Impossibly rare Italian movie soundtrack from 1975. Go ahead and try to find one. I dare you. Most of the releases on Gemelli were Nicolai’s, but there were two Morricone LPs in the 10.000 series that are of note: “Chi la vista morire” and “Controfase”. Those guys are also pretty fucking hard to find.
via the Italian Soundtracks website:
Founding an own label to promote one’s own compositions was obviously very much “en vogue” in the 1960s in Italian cinema, since not only Bixio “the elder” and “the younger” had their own CineVox label, Piero UMILIANI (my musical GOD, if I may say so) founded and owned LIUTO, OMICRON and SOUND WORK SHOP (three labels!!!) and resurrected LIUTO for 6 CDs in the earlier 90s, Alessandro Alessandroni founded the SERMI-label for his pet-projects, and Gianni Marchetti is said to have been behind the ARIS label, but also Bruno Nicolai (and Fiorenzo Carpi?) founded his/their own labels! Yes, “labels”, because he was/they were not content with just one, he/they had in fact two: GEMELLI and MPS (in fact I am not sure if CARPI also “owned” parts of these labels or if “only” lots of his compositions were issued on them). All these labels were founded either in the late 60s or early 70s and lasted as long as the composer(s) composed or lived. GEMELLI was actually founded – like Alessandroni’s SERMI label – in the second half of the 60s, whereas MPS started operations in the early 70s. GEMELLI is still existing, since after Nicolai’s death his daughter (as far as I know) decided to issue (up to now) four CDs containing some of his most important recordings (one per CD) to be rescued into the times of the CD-format …
All these labels are also so-called “library labels”, having issued a fair share of “library LPs” (actually MPS issued only such recordings), meaning that the music issued on many of these discs does in fact come from movies, but was intended for re-use in commercials or documentaries or other movies, and for that purpose (and to not indicate or limit its potential use), do NOT mention from which movie(s) the issued tracks were taken, making it nowadays near to impossible to identify the original use of these tracks (which were probably also re-edited for the library releases)… Regarding the GEMELLI-series, the LPs Espressioni, Phatos bellico, Girasole, Sei composizioni and a few more are such “library LPs”.
The laminated covers were manufactured by using strong cardboard like RCA Italiana and CineVox, the pressing quality leaves nothing to be desired on ALL(!) recordings and the cover artwork is quite simplicistic but highly effective with some eye-catchers in-between. These are the kind of recordings collectors of Italian soundtracks start to turn to, when they´ve found nearly everything else … (smile). They´re all quite tough to find (500 copies released, you guessed it correct), but not yet command as high prices as many of the better known C.A.M., RCA and CineVox-releases … but that´s just a question of time, since demand does indeed increase, “thanks” to better knowledge of these items … All the above said is also 100% true for Alessandronis SERMI-label, which is even a little lesser known!!
Bruno Nicolai
Canossa
(Gemelli, 1975)
MediaFire DL Link
01. Canossa
02. Feudum [MP3]
03. Sinodo
04. Milites
05. Il Potere
06. Simonia
07. Il Perdono
08. I Patarini
09. Matilde
10. L’Assedio
11. Gli Invasori
12. Gregorio
13. Diritti E Doveri
