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artist · piero umiliani
release · musicaelettronica volume due
year · 2007
genre · easy listening
label · easy tempo
website · myspace.com/pieroumilianiofficialspace / myspace.com/easytemporecords / tinyurl.com/2atrxl
date · 12-nov-2007
quality · alt-preset standard
source · digital download
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01 la volta stellare 1:41
02 approdo lunare 2:22
03 azione sindacale 2:04
04 dolomiti 4:20
05 produzione 3:44
06 eliogabalus 2:35
07 attivitα 2:31
08 scoop 2:48
09 soundmaker blues 4:07
10 synthetic water 3:13
11 synthy bossa nova 2:25
12 nostalgia 3:23
13 synthy time 4:11
14 allucinazioni 3:15
15 la marcia dei robot 3:26
16 synthy pastorale 2:26
playtime · 00h 48m 31s
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i couldn't find much info on this follow up to 2000's
musicaelettronica volume uno. i'm not sure how it got complete,
since piero, the composer of ubiquitous mah na mah na, died in
2001. i've also only seen digital releases of it. here is a letter
from his daughter i've found on geocities.com/pieroumiliani .
props to the wonderful crew of sfe, we miss you :)
"my father composed mostly at home, on the piano. his studio was
right above my bedroom. he usually worked at night and i remember
falling asleep listening to the sound of the piano. when he
composed he never played the whole theme. it seems to me that he
had the theme already in his head and that he only worked out some
passages on the piano.
he had his own recording studio but, before this, i remember going
with him a few times to the rca recording studios in rome. i think
the first time i went with him i must have been 11 or 12 years
old.
generally, i never spent too much time with him when he was
working. i often found the recording sessions quite boring. i
preferred when he was recording the music score of a movie,
because there was a big orchestra that played while a scene of the
movie was being shown on a big screen. i remember my father
directing the orchestra and timing the music.
i can't really tell you exactly how many records he released.
probably more than 100 lps and 45s.
he wrote the soundtracks for more than 200 italian movies. his
music was also widely used for documentaries and different
programs on the italian tv .
in italy he was famous especially in the 60s and the 70s. he
composed the soundtrack of movies that here are still incredibly
popular. the most popular movie probably is "i soliti ignoti"
("big deal on madonna street") and this was also his first movie.
he was the first composer to use jazz music for an italian movie.
chet baker played his trumpet in this soundtrack.
in the 70s he experimented a lot with electronic music, especially
with the synthesizer.
in the early 80s he suffered a severe cerebral hemorage. at first
the doctors told us that he was going to die. instead he survived
but the brain damage was so extensive that he had to learn
everything again, to talk, to read, to write, to play... it took
him years to recover. it was only in the last years of his life
that he had started to work and perform in public again. everyone
thought that his recovery was a real miracle. as you probably
know, he died suddenly in february 2001.
i hope this information is helpful to you.
i think my father would have enjoyed reading your site.
sincerely,
elisabetta"
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