In Hour 2 we hand over to Italian cinematic maestros Calibro 35. Having formed in Milan in 2007 as a one off studio project revisiting obscure Italian 60's B-Movie Soundtracks, they have now released 5 albums (including there latest S.P.A.C.E), multiple soundtracks and they've been sampled by Dr Dre and Jay Z. Not surprisingly their mix is pretty much an all Italian affair featuring Marc 4, Ritz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani, Rino De Filippi and Tony Esposito, plus music from White Noise, Archie Shepp and Raymond Scott.
I MARC 4 - Trama Nella Metropoli Italian soundtracks best musicians ever keepin it real with one library track that is just awesome. RITZ ORTOLANI - Si può’ essere più bastardi dell’Ispettore Cliff sometimes it is all just in the title and you can’t beat Ortolani’s “Can you be more bastard than Inspector Cliff”, can you? WHITE NOISE - Love without sound An English band in a pretty much all Italian set. White Noise are out of BBC radiophonic workshop where Delia Derbyshire and friends used to produce music for “Dr Who” and so forth PIERO UMILIANI - Bus Stop Piero Umiliani is by far one of the best Italian Maestro. He had his studio - Soundworkshop - and his own labe - Liuto - and used to release shit load of libraries and the quality is always amazing. TONY ESPOSITO - Eroe di Plastica He became famous for a terrible song - you likely and luckily never heard - during the ‘80s but Italian percussionist Tony Esposito had the time to do a brilliant masterpiece album this song is taken from RINO DE FILIPPI - Calcolatore elettronico Rino De Filippi used to be programmer for Italian BBC - Radio Televisione Italiana - and he produced quite a few interesting libraries over the years. ARCHIE SHEPP - Song for Mozambique Recorded in Milan in 1978 just before Archie Sheep’s appearance at Italin most important jazz festival Umbria jazz this song is out of “Sea of Faces” a brilliant album for Italian niche label Black Saint. HELIOCENTRICS - Distant Star English aces Heliocentrics are always wicked and they album inspired us a lot during last album. WHITE FIELD BROTHERS - Safari Strut Germany got funk, Kudos to Weissenfeldt brothers. BUDOS BAND - Up from the South When we’ve first listened , we thought it was something recorded 40 years ago. CALIBRO 35 - Locale This song is out of a soundtrack we did for a Spanish Italian movie “Said”. THE GROUP - Feed-back This was Morricone’s wet dream. A high level noise making bunch of musicians recording what they feel like. MORRICONE - Placcaggio Another Morricone’s masterpiece out of “Cat of Nine Tails” soundtrack. Hypnotic groove plus noises and effects are infectious and really work well within Dario Argento's movie context. ARMANDO SCIASCIA - Heaven on their Mind Sometimes Italians do it better and Armando Sciascia was great re-doing international soundtracks. Original song is out of Jesus Christ Superstar but this version really killed it! LESIMAN - Moto Centripeto Paolo Renosto was one of the most important Italian avant grade composer but during his spare time he dedicated to compose some wicked library music covered under Lesion nickname. PIERO UMILIANI - Exploration Mililani again for a killer song out of its label Omicron releases. He was proud and independent and really knew what he was doing. BALDAN BEMBO - Kamasutra Sometimes Italian soundtracks are just very well made rip offs and this is just the case. Baldan Bembo doing an erotic movie called Kamasutra and really nailing it with a killer tune, he probably forgot doing this... M.ZALLA - Produzione Umiliani again under pseudonym RAIMOND SCOTT - Cindy Electronium Astonishing Raymond Scott’s side project. With money he gained doing commercials in the ‘50s he fund this electronic synth experiment that is just so ahed of its time that is unbelievable! PIERO UMILIANI - il Motivetto delle 10.30 \"Quantity music”, this is the name Alessandrini gave to me describing library production and this is the proof. Title - translates “10.30 theme” - tells us it was really quick to do this thing and was really improvised by very talented musicians. CALIBRO 35 - L’uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio We made this song between first and second album and I’m very happy with the result. It’s a cover of Peppino De Luca “L’Uomo dagli Occhi di Ghiaccio” BRAEN MACHINE - Flying Covered under psychedelic pseudonym Braen Machine were whistler/guitarist/singer Alessandro Alessandroni and music programmer Rino De Filippi. CALIBRO 35 - E nessuno si fara’ del male