1971 Giuliano Sorgini “Scappo Per Cantare” on Fama SRL

You could make a pretty convincing case that Italians do the best library music, with the French a close second, or some other case entirely (Papau New Guinean Library Rules!), but it would be hard to argue regardless if you happened to be spinning this fantastic record at the time. It’s great enough to shut pretty much anyone up, and is even impeding my typing, which over at Castle Wax amounts to the same thing. Sorgini, of course, is the genius pianist/composer behind an untold string of telefilm/panorama/soundtrack/soundscape/jazz/Third Stream releases, including the disturbingly mighty “Under Pomplemo” and “Sounds From Far Space”.  And that doesn’t even count the releases under the pseudonym “Roskovitch” and the Braen/Roskovitch collaborations (Braen being the equally massive Alessandro Alessandroni), which includes a number of the FLIRT series, and well as some killer Lesiman (Paolo Renosto)/Roskovitch jams. Dude was a WORKHORSE and his flow was supreme.

​It’s interesting how all Italian library action sounds like all other Italian library action, and yet it’s vastly different in style, flow, intent, genre, instrumentation, and composition. Which I realize makes no sense and is nevertheless true. There’s just something about the overall Roman attitude, it feels deep and historical while also light and sanguine. In other words, a thing of sublimity, nuance, and beauty. And this is on my list of TOP titles without question. Hell yes!