Midweek Mixdown: Italian Library Music with Lorenzo Fabrizi

Here's a sweet mix of Italian sound library treats put together by SONOR Music Editions founder Lorenzo Fabrizi. 

Italian Library Music From The Golden Era  

Filippo Trecca - Col Fiato In Gola 0:00

Sandro Brugnolini - Respòndico 2:58

Giovanni Tommaso - Walk Slow 7:18

Sandro Brugnolini - Roxy 10:47

Giovanni Tommaso - Analcolico 14:15

Rino de Filippi - Fabbricauto 16:13

Rino de Filippi - Agraria 19:07

Sandro Brugnolini - Gregorio VII 22:20

Alberto Baldan Bembo - Tropical Club 25:29

Paolo Ormi - You Dance, I Don't 28:38

JJ Whitefield - Other World 32:47

Claudio Tallino - Smoke Gets in Your Head 35:10

Sound Library Gems: Sandro Brugnolini's Superground

Sandro Brugnolini's 1969-70 psych sessions with I MARC 4 members was released as Superground by Four Flies Records in 2019.

Here's the scoop...

What if the infamous UNDERGROUND and OVERGROUND albums had a third psychedelic chapter, still secret and unreleased until today? 

Yes, you heard correctly: this SUPERGROUND LP is sonically akin to the legendary pair for which composer Sandro Brugnolini – who passed away in 2020 at the age of 89 – will always shine worldwide, and ideally brings the trilogy to a close. Composed and recorded in two sessions between July 1969 and November 1970, using members of reliable sound library crew I MARC 4. Whether Brugnolini was working on the recordings for a specific film project remains a mystery although some music wound up being used for the 1969 animated short “Radice Quadrata di Tre,” a little art-film comment on consumer society directed by Pino Zac. 

The recordings all employ the terrific I MARC 4 members Antonello Vannucchi (organ), Maurizio Majorana (bass), Roberto Podio (drums), along with Angelo Baroncini (guitar) replacing Carlo Pes. An incredible groovy combo that plays a strange psychedelic rock and r’n’b with a funky flavour. 

Another lost masterpiece from Italian golden age soundtracks finally rescued and and put on wax by Italy's Four Flies Records with some mastering assistance byFabrizio De Carolis at Rome's Reference Mastering Studio.  Get it via Bandcamp right here. 

Sandro Brugnolini - Superground

A1 - Sharon Tate 02:46

A2 - Villa Polanski 04:24

A3 - Malattia 03:09

A4 - Kissing 05:39

B1 - Hip Now 03:55

B2 - Lovable 03:37

B3 - Petting 04:06

B4 - Malattia #2 03:03

B5 - Under Funeral 02:32

A1, A2, A3, B1, B4, B5 recorded at Globestudio on 15 July 1969 

A4, B2, B3 recorded at Dirmaphone Studios on 20 November 1970 

tracks A1, A2, B1, B5 were composed for the short animated film Radice Quadrata di Tre (1969, Pino Zac) 

Whaddya mean you don't know Sandro Brugnolini

Check out the psych-bent 1970 sound library gems "Overground" & "Underground" by the late great Sandro Brugnolini. 

Sonor reissues rare Italian sound library gem Freedom Power from '76

Here's the scoop...
Freedom Power is a legendary Italian sound library album out of the vaults of Cometa Edizioni Musicali featuring tones of mental Jazz-Funk and Psychedelic beats. The listener is constantly kept by the incredible music that swings between Psychedelic Funk, Esoteric Jazz and Cinematic/Love themes.

Tracks like "Love For Sale", "Privacy", "Metropolis Notte" and "Dopping 2000" are simply timeless, with a stunning sound that perfectly evokes the 70s vibes of Italian library/film music's golden era. Originally issued in a limited edition, Freedom Power has finally repressed on 180 gr. wax remastered from the original analog tapes.

Freedom Power was originally released in 1976 by Cometa Edizioni Musicali (CMT 4), re-released in 2020 by SONOR MUSIC EDITIONS in a limited edition of 500 copies. Get a digital version of Freedom Power right here.

Listen to Sandro Brugnolini's "Vortice" followed by the rest of the album.