Name: Continente Nero
Brand: Piero Umiliani

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DIACD918

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-08

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8018344499185

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Artist

Piero Umiliani

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African

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Dialogo

Piero Umiliani was an Italian composer of film scores and library music. He was born on July 17, 1926 in Florence, Italy and passed away on February 14, 2001 in Rome, Italy. Throughout his career, he composed and recorded numerous soundtracks, library albums, and TV title themes. Umiliani became famous for his song "Mah Nà Mah Nà," which gained worldwide recognition after being performed on The Muppet Show. He played a significant role in shaping the style of European jazz-influenced film soundtracks during the '60s and '70s.

Born in Florence in 1926, Piero Umiliani gained international recognition with his composition for the OST of "I Soliti Ignoti" (Big Deal on Madonna Street) in 1959. This marked the first time jazz music was used in an Italian comedy movie. His talent continued to shine through as he collaborated with renowned artists such as Chet Baker and Helen Merrill for other notable soundtracks like "Smog." In 1970, Umiliani established Liuto Edizioni Musicali publishing company and Sound Work Shop recording studio.

Liuto's catalogue includes some of the most memorable moments in Italian film music history. From "La Ragazza dalla Pelle di Luna" (The Girl with the Skin of the Moon) to "Angeli Bianchi … Angeli Neri" (White Angels …

Released in 1975, Continente Nero is the perfect flip side of"Africa (1972), an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani's music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali and To-Day's Sound. It does so by taking inspiration from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, but also from the Afro- American jazz history of Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others.

Continente Nero

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