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Piero Umiliani

Maestro Piero Umiliani ... Timeless and Stainless

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KID LOCO NEW ALBUM - The Italian Job - PREVIEW COPIES HERE
The new amazing album by Parisian master wizard (a little bit Loco too)
KID LOCO - THE ITALIAN JOB (TSPH 2000 - Temposphere)
01 The Right Intro
02 Crepuscolo Sul Mare (Umiliani)
03 Fearing Much (Torossi)
04 Per Il Disco Che Più Amo (I Maniaci Dei Dischi)
05 Clapsoy (G. Sato)
06 Magic (Piccioni)
07 Lady Magnolia (Umiliani)
08 La Seduzione (Bacalov)
09 Sessomatto (A. Trovajoli)
10 Mission To Venus (The Transistors)
11 Penetrare (G. Sato)
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Piero Umiliani was born in Florence on July 17 1926.
In 1959, charged by great Mario Monicelli to compose the OST of ‘I Soliti Ignoti’ (Big Deal on Madonna Street) OST, he gains international recognition.
The score featured Chet Baker on trumpet and it was the first experiment ever of Jazz Music on an Italian comedy movie.
In 1961, he writes the music for ‘Smog’ OST were again he featured Chet Baker artistry along with Helen Merrill shaping a masterpiece in Jazz OST history.
Il 1970, the Master opened Liuto Edizioni Musicali, his own publishing company and Sound Work Shop recording studio.
The first album of this new professional dimension was ‘Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso’ (Sweden, Heaven and Hell’) who contained the biggest hit of his career: ‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’ (Muppet Show, Benny Hill Show, Red Skelton show).
From Liuto catalogue came some of the greatest and richest moments in Italian film Music history.
‘La Ragazza dalla Pelle di Luna’ (The Girl with the Skin of the Moon), ‘La Legge dei Gangsters’ (The Gangsters’ Law), Angeli Bianchi … Angeli Neri (White Angels … Black Angels) etc.
Liuto catalogue also features incredible background music albums that delivers an amazing variety of sounds: from ‘To.Day’s Sound’ and ‘News’ to ‘Tra Scienza e Fantascienza’ (Between Science and Science Fiction).
In those great albums Piero Umiliani combined live Musicians with Electronic instruments. A very exhaustive manifesto of such works can be heard on ‘Musicaelettronica Vol. 1 & 2’ anthology albums.
In the past few years, the Timeless and Stainless sound of Piero Umiliani has strongly come back with the inclusion of his music in OSTs of movies like ‘Playing by Heart’ (Sean Connery), ‘Thick as Thieves’ (Alec Baldwin) and ultimately the star packed Hollywood production ‘Ocean’s 12’ with great 'Crepuscolo Sul Mare' track.
Major Multinational brands have used his music for television advertising and the CD releases of his music were acclaimed worldwide.
In his long career Piero Umiliani composed and recorded 190 soundtracks, 40 library albums and 35 TV title themes … to be continued …

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Member Since: 12/6/2006
Band Website: pieroumiliani.it
Band Members: Piero Umiliani (piano, moog, celeste, marimba, shynt, piano fender, arranger, conductor)
Sandro Alessandroni, Giulia Alessandroni, Edda Dell'Orso, Lydia Mc Donald, Nora Orlandi 4 + 4, Helen Merrill (vocal, scat)
Lucio Martoni, Livio Cerveglieri, Nino Rapicavoli, Gino Marinacci, Marcello Boschi (flute)
Mario Midana, Dino Piana, Biagio Marullo, Marcello Gabbi, Elio Forte, Mario Pezzotta (trombone)
Baldo Maestri (clarinetto)
Gato Barbieri, Stefano Tedone, Sal Genovese, Sergio Valenti, Eraldo Volonte, Glauco Masetti, Gianni Basso, Lorenzo Nardini (saxophone)
Chet Baker, Oscar Valdambrini, Cicci Santucci, Marino Di Fulvio, Beppe Cuccaro, Al Corvini, Nino Culasso, Fermo Lini (trumpet)
Antonello Vannucchi, Sergio Carnini (hammond organ, lowery organ, vibes)
Franco D'Andrea, Enrico Pierannunzi (piano)
Carlo Zoffoli (marimba, vibes)
Silvano Chimenti, Sergio Coppotelli, Carlo Pes, Enzo Grillini, Pino Rucher (guitar)
Maurizio Majorana, Giovanni Tommaso, Beppe Carta, Berto Pisano (bass)
Enzo Restuccia, Bruno Biriaco, Roberto Podio, Gegè Munari, Ralph Ferraro (drums)
Cico Ciro (percussion)
To be completed ..... : )



Influences: Duke Ellington, Dr. John. To be continued ...
Sounds Like: Piero Umiliani (jazzy, orchestral, bossa, funk, folk, soul, film music, electronic music)
Record Label: Easy Tempo (Right Tempo)
Type of Label: Indie