LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

...Ennio Morricone, the venerable one, the master of the mosaic - his eclectic powers exploding through cinematic consciouness as technicolor shrapnel for nearly forty years. By alchemically combining the exotic and the experimental, Morricone's magical mutations have spear-headed the movement to define the role of film music in the modern age. This collection is a view from the top of the food chain; 16 boxcars of luminosity from an archival train that could span this earth. Culled from 8 original soundtracks in the "Beat Records" catalogue, some of these cuts are impossible to describe. What kind of music is "Una Corsa Disperata". High drama orchestral psychedelia? How about "Veni Sancte Spiritus". An acid rock opera in Vatican City? And how could the sweet-syrup majesty of the theme to "Il Grande Silenzio" possibly accompany a murderous Klaus Kinski on the screen during Sergio Corbucci's epic spaghetti western, the only one filmed in three feet of snow?..." (from Alan Bishop's liner notes).