Piero Umiliani – Grazie!
Double LP (and bonus mix CD) of the groovier output from the Italian composer who gave us Mah Nà Mah Nà.
NATURE SOUNDS (LP CD)
Compiled by US DJ Mike Wallace with help from Umiliani’s family, and a trip to the late maestro’s Sound Workshop, this deep delve into some of the Florentine composer’s favourite works (as well as some of his rarest) is the perfect start-point for any new student of library music or Italian film music, hoping to find out what all the fuss is about. Redolent of everything from Lalo Schifrin’s late ’60s funk-soul grooves to the eerie synth patterns of early ’70s Public Information Films, and guitar-trio jazz, with lashings of breathy flute, doomy bass, wah-wah guitar, and lonesome trumpet, Grazie! is also perfectly sequenced, talking you from the rhythms of the hectic day, to those of the candle-lit night. Only 1000 copies have been pressed so snap it up quickly or check out Wallace’s Grazie! DJ mix over at Soundcloud.