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July 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone
The great Ennio Morricone has died. He was 91. He was the greatest and most influential film composer of the 20th Century – his work carrying on into the 21st Century, which was when he was finally honoured with Academy awards – far too late. But Hollywood was somehow irrelevant to Morricone. He stayed in […]Archive
October 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 228
Ennio Morricone, Chi Mai (1981) Here’s the thing with being a dirty, rotten, grubby record-collector, particularly one that sets absurd life-goals like finding everything or at the least anything by Ennio Morricone – you are gonna go into a lot of junk-stores and leave with nothing but a lingering trace of your own shame-spiral. You […]Archive
June 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 292
Ennio Morricone, Un Uoma Da Rispettare [OST] (1972) Having followed whatever I can find by Ennio Morricone across the last two decades I’m now at a place where if I see something – I buy it. Even if I haven’t heard it. So it was with this, recently. It made me actuall watch the film – in English it’s called The Master Touch. And it’s not […]Archive
March 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Maestro Morricone: Sixty Years of Glorious Music-Making
I can’t be sure when I first heard the music of Ennio Morricone – it’s possible that I was hearing his film scores without realising who he was. That’s very possible given the hundreds of movies he’s scored. But at some point the name started to resonate – it was referenced. Bands that I listened […]Archive
July 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Diary: # 3 – Past The Mission – I Don’t Believe I Went Too Far…
Chinatown lured us back with its promise of cheap shit. Even some Lip Shit. Passed on that. But we did buy some of the I HEART SAN FRANCISCO-type memorabilia; you can justify it when you’re disguising it as a kid’s t-shirt purchase. We also went to the Eastern Bakery for something called a butter and […]Archive
February 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight [OST]
Various Artists: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight [OST] Verve Even when I have been less enamoured with the finished film product I’ve still been impressed with the soundtracks from Quentin Tarantino films – as it happens I rather loved The Hateful Eight – but waited to hear its soundtrack for the first time up on […]Archive
November 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 794
Ennio Morricone, The Mission [OST] (1986) I’ve picked up a couple of nice Ennio Morricone scores recently – Il Vizieto and Cinema Paradiso – but this was the one I was after…have seen it about on vinyl before, but now I’ve got it. I had the CD – and in fact it was the music […]Archive
October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 805
Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso [OST] (1989) I love this music. I have never seen the film. I must fix that. Been meaning to for a while. I think about it often actually – obviously shortly after first hearing this soundtrack. Then again, a few years back now, when visiting Wanaka’s pretty cool Cinema Paradiso movie […]Archive
June 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1091
Ennio Morricone, Il Vizietto (La Cage aux Folles) [OST] (1978) I can remember – back about nearly-20 years ago now – a mate of mine was in some semi-regular correspondence with one of the guys that had played guitar for Faith No More – this guy was also the guitarist in Mr. Bungle. My mate […]Archive
November 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Sebastien Tellier: Confection
Sebastien Tellier Confection Record Makers If you know Sebastien Tellier’s music you probably know him for his brilliantly layered, butch disco music; a sort of drunk-slick soul-sleaze set of electro-inspired pop tunes, and he’s all Warren Ellis-impersonating-Serge Gainsbourg, or a mountain-man down to tinkle the ivories and sip some brandies while he raises hemlines with […]Archive
October 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman