So, I've been think about this for a long time, but didn't want to be laughed at.  Do people think there's a case for Morricone in Prog-Related (skip to The Feed-back now if you like)?

Here's a few Morricone vids to get people started (the first vid is from the gloriously psychedelic year, 1968):










And since Oldfield is in whose Tubular Bells is the Exorcist theme, how about Morricone's Exorcist 2 theme?



 
Anyway, I doubt this site is ready for Morricone yet, but how about The Feed-back which features Ennio Morricone? Now this I think deserves a place as a JRF  (after absorbing the album more, Krautrock or Avant is more appropriate -- sorry was rather too new to me when I suggested it and wasn't thinking) album.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlpOqg6zsI (edit, embedding disabled, I should always check those when posting so a URL instead)

1970

Feedback

1

7

3.11

rate

It's really a contunuation of Gruppo Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (which features the amazing Egisto Macchi)

albums.push('tr410165');albums.push('tr309868');albums.push('tr410166');albums.push('tr410167');albums.push('tr331946');albums.push('tr410169');albums.push('tr410171');albums.push('tr87915');

1966	Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza			2		3.77	rate
1967	The Private Sea of Dreams [as Il Gruppo]	2 issues	2	29		2.91	rate
1969	Improvisationen		2	7		3.28	rate
1970	The Feed-Back [as The Group]			7		3.74	rate
1973	Improvvisazioni a formazioni variate			1		4.00	rate
1973	Nuova Consonanza			10		4.14	rate
1975	Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza 2	2 issues		4		3.62	rate
1976	Musica su schemi	5 issues		23		3.35	rate
2000	Appears on: Gli occhi freddi della paura (1971) [Ennio Morricone]	2 issues	1	22		3.50

Edited by Logan - June 17 2010 at 20:00

I'll check this asap

Thanks for reminding me of this suggestion

The EM samples are very nice (The Devil Is A Woman sounds so Zeuhl! ), the question would be "how much of his output is like that?" The Feed-back sample was fabulous, and it does sound krautrock-ish indeed. Maybe Psyche-prog would be their best home on PA?

Here's another The Feed-back track.  If the Krautrock or Avant teams are interested, I can provide more music.

http://musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/audio-the-feed-back-kumalo-1970/

No.  It's not just regional; it involves a sound and approach that can be fit for bands/artists hailing from other countries..

Logan wrote: Here's another The Feed-back track.  If the Krautrock or Avant teams are interested, I can provide more music. http://musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/audio-the-feed-back-kumalo-1970/

^ Awesome! I was hoping you'd respond to this topic as you know far more than I. And that MorriconeRocks has posted a lot of great stuff on youtube.

Thanks to all for your posts and interest. Every post matters (unless people are misinformed). I think Morricone has a really strong case for PA both due to his music and he's influenced many in progressive rock, but there have been concerns about including soundtrack/ library music composers even if the music fits. I support having such composers in PA (but even if Morricone were accepted, the prospect of preparing such an addition is scary and would be good to have a few people working on it).

At the least, I hope this leads to more people discovering Morricone (well, I guess most here would know some Morricone, but more and different Morricone) and related artists such as Egisto Macchi (really appreciate the recommendation before of Macchi).


Edited by Logan - June 18 2010 at 13:18

Don't know if you had the chance to listen to the samples Marty, but I'd appreciate your impressions on the music.

Thanks for the feed-back, Chris. 

I mentioned The Feed-back/ Gruppo d'improvvisazione... to the Avant team with a link to this thread this morning, and I hope both The Feedback and Morricone can find a place ere too long (though I rather expect Morricone will take much longer to find its way into PA -- huge discography --, and I wonder how much of Gruppo will have to be evaluated since The Feed-back, though it could have a separate listing, is a Gruppo... project).