Amoeba Music

By J Poet

Ennio Morricone is one of the few musicians to have invented a new genre. His soundtracks for a series of Italian western films by director Sergio Leone, many starring Clint Eastwood, created “spaghetti Western” music by mixing surf guitar, classical, pop, rock, electronic, avant-garde, and Italian music and sprinkling it with samples of birdcalls, gunshots, footsteps, animal noises, and whistling. The sound became as popular as the films they were part of. The soundtracks for A Fistful of Dollars (1964 RCA), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966 EMI ), For a Few Dollars More (1967 RCA), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968 RCA) and A Fistful of Dynamite (2007 MSI:Cinevox Italy) became... Read More

City Of Origin:

Rome, Italy

Genre:

Classical, Contemporary, Soundtracks, Film Score

Birthdate:

11/10/1928