The story of “The Revelations” is part of a fruitful and unique period of Italian Discography. A moment of great creativity and innovation, when the boundaries between music, cinema and television were uncertain. A story of great orchestras, film directors and inspired composers which were endlessly producing in a country getting back on its feet after the Second world war. “The Revelations”, released in 1970, is a gem that emerged from this period. A record amongst many that although relatively unknown, remains highly sought after by record collectors world over. Adventurous is probably the most appropriate word to describe those fantastic years that we fondly remember for famous film scores and the birth of the Italian pop scene. Help!, the Rome based record label which released “The Revelations”, was the first music business run by the young producer Gianni dell’Orso. Conceived by Dell’Orso, appearing here under his alter ego Proluton, and his brother Giacomo, “The Revelations” LP was produced as Library Music for television and manufactured in a very limited number of copies. It was a peculiar recording within the label context, with musical intuitions that sparked great interest in this release which in turn has made it both valuable and highly collectable. The LP blends diverse inspirations and heterogeneous moods, since its aim was to offer many options to television producers. Giacomo Dell’Orso, musician, composer and orchestra director, signed most of the tracks under the moniker Oscar Lindok. His music takes the listener into a journey through cinematic atmospheres and funk influences with a beat background – a world of moving melodies and strong grooves. Giacomo’s life is an example of dedicating one’s existence to music for we can’t avoid the underlying connection of his private life, music and cinema without also remembering his marriage to Edda Sabbatini - better known as Edda Dell’Orso, Ennio Morricone’s favourite singer. The musicians featured on this record are great session men with glorious careers: Silvano Chimenti, Giovanni Tommaso, Enzo Restuccia and Mario Scotti - all famous for their work on film scores and as featured musicians who enjoyed great Italian Pop success as well. “The Revelations” arrives back on record store shelves in this remastered version – a must-have for all Library Music lovers and vinyl collectors.

The title of this release, In the Eye of the Cat, is a reference to the Italian giallo film genre popular during the 1960s and 70s, featuring lurking killers and dark but artistic displays of cruelty. Alex Puddu is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, who is known for thinking outside the box and for his interest in Jazz/percussive psych-groove. This album is the second part of the Puddu/Dell’Orso trilogy.

Four years after the release of "Lonesome Traveller", The Dining Rooms come back with a new album that virtually connects to the early sound of the Milanese duo, especially to the cinematic atmospheres of "Numero Deux" (2001). Abstract jazz, cosmic funk, instrumental hip-hop: "Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)?" contains all the features and influences typical of The Dining Rooms' sound.

A collection of 10 remixes that were previously available only on 12 inch vinyl, alternate versions of 'Tunnel', & 'Phunky' by The Dining Rooms themselves and a previously unreleased track 'Dreamy Smiles'. Features interpretations from Nicola Conte, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Fourtet, Fragmentorchestra, & more.

During the '70s, workdays at Umiliani's Sound Workshop were hectic; thousands of sessions were held in order to keep up with the busy Italian movie industry. Hundreds of soundtracks were recorded and released in very limited quantities. Those LPs are now very collectible and extremely hard to find. Filled with hypnotic bass lines, heavy drums and screaming fuzz guitars "Underground", the first LP of the fictitious group known as Braen's Machine, is one of the rarest and most expensive of them all.

Temi ritmici e dinamici offers brighter, less psychedelic atmospheres, leaving room to beat sounds, to a swinging rhythm section, to the Hammond organ and even to moog and synthesizers. Despite a lighter and an almost purely entertaining context, the album also allows for experimentation, as can be heard in the two songs that close both sides: "Esercizi Ginnici" and "Aspetti Grotteschi".

2009 release. Munich based drummer, DJ and producer Christian Prommer launched a cutting edge new music project in 2007 called Drumlessons. Gathering around him the talented quartet of the pianist Roberto Di Gioia, the bassist Dietr Ilg, the percussionist and film composer Ernst Stroer and the veteran drummer Wolfgang Haffner, Prommer started treating well-known electronic music pieces in an acoustic jazz key. 13 tracks. Schema.

“This album is an amazing journey into the world of soundtracks and library music of the 70s. In french they would call it “Music pour l’image” and this term gives you the exact idea of the deeply evocative potential of this sequence of notes does have. “Registrazioni Al Buio” is indeed a fresh and charming recording by a talented musician and gifted producer who brings new life to old sounds by restyling, merging, and mixing old and new musical intuitions. The result is somehow familiar if you loved the works of Lesiman, Bacalov, Pisano or the infinite genius of the maestro Morricone and his old time friend Alessandroni, but at the same time it sounds new, with echoes of ’No wave‘ intuitions à la Lounge Lizard. There is no fine sampling job here. Everything is perfectly revived by combining vintage instruments and great knowledge of sound recording. From the delicate opening theme of “Il Canto delle Orchidee” you are thrown into a swirl of emotions, some of whom are dark and tensive, while others are very introspective and sensual. A true gold mine of musical gems, the album contains wonders like the mysterious enviromental sounds used to create a particular gothic pathos (check out “Mother’s Milk”) or an amazing spaced out trumpet. With no doubt you will immediately recognize the voice of Edda Dell’Orso, the famous singer especially known for her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, who enriched a few tracks with her unique wordless singing. As in a movie by Quentin Tarantino, where the lesson from the past is totally assimilated and reworked, but you still might be able to tell ‘what it is and where it came from’, this album is an original hommage to a ravishing musical past. A perfect blend of the love and knowledge of the fine connaisseur and original experimentation. An album to file alongside those old classic soundtrack masterpieces that still sound fresh and inspiring after so many years.” - Luca Sartor

Another amazing research find, one following Schema’s recent release of Underground by the same musicians, this obscure LP by The Braen's Machine, dating from 1971, is part of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic periods of Italian music history: Library Music, made for radio and TV mainly, pressed on a few vinyl copies.Quarta Pagina portrays – some possible but maybe never realized – crime scenes, with hard-boiled, dark atmospheres, alternating with Psych-Funk sounds that have characterized many of the projects related to the Italian cinematic genre.

“This album is an amazing journey into the world of soundtracks and library music of the 70s. In french they would call it “Music pour l’image” and this term gives you the exact idea of the deeply evocative potential of this sequence of notes does have. “Registrazioni Al Buio” is indeed a fresh and charming recording by a talented musician and gifted producer who brings new life to old sounds by restyling, merging, and mixing old and new musical intuitions. The result is somehow familiar if you loved the works of Lesiman, Bacalov, Pisano or the infinite genius of the maestro Morricone and his old time friend Alessandroni, but at the same time it sounds new, with echoes of ’No wave‘ intuitions à la Lounge Lizard. There is no fine sampling job here. Everything is perfectly revived by combining vintage instruments and great knowledge of sound recording. From the delicate opening theme of “Il Canto delle Orchidee” you are thrown into a swirl of emotions, some of whom are dark and tensive, while others are very introspective and sensual. A true gold mine of musical gems, the album contains wonders like the mysterious enviromental sounds used to create a particular gothic pathos (check out “Mother’s Milk”) or an amazing spaced out trumpet. With no doubt you will immediately recognize the voice of Edda Dell’Orso, the famous singer especially known for her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, who enriched a few tracks with her unique wordless singing. As in a movie by Quentin Tarantino, where the lesson from the past is totally assimilated and reworked, but you still might be able to tell ‘what it is and where it came from’, this album is an original hommage to a ravishing musical past. A perfect blend of the love and knowledge of the fine connaisseur and original experimentation. An album to file alongside those old classic soundtrack masterpieces that still sound fresh and inspiring after so many years.” - Luca Sartor

All tracks written by Gerardo Frisina and Vincenzo Lo Greco and published by Edizioni lshtar snc except tracks #1 written by Horace Silver, published by Ecaroh Music Inc., #4 written by Ademir Nooand Shirley Sandala, #8 written by Freddie Hubbard, published by Hubtones Music Co. SHEMA.2006.

The rare ‘Dicky Oliver’ album was released on RCA Italy in 1969. Of the artist, little is known. It’s a super funky LP loaded with furious Hammond and great horn sections. Among the tracks are three JB covers: “The Chicken” is a floor-killer, fueled by a powerful groove; “Let Yourself Go” and “Papa's Got A Brand New Bag” also appear. Covers of Hugh Masekela (“Grazing In The Grass”), Jimmy McGriff, Cannonball Adderley and two original tracks written by Richard “Dicky” Oliver complete the tracklist.

Add a touch of 60s Italian soundtracks and some Latin Licks, then throw in some wild & crazy breaks, beats and electronica and you have a blueprint for the Les Hommes sound.

Frisina's continually seeks the right balance between Jazz, Afro-Latin & contemporary beats. This 4th album presents more fruit of this exploration, more than just a collection of remixes. Frisina produced many of them for various labels (from Verve to Soundway) throughout the years of his prolific music career, which he started as a compiler in the late '90s. a sophisticated record collector, Gerardo transformed into a meticulous music producer with 3 albums to his credit and a variety of singles in the early years of the new millennium. He's known internationally as well as appreciated by worldwide music connoisseurs. This album features the most representative remixes he has produced ("Guarapiranga" is the only one here that he did for Schema); but also encompasses 3 previously unreleased tracks ("Calle de candela"; "Es Diferente", "Tokyo's Dream-'07 version") as well as B-sides of previously released 12"es which synthesize the essence of his journey through music.

From the hands of the same Fedreghini-Bianchi, writers of "Several People", here comes the re-worked version of the album that came out in 2005, revisited by the duo itself. "Several Additional Waves" is an album of reworks more than remixes, where the tracks of the album originally acoustic have been treated and rearranged in a strictly electronic key. Only the vocals have been maintained from the original recording, whereas all the other parts have been played again and re-programmed keeping the same original refinement. The concept of this album came from the inspiration drawn out of the Club Culture. All sounds electronic and acoustic have been emphasized here even through the use of equipment that was not involved in recording "Several People": Mini-Moog, Oberheim, Waldorf Microwave. Paolo Fedreghini and Marco Bianchi had fun in making use of such prodigious machines of music technology.