The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone‘s unforgettable score to Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the “Dollars Trilogy”: 1965’s For a Few Dollars More. This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from Morricone’s score to the series’ debut A Fistful of Dollars plus the original…
The Second Disc’s Guide to Record Store Day 2024: Our Essential Picks
Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It’s that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums – almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value). This year, the list tops out at over 350 titles, so there’s very nearly something for everybody. It wasn’t easy to narrow our choices down to around 20 titles, but here…
(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do: Craft Recordings’ RSD Slate Includes Collective Soul, Bill Evans, “Reel Cult” Soundtrack Series Launch, More
Today, we continue our ongoing look at this year’s massive Record Store Day list with a spotlight on the releases coming from Craft Recordings. All descriptions are taken directly from the label. If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20. Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers. U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca. Craft continues its commitment to classic jazz, launches the new Reel Cult soundtrack series from soundtrack specialists Varese Sarabande, and touches on…
Soundtrack Watch: Intrada, Quartet and Varese’s Last Batches for 2023, ‘The Naked Gun’ Gets Solo Shot
With a few weeks left in the year, film score labels are still working hard to get out some choice archival releases on CD! Here’s the latest from Intrada, Quartet Records, Varese Sarabande’s CD Club, and a reissue from the folks at Rusted Wave. The estate of James Horner has worked overtime to get a myriad of scores from the late composer out into the market. Two major ones come from Intrada and Quartet, respectively: Intrada delivers a reissue of his third film score, to the sci-fi adventure film Battle Beyond the Stars…
Day of the Sword: Quartet Brings Ennio Morricone’s “Red Sonja” Score To Vinyl
A new documentary series, simply entitled Arnold, recently premiered on Netflix. The three-part film chronicles the life and career of Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you go back to the earliest part of the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-Governor’s film career, you will find his two Conan films and the related Red Sonja. The 1985 movie starred Brigitte Nielsen as the red-headed warrior and composer Ennio Morricone was brought on to provide the score. That score has been given its very first vinyl reissue by Quartet Records in a limited edition. Red Sonja’s origins are slightly convoluted. She…
Soundtrack Watch: Everybody’s Talkin’ About Quartet’s Score Reissues
As we approach the end of 2020, soundtrack labels are working overtime to put out some great archival score presentations. Not to be ignored this time of year is an impressive line-up from European label Quartet Records: last week they announced three incredible expanded releases and a new re-recording. Additionally, they recently issued another two expanded releases that are absolutely worth fans’ time. Those recent releases are a pair of acclaimed scores from 1990: Jerry Goldsmith’s work on Total Recall, and Maurice Jarre’s soundtrack to the thriller Jacob’s Ladder. Total Recall found…
Release Round-Up: Week of November 6
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition (UMe) uDiscoverMusic Store: black / color Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1979 album in super-sized format. Armed Forces arrives today as a deluxe, slipcased 9-disc vinyl set with three 12-inch LPs, three 10-inch LPs, and three 7-inch singles including 23 previously unreleased live tracks and the complete contents of the previous Rhino/Edsel deluxe edition (with many tracks making their debut on vinyl). It contains a new remaster by Bob Ludwig and EC of Armed Forces from the original tapes; Sketches for Emotional…
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In Memoriam: Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)
In the spring of 2004, my junior year of high school, I enrolled in an elective that was split between Theatre Arts one semester and Analyzing Cinema the next. One of the more polarizing films shown in class was Sergio Leone’s epic Western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – the class of 16 and 17-year-olds didn’t entirely jibe with the lengthy takes, surreal logic (complete with characters surprised by events that couldn’t be seen within the frame), or the score, which was firmly Western in terms of genre and compositional…
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Soundtrack Watch: Quartet’s New “Thing,” Varese Dives Deep with “SeaQuest DSV” and “The Running Man”
A new remaster of a classic soundtrack album and two new expansions are on display in our latest soundtrack-round-up. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Quartet Records is remastering Ennio Morricone’s score to John Carpenter’s sci-fi classic The Thing. An adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. short story Who Goes There? (first filmed as 1951’s The Thing From Another World), The Thing features an ensemble cast portraying researchers at an Antarctic outpost who encounter an alien creature that can take the form of its hosts. The film’s combination of…
Quartet Records Unveils Holiday Slate with Soundtracks from Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, More
Following La-La Land Records’ recently-announced mega-slate of Black Friday releases, Spain’s Quartet Records label has revealed its own impressive line-up of end-of-the-year reissues. The label has brought out the heavy hitters – including Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Quincy Jones – for an exciting group of limited edition soundtracks. Below, you’ll find Quartet’s own write-ups for each title, with pre-order links to the label as well as to Screen Archives Entertainment. Jerry Goldsmith, The Great Train Robbery: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (Quartet / Screen Archives) Quartet Records and MGM…
Universal Pictures, La-La Land Team For New Soundtrack Imprint
On Friday, Universal Pictures announced plans to preserve and restore its classic library of movie music as well as the birth of a new imprint to release those scores on compact disc. The Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection will launch this week as a joint venture with La-La Land Records with the premiere release of Michel Colombier’s 1970 score to the sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project. In August, Henry Mancini’s score to the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of The Prisoner of Zenda will follow. Titles are expected to be released…
Él is Flying High with Ennio Morricone and Joao Donato
Cherry Red’s Él Records label is going ’round the world with a pair of recent releases. Morricone Pops focuses on an oft-overlooked part of Italian composer Ennio Morricone’s ouevre: that of his early sixties arrangements not just for film, but also for pop singers. Él also turns its attention to a favorite country, Brazil, for Sambou, Sambou, a collection of two albums of tunes by composer-pianist Joao Donato. With a staggering body of work including more than 500 films and television shows, 84 year old Ennio Morricone has deservedly earned a reputation…
