Essential release for completists and casual fans alike, this compilation put together by Beat Records in Italy features a host of classic Italian horror scores, all with one thing in common: director Lucio Fulci. The record features gorgeous album art by Randy Ortiz, and is pressed on 180 Gram Red & Yellow Vinyl, limited on 1,000 copies (also available on Black Vinyl).
We'll be selling the record at the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse in Austin before tomorrow's THE BEYOND screening, the next film in our Mondo X Chiller series! You can grab tickets for the screening here. The 2XLP will be available online Wednesday, June 17th.
Creator of some of the most revered films in Italian horror history, not only did Lucio Fulci have an eye for dreamlike visuals, he had an ear for choosing amazing composers, managing to get some of their best work from them.
This compilation features Fulci mainstay Fabio Frizzi - presented here with selections from The Beyond and Manhattan Baby, both of which rank as some of his finest work (and certainly his funkiest ); Oscar winner Ennio Morricone, contributing four selections from his sublime and psychedelic score to Lizard In A Woman’s Skin, an utterly spellbinding listen that will send shivers down your spine; Walter Rizzati, presenting two cuts from The House By The Cemetery which has an incredible gothic feel of forboding. And who knew that the soundtrack to one of Fulci’s nastiest films - The New York Ripper composed by Franco De Masi - had such an incredibly funky latin soundtrack that offsets the violence in the film and makes you want to dance like a duck?
Rounding out this 2 LP set are two scores that have NEVER been on vinyl before: Giovanni Cristiani’s score to Demonia, a driving percussive-led score that is as moody as it is thrilling, dripping in synths and texture, and Franco Piana’s Door to Silence, which offers up some pretty thrilling 70’s jazz style cues soaked in brass and atmosphere. Big, bold and ballsy and definitely a welcome addition to the Fulci vinyl cannon.
Tracklisting:A Lizard In A Woman's Skin
01. La Lucerlola
02. Sole Sulle Pelle
03. Magia Nera
04. Slinge
The New York Ripper
05. Fay
06. New York One More Day
07. Suspance and Murder
08. New York One More Day (2nd version)
Manhattan Baby
09. Baby Sequence 1
10. Baby Sequence 2
The Beyond
11. Voci Dal Nulla
12. Verso L'Ignoio
Demonia
13. Hell Flames
14. The Nun Crypt
15. The Blue Mountain
16. The Revelation
17. World's Navel
18. Farewell to Dread
The House By The Cemetery 19. Quella Villa
20. Tema Bambino
Door To Silence
21. Melvin's Theme
22. Love and Death
23. Running
24. Unknown
25. Dark
26. Leave a Message
27. Bechel
28. Magician
29. The Nun Crypt (feat. Lucio Fulci's voice)