Orgasmo Sonore 'Revisiting obscure film music volume 1’.'

The deep influence that Goblin have exercised and still exercise on many musicians can easily 'measured' by observing the large number of artists who pay homage to the italian band performing Goblin songs. In 'Goblin sette note in rosso' I tried to mention all the covers of Goblin songs made over the years, starting from 1975 - it is an interesting topic and a new perspective that deserves a separate post - here I would simply point out that while some covers are due to purely economic reasons (to include a song in an anthology without paying the rights for the original track), others are the result of the true love that the artist has for that particular piece of music.

In this second category I put without any doubt the operation 'Orgasmo Sonore' to whom I dedicate this post. The first LP of this mysterious group (it should be a 'one man band' settled in Canada) is available and is subtitled "Revisiting obscure film music vol. 1". The album contains twelve tracks, ten of which are songs taken from soundtracks, mostly Italian, among which I appreciated the renditions of Chaser (from 'Il corpo', Piero Umiliani), Ecologia del delitto (Stelvio Cipriani ), L’attesa (from 'Incubo nella città contaminata', Stelvio Cipriani), Zombi 2 seq. 1 (Fabio Frizzi) and Connexion (from 'Contamination', Goblin). Listening to the album shines through clearly the passion profuse in the project and the respect for the original compositions. Orgasmo Sonore recreated the sound and maintained the arrangements using actual instruments and so, for example, the bass drum beat at the beginning of Zombi 2 seems to me obtained by hitting the microphone with a finger as in the original track (something that very few know so compliments!). I was pleasantly impressed by the quality of the recording that is really good, like hearing an album from the '70s which demonstrate that working with care and dedication can overcome the coldness of the digital recordings.

The album, produced in a limited edition of two hundred copies in a beautiful amber colored vinyl, is available at specialized shops but can be requested directly by writing to orgasmo.sonore@gmail.com. In this case, together with the LP, you’ll receive a ‘backup’ CD at the price of $ 15, plus shipping charges.

Goblin fans will like the version of Connexion and the LP also include Sandra's theme (ika La dolce Sandra) and L’attesa, taken respectively from 'Solamente nero' and 'Incubo nella città contaminata', two soundtracks recorded with Goblin members as session musicians.

Orgasmo Sonore has also created a nice video for Connexion that reminds me, as well as Contamination, the terrible (and thus for many a cult movie) Rats by Bruno Mattei.

On You Tube is also available a video with a cover of Pillage (from 'Buio omega') a track not included in the LP.

Orgasmo Sonore is working currently on the Volume 2 of this praiseworthy 'Revisiting obscure film music' which should also include a cover of 'Incubi ricorrenti' from 'Solamente nero'. I heard the first minute of this track and it promises well.

Good job Orgasmo Sonore!!

"Live in Roma" double LP album.

The readers who has had the luck to live in the '70s, an amazing era for rock music, know well the symbolic value that assumed for a band the release of a double live LP. If usually a single live album marked a major step in the career of a group still on the rise, the relaese of a double live LP indicated unequivocally that the rock band had made it, usually putting an end to years of exhausting tours and frenzied activity and opening another, sometimes marked by significant changes in the style. The double live album was basically a statement of the success achieved and it was the perfect way to reproduce a full live show, offering to the largest audience the opportunity to hear the musicians in action in the perfect place for a rock band is: on stage. Even graphically the double LP gave great satisfaction to fans: gatefold covers full of live photos often also shown on the inner sleeves, sometimes brochures with more photos, posters and other goodies (some band even put tattoos!) made these albums memorable.

Now, thanks to AMS, also New Goblin can claim to have a double live LP. In fact the label from Milan has crafted a sulfuric vinyl edition of 'Live in Roma', which certainly does not bring improvements in terms of audio quality but comes with new graphics really catchy emphasing the Italian roots of the band, a cover that I greatly prefer to the one on the standard CD version. AMS, as for Nonhosonno, has released 'Live in Roma' in five vinyl colors: transparent, yellow, blue, red and orange. This is a limited edition and it is clear that if the 'normal' fans will choose a single color, the super (or manic) fans will be forced to buy five copies of the same album by this astute and malicious marketing choice.

Next time I suggest AMS to directly market a version for the die hard fans gathering all the colors and maybe a booklet, a poster, some stickers (and even tattoos!).

“Live in Roma” was released even in Japan, here is the CD cover: