Name: Avantgarde
Brand: Ennio Morricone

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

VMLP256

Colour

Green

Colour details

Clear Acid Green

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2024-02-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Little Amber Fish

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

8016158025644

Total Cap

Green LP

Artist

Ennio Morricone

Genre GB

Soundtracks

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Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer known for his fusion of classical and popular music. Born in Rome in 1928, he developed a diverse musical personality, embracing both serialism and experimental improvisation. He gained recognition through collaborations with renowned directors such as Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino. In addition to his iconic film scores, Morricone's non-film works have been widely performed and showcase his unique compositional techniques. His numerous accolades include an Academy Award, Grammy, and Leone d'oro.
Morricone's career began with minor cinematic collaborations but skyrocketed with Sergio Leone's Westerns. He went on to work with esteemed directors like Giuseppe Tornatore, Brian De Palma, Roland Joffé, and Pedro Almodóvar. With over 400 film scores to his name, Morricone masterfully blended classical and popular idioms.
In addition to his film compositions, Morricone created non-film works that showcased his technique of 'micro-cells'. These pieces often incorporated modal and tonal allusions while maintaining a pseudo-serial approach. His innovative use of composition materials extended beyond the realm of cinema.

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The studies with Goffredo Petrassi and the association with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza let the Avant-garde playing an important role in the career of Ennio Morricone, who wrote many contemporary pieces for himself, but then the author composed soundtracks where dissonance played a major role.

For the Italian edition of the film Space: 1999 (1975), the cult British TV series, he composed a very neurotic Jazz with muted horns.&nbsp;Also for the science-fiction film The Humanoid (1979) Ennio Morricone created hallucinating strings scores mixed with electronic effects. For Sacco E Vanzetti (1971)&nbsp;an electronic score by Walter Bianchi evokes all the drama of the undeserved death sentence of the two protagonists.

Experimental music of great impact in the film and off the screen for famous thrillers such as The Death Dealer (1974), Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971).&nbsp;Avant-garde music has always been present in Elio Petri’s films set to music by Morricone such as Property is no Longer a Theft (1973).&nbsp;Avant-garde music in the noir cinema of Violent City (1970) and A Pure Formality (1994) and in auteur films such as Garden of Delights (1967) and Sarah's Last Man (1972).

Avantgarde

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Discover Avantgarde by Ennio Morricone. A collection of avant-garde music compositions and soundtracks, featuring dissonance and electronic effects. Available in various formats. Label: None.