Ennio Morricone

La Femme‘s Sacha Got and Marlon Magné talked to us about the blender of influences on their terrific new album ‘Paradigmes.‘

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke made a fourth Radio Hour mix that he curated for Sonos Radio’s Sonos Sound System station. The 76-minute mix also includes tracks by Bernard Herrmann, Luke Abbott, LEILA, and more.

Ennio Morricone, who died in July, would’ve turned 92 today and in tribute, a new 25-minute documentary on the Maestro has been released…

‘Morricone Segreto’ features seven unreleased tracks, as well as rare pieces and alternate takes, all from the Maestro’s peak period (1969-1980).

Deerhoof weave together covers of songs by The B-52’s, Voivod, Velvet Underground, John Williams, Eddie Grant, Sun Ra and much more on this crazy, amazing covers medley album.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums from Billy Nomates and Ganser, plus New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies gets the box set treatment, a new series of Ennio Morricone compilations, and Edsel unearth a “lost” EP.

Given Andrew Bird’s talent for whistling, his choice to cover the whistle-filled theme of the 1964 Spaghetti Western film was a particularly fitting choice.

You can also read tributes to Morricone from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Edgar Wright, Steven Van Zandt, Chance the Rapper, New Order, Duran Duran, Biz Markie, The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, Jean Michel Jarre, and more.

The legendary composer died in Rome at age 91.

“Ennio Morricone composed the magnificent score for my movie The Thing,” Carpenter explains. “Because we weren’t finished editing the movie, Ennio had to score without seeing a complete picture. When we put everything together, there were gaps dramatically where I would have wanted music. So I went off and scored a couple of simple pieces that filled in.”