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Rumoured to be an Incan princess (or a housewife from Brooklyn) there is one thing about Yma Sumac of which there is no doubt: her voice – an astounding instrument, both emotive and playful that captured the imagination of millions during the height of her 1950s “Voice of the Xtabay” exotica-fame.

After years of global adulation, tours behind the iron curtain and then a number of personal crises, Yma was ready to return to the spotlight in 1972.

Flanked by her original collaborator, the King of Exotica, Les Baxter, this was to be no tired rerun of former glories but instead a blistering psyche-rock-exploitation opus!

Yma growls and swoops her way over solid grooves, swirling keys and fuzz guitars. Withdrawn immediately after release in a blizzard of litigation and acrimony, this rare and lysergic masterpiece is now fully restored and remastered from the original master tapes for its first ever official reissue.

Presented with two fantastic (and previously unheard) extra tracks.

Yma Sumac - El Cóndor Pasa (Excerpt from Miracles LP)

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Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) has long existed in the shadow of his friend and famous collaborator Ennio Morricone. As Morricone melded pop idioms and western scores, Macchi too melded classicism, the avant garde and early electronic music.

Aside from his frequent collaborations with Morricone (in the astounding ‘Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza’) Macchi was a busy film (LSD Inferno, Bandidos, The Assassination Of Trotsky) and TV (E.S.P, many commercials with Mario Bava) composer in late 1960s and 1970s Italy and France. Macchi also cut a number of highly desirable library LPs for the Gemelli, Sermi and other Italian labels in the 1970s.

‘I Futuribili’ is one of the greatest and most sought after of those LPs, a stunning and powerful hybrid of haunting orchestral arrangements, jarring avant tones and dense electronic atmospheres. Presented as an exact replica of the incredibly rare 1972 Gemelli LP, remastered from the original master tapes and complete with liner notes as an insert.

Some consider Egisto Macchi to be an undiscovered genius, and here is the evidence.

•	Exact replica LP of the mega rare original 1972 LP. 
•	First ever official reissue. 
•	Remastered from the original master tapes 2011. 
•	Rarely heard haunting masterpiece of orchestral/avant/electronic 
soundscapes.

Egisto Macchi - Camere Anecoiche (Excerpt from I Futuribili LP)

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Italian avant-garde and film composer Egisto Macchi (1928-1992) produced a large and largely forgotten catalogue of astounding music during the 1960s and 1970s.

At the crest of that incredible body of work stands Voix - an LP of intense contrasts – haunting, dissonant choirs collide with dexterous musique concrete manipulations and other worldly soundscapes while guitars buzz and strings scrape violently. The world of Voix is a frightening and beautiful place. There are echoes here of Macchi’s friend and famous collaborator (in the avant composer’s collective ‘Il Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza’) Ennio Morricone, yet Egisto Macchi existed in a musical universe truly all his own, and the time for a reappraisal of this undiscovered cosmology has surely come.

Presented as an exact replica of the incredibly rare 1970 Gemelli library LP, remastered from the original master tapes and complete with scholarly liner notes as an insert. Some consider Egisto Macchi to be an unheralded genius… and here is more evidence. (Also see I Futuribili, Roundtable SIR007LP)

•	Exact replica of the mega rare original 1975 LP. 
•	First ever official reissue. 
•	Remastered from the original master tapes. 
•	Rarely heard haunting masterpiece of choral/orchestral/avant /musique concrete soundscapes

Egisto Macchi - Voix (Excerpts)

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Perhaps the most bizarre artefact to emerge from the phenomenal world of Italian Library music.

Originally scored for a 1978 RAI television documentary, the album titled Tuscan Castle and Country Seat conforms to nothing you know or understand about library music. Studying composition under maestro A.R Luciani, the young Teisco composed innovative home studio recordings that parallel the outsider technique of French soundtrack composer Francois De Roubaix. With little resemblance to the standard cues usually found on library music LPs, this is stoned underground psychedelic music of the most eccentric kind. Imagine lyrical Moog oscillations drifting loosely over baroque and hallucinogenic atmospheres, or alternatively, think the DIY guitar jamming of the Velvet Underground and Dream Syndicate mixed with the electronics of some lesser-known Krautrock band.

Wherever this recording sits among the dusty shelves of forgotten stock music, it is highly personal, deeply rewarding and without a doubt the most mind-blowing library record you will hear this year. This record is soon to be an outsider classic.

•	First reissue of a lost underground Italian Library LP. 
•	Mind-blowing DIY Electronics and underground psych.

Teisco - Tuscan Castle and Country Seat (Excerpts)

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Undoubtedly one of the central figures of 1960s/70s Italian film music, Alessandro Alessandroni defined the very essence of the genre with his vocal group, I Cantori Moderni.

Renowned for his pioneering reverb guitar sound, sitar exploration and a phenomenal whistling technique (perhaps best known for his contribution in shaping the famous ‘Spaghetti Western’ sound), Alessandroni’s vast and innovative contribution to Italian soundtracks is unparalleled.

Recording countless sessions for many Italian film composers of the period including Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, Piero Umiliani and Francesco De Masi (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, All the Colours Of The Dark, Sweden: Heaven and Hell and Alla Scoperta Dell’India respectively), his importance as a sideman often overshadowed his own work as a solo artist. Complementing his session work, Alessandroni was an amazingly inventive composer in his own right; his unique compositions were issued on many Italian, French, and German Library labels throughout the 1970s. One of the most desired sessions (and reported to be his own favourite recording) is Prisma Sonoro, a mythical library LP issued as a micro press for the highly collectable Sermi label.

This record is exquisitely crafted Italian mood music; propulsive bossa infected with mild lysergic delirium. Enchanting Harpsichord melodies measured against scowling Giallo style guitars, mournful string arrangements and the sublimely plaintive voice of Edda Dell’Orso. Long regarded as the backbone of the Italian OST sound, here is Maestro Alessandroni in all his own lush psychedelic glory.

•	First LP reissue of this highly collectable Italian Library session. 
•	Remastered from the original master tapes. 
•	Replica of the original sleeve artwork. 
•	Liners notes by Library expert Jonny Trunk.

Alessandro Alessandroni - Prisma Sonoro (Excerpts)

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Founded in Rome in 1964, ‘Il Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza’ was a collective of noted and noteworthy composers who challenged the very structure and performance of music itself.

Today the most renowned of its members would be film-scoring genius Ennio Morricone (indeed “Il Gruppo…” performed on many celebrated Morricone scores of the 1960s and 1970s) but each contributor has an intriguing history in Italian music. The collective improvised live (according to strict exercises) and in the studio (recording for RCA, Deutsche Grammaphon, General Music and others). Come 1970 “Il Gruppo…’ (as ‘The Group’) recorded “The Feed-back” (for RCA Italy), an insane amalgam of avant-improvisation and motorik krautrock beats that, understandably, has become one of the most collectable LPs ever issued. In 1971 ‘Il Gruppo’ returned to the studio to record a sequel. This is that record. For reasons unknown “Niente” was never originally issued but one listen will convince that not only is it the sequel to one of the most sought after LPs of all time, but it is also by far its superior.

Brain melting jams collide with unhinged intensity in a hothouse of Italian avant-improv. You have been warned...

•	First ever LP issue of this originally unreleased masterpiece. 
•	Band members: Battisti D'Amario, Egisto Macchi, Ennio Morricone, Franco Evangelisti, Mario Bertoncini, Walter Branchi, Vincenzo Restuccia. 
•	Official release remastered from the original master tapes 2011. 
•	Sequel to mythical RCA LP “The Feed-back”

Il Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Bambu (Excerpt from Niente LP)

Now available on LP via Votary Records.
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