s!)
Check out the group of musicians called Umberto, its electronic + orchestra similar to Goblin, there best album was Prophecy of a Black Widow, some of there other albums are a good listen too.
What a find, Lukas! I'm on bandcamp most days but haven't paid attention to their articles, now I will. Just going through the samples for all the imaginary soundtracks as I work this morning. A real treasure trove.
This quote from the article expresses why I enjoy listening to this kind thing. "The music doesn’t need to follow traditional musical formats, so it can be a break from structuralist convention....The other thing I really enjoy is being able to reprise thematic ideas, and explore them more fully, which isn’t something you can always get away with across a more conventional album, and try to tell a story through music. Exploring a narrative instrumentally is a pretty awesome thing.”
I've discovered TONS of great artists in recent years, doing old-school electronica for films, games and albums, but it's veered more towards darkwave, synthwave, retrowave, that kind of stuff. More 80s than 70s.
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