Piero Piccioni: Italian Beat, Yeah!

January 28, 2006 10:50 PM

Signore e signori: Piero Piccioni!Continuing my (apparent) obsession with Italian composers of the 1960s, I present you Piero Piccioni: jazz pianist, son of a conservative Italian politico, suspected murderer, and composer of some of the hippest, grooviest soundtracks ever put down on wax. [via this unbelievable vinyl sharity blog]
posted by ford and the prefects (19 comments total)

oh man, that blog is awesome! rapidshare.de may have finally found something that will make me pay for their "premium" service =)
posted by idontlikewords at 11:07 PM on January 28, 2006

If you like Piero Piccioni, you might also like Piero Umliani. He's most famous for the Sesame Street song but if you have a chance to check out his other work, I can't recommend it enough. Thanks for the blog!
posted by mushroom_tattoo at 12:06 AM on January 29, 2006

Uh, would love to listen but what's a .m4a file?
posted by twsf at 1:14 AM on January 29, 2006

RapidShare sucks so much ass. A necessary evil. Thanks for the post. I always love finding new favourite music.
posted by ashbury at 5:33 AM on January 29, 2006

an m4a file is an itunes music file, I believe. If you use winamp you can get a plugin for it. Or just use itunes.
posted by ashbury at 5:34 AM on January 29, 2006

Ooh this is lovely stuff - the music, and the blog. Thanks!

Also glad I found out about Daniele Luppi from the mention in comments to this entry - he made an album with the original session musicians of many of those soundtracks by Piccioni, Rota, Morricone (you can hear the Morricone whistle right in the first track). Just went through the samples on iTunes, sounds brilliant.

(and in terms of younger Italian artists inspired by those soundtracks, you might also like Nicola Conte and The Dining Rooms).
posted by funambulist at 8:45 AM on January 29, 2006

nice post, thanks!
posted by .kobayashi. at 9:28 AM on January 29, 2006

man, i am so grooving on this right now.
posted by 3.2.3 at 9:41 AM on January 29, 2006

This shit is fucked up. In the good way.
posted by digaman at 10:27 AM on January 29, 2006

This made me drop 12 bucks on a month of rapidshare...

Now, what else can I get from rapidshare? Anyone have any other good links?
posted by stenseng at 1:05 PM on January 29, 2006

Now, what else can I get from rapidshare? Anyone have any other good links?

Stenseng, if you look at the blogroll on lellebelle you'll get a pretty good sense of the massive amounts of swingin' vinyl sharity going on. Every one of those links is packed with out-of-print LP deliciousness!
posted by ford and the prefects at 1:16 PM on January 29, 2006

oh man, I think I just crapped my pants for joy.

Thanks Ford
posted by stenseng at 1:20 PM on January 29, 2006

Oh, and, uh, it would maddeningly unfair of me not to mention Oddio Overplay, the nexus of all of these great sites. I'm slogging my way through Songs from Classic Hindi Films right now.
posted by ford and the prefects at 1:25 PM on January 29, 2006

oh jeez. I'm not going anywhere today am I...
posted by stenseng at 1:27 PM on January 29, 2006

I need a bigger disk!
posted by funambulist at 2:26 PM on January 29, 2006

hot poop. I think I've scored seven or eight albums this morning, each one of which was easily worth the twelve bucks admission. Rapidshare+sharity sites = me never going outside again...
posted by stenseng at 3:29 PM on January 29, 2006

Now, what else can I get from rapidshare? Anyone have any other good links?

follow the second link on this mefi post and scroll down.
posted by 3.2.3 at 3:42 PM on January 29, 2006

While we're at this, lets not forget Ennio Morricone.
posted by mosessmith at 5:15 PM on January 29, 2006

Wow, I love Piero Piccioni & lellebelle as well! Never knew about the murder stuff, thanks. If you like this, Riz Ortolani is great too.
posted by stinkycheese at 6:27 PM on January 29, 2006