***Years in the making—Battleship Potemkin original re-score—was composed by Morricone Youth for a live scoring of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet silent film. The score was first performed on June 14, 2015 at the Flux Factory in Astoria, Queens and recorded from 2016 to 2020. Edition of 500 copies. Devon E. Levins - Guitars, Mandolin, Vocals John Castro - Bass, Vocals Dan Kessler - Piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Synths Sami Stevens - Vocals Kenny Shaw - Drums Eric Reeves - Drums Evan Francis - Tenor Sax, Clarinet Aaron Bahr - Trumpet Conrad Harris - Violin Recorded and mixed by Scott Hollingsworth at Golden Curve Sound Studio (Roscoe, NY) Mastered By Chris Muth at Taloowa Mastering & Vinyl Cutting in Yonkers, NY Artwork by Rene Fennern Goldberg Design by Brent Stickels/YYES Translations by Olena Moiseeva
LP $21.95
11/24/2023
***DEVON GOLDBERG's original score to director Kire Paputts' 2019 dark comedy feature-length film The Last Porno Show, performed by MORRICONE YOUTH, along with COCHEMEA GASTELUM (SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS), SEAN MCCAUL (PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE), KAREN WALTUCH (WILCO, JIM O'ROURKE, JG THIRLWELL) and SCOTT HOLLINGSWORTH (WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY). Limited eddition of 500 copies with download card.
LP $19.95
05/08/2020
***MORRICONE YOUTH return with a live re-score of Mario Bava's 1968 Italian comic series Danger: Diabolik. The fifth release in the NYC film soundtrack band's live re-score series. Limited edition of 500 copies on blue vinyl.
LP $19.95
10/19/2018
***Original live re-score composed and performed by MORRICONE YOUTH to F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans. Pressed on sunrise orange vinyl in an edition of 500 copies. Includes a download. Devon E. Levins - Guitars, Mandolin, Keyboards John Castro - Bass, Vocals, Keyboards Dan Kessler - Keyboards, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Melodica Additional contributions: Fraser Campbell - Tenor Saxophone, Flute Evan Francis - Tenor/Baritone Saxophone, Flute David Spinley - Saxophone, Clarinet Jefferson Rabb - Keyboards Sami Stevens - Vocals Dreiky Caprice - Vocals Karla Moheno - Vocals Brian Kantor - Drums Kenny Shaw - Drums Eric Reeves - Drums Greg O'Keefe - Drums Frank Molina - Drums Pauline Kim Harris - Violin Jenny Tidball - Cello Francesca Dardani - Violin Adriana Molello - Violin Elise Frawley - Viola Xue Yang Lee - Cello
LP $17.75
09/08/2017
***Original live re-score composed and performed by MORRICONE YOUTH inspired by George Miller's Classic 1979 Australian Dystopian Action Film. Features Devon E. Levins (guitars, keyboards), John Castro (bass, vocals, keyboards), Dan Kessler (analog synths and keyboards). Brian Kantor (drums), Fraser Campbell (saxophone, flute, keyboards), Aaron Bahr (trumpet), Karla Rose Moheno (vocals), Scott Hollingsworth (keyboards, percussion). Edition of 500 copies on coke bottle colored vinyl.Notes: Brian Kantor also drums with Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think, Higgins, Fruit Bats, Yellowbirds and Sam Cohen. The synths and keyboards used were all analog, mostly owned by Joe McGinty (of Psychedelic Furs/Loser's Lounge) and maintained in Carousel Vintage Recording Studio where we tracked with engineer Steve Silverstein (regular TapeOp contributor and member of Christmas Decorations). The album was mixed by World Inferno Friendship Society founder/keyboardist Scott Hollingsworth (who has also engineers and mixes for Sean Lennon, Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger and Yuka Honda, amongst others).
LP $17.75
01/27/2017
***MORRICONE YOUTH was formed in 1999 with a mission statement to compose, re-interpret, perform and/or record "music written for the moving image" (film/tv soundtracks, library music, etc.) in all incarnations from playing shows dedicated to specific composers/film genres in rock clubs/performance spaces with projections to live scoring films in theaters. Over the years, they've released CDs, toured and had residencies at the Knitting Factory, CBGB, Tonic and, most recently, Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned the group to write an original score to Hitchcock's The Lodger performed Halloween 2013. Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned a piece for its Marcel Duchamp exhibit in 2012. Band members have scored for documentaries, short films, etc. and include current/past members of bands CREEDLE, CRASH WORSHIP, PAIN TEENS, PRONTO (Wilco side band), aMINIATURE and THE RUGBURNS. Morricone Youth's original six song (31:44 min.) score for Lotte Reiniger's 1926 German animated silent film is now available in an edition of 500 copies with download.
12" $14.25
09/02/2016
***MORRICONE YOUTH was formed in 1999 with a mission statement to compose, re-interpret, perform and/or record "music written for the moving image" (film/tv soundtracks, library music, etc.) in all incarnations from playing shows dedicated to specific composers/film genres in rock clubs/performance spaces with projections to live scoring films in theaters. Over the years, they've released CDs, toured and had residencies at the Knitting Factory, CBGB, Tonic and, most recently, Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg. Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned the group to write an original score to Hitchcock's The Lodger performed Halloween 2013. Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned a piece for its Marcel Duchamp exhibit in 2012. Band members have scored for documentaries, short films, etc. and include current/past members of bands CREEDLE, CRASH WORSHIP, PAIN TEENS, PRONTO (Wilco side band), aMINIATURE and THE RUGBURNS. Morricone Youth's original six song (25-min.) score for George A. Romero's 1968 Zombie classic in an edition of 500 copies with download. Mastered at 45 rpm.
12" $14.25
09/02/2016