THE PARALLAX VIEW OST LP RELEASE OUT TODAY MAY 7th, 2021

Cinema Paradiso Recordings is proud to announce the release of the soundtrack to the motion picture 'The Parallax View', on vinyl for the first time ever.

Based on the book by Loren Singer, ‘The Parallax View’ is directed and produced by Alan J Pakula as the second instalment of his Political Paranoia trilogy - alongside Klute (1971) and All the President's Men (1976). With cinematography by Gordon Willis (The Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall) and starring Warren Beatty, this political thriller from 1974 is perhaps even more relevant today than it was back then.

The legendary score by composer Michael Small is regarded as a benchmark in the sound of paranoia thrillers that dominated cinema in the 1970s, revered film critic Pauline Kael hailed it as an essential for all fans of the genre. Now, 47 years later, it will finally be available to own on vinyl.  

“Michael Small’s score raises the spectre of all that is hidden in American history, and superimposes them in a collage that reveals itself to be the unseen hands that shape it.”

— Jim O’Rourke

Available on today, May 7th 2021, Cinema Paradiso’s ‘The Parallax View’ soundtrack includes the infamous brainwashing scene, an influence on countless films and TV shows over the years, including the most recent Watchmen series. 

The single LP luxury gatefold vinyl comes with liner notes that include two essays by Scott Bettencourt and Alexander Kaplan (of Film Score Monthly), which provide a fascinating insight into the making of the film and an analysis of the score.

To be able to include the dialogue of the infamous brainwashing scene - the disembodied voice from Warren Beatty’s “Parallax Test” - was fundamental to our decision to release the soundtrack on vinyl. However, in order to include the segment, we needed authorisation from Paramount and the original voice actor. With permission granted from Paramount, we scoured the film credits but gained no insight into whom the mysterious voice belonged. Researching every other name on the credits hoping to find a contact that might know who the actor was, we settled on Jon Boorstin (Alan Pakula’s assistant on The Parallax View) who we duly contacted.

Jon got straight back to us, “…And yes, I know who that actor is, who welcomes Warren so mellifluously. It was Alan Pakula. He did a temp track, and we got used to it, and never replaced it.“ Thanks to this never-before-revealed information, we were put in touch with Hannah Pakula – Alan’s widow – and obtained permission to use the dialogue which you can hear before the Parallax Test at the start of side B.

The Parallax View will be available in limited edition red, blue or white vinyl of just 500 each. There is also a super limited edition white vinyl Abraham Lincoln ‘card stunt’ sleeve version. Limited to just 200 copies world wide, each copy comes with a removable Abraham Lincoln sticker placed over the “card stunt” depiction on the original cover.

We are also proud to partner with Criterion who have released the Blu-Ray for North America this February, by offering a bundle to US customers of the Blu-Ray plus our limited edition Abraham Lincoln cover Vinyl LP for $79 (US only).

Finally we have 5 extra-super limited edition packages available which includes the Abraham Lincoln cover with white vinyl + a Criterion ‘Parallax View’ Blu-Ray + a First Edition copy of ‘The Parallax View’ book by Loren Singer.

Special Ltd Edition white viny : £28.99 - SHOP HERE

Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white viny : £33.99 - SHOP HERE

Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white vinyl + Criterion Blu-Ray (US only) : $79 - SHOP HERE

Special Ltd Edition Abraham Lincoln with white vinyl + Criterion Blu-Ray + Book :  $140 - SHOP HERE

“The Parallax View embodies a particularly paranoid moment for America, when assassination wounds were still fresh and the President’s bungling burglars were running him out of the White House. Michael Small’s music beautifully captures our hope, our dread, and our nostalgia for truer values. In the Parallax Test sequence, he brilliantly seduces the assassin in all of us. Watching this today, wrapped in Michael’s music, what was once wild fantasy feels at least as credible as the pronouncements of our Kool-Aid drinking Congressmen.”

— Jon Boorstin

Special packages and white vinyl only at www.cinemaparadisorecordings.com
Jon Boorstin assistant to Alan J Pakula available for interview please contact Deborah@cinemaparadisorecords.com

CRUMB SOUNDTRACK TO BE RELEASED ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME AS LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISC FEATURING ART BY ROBERT CRUMB

DATE : Saturday September 28th, 2019

VENUE: Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, London

Cinema Paradiso Records are thrilled to announce that both Robert Crumb and Terry Zwigoff will be doing a joint Q&A at The Troxy on September 28th, and will also both be playing live as part of "R. Crumb's Hollywood Four” alongside Craig Ventresco and David Boeddinghaus, who appear on both Crumb and Ghost World soundtracks. "R. Crumb's Hollywood Four” features Robert Crumb on Mandolin, Terry Zwigoff on Cello, Craig Ventresco on guitar and David Boeddinghaus on piano. 

Cinema Paradiso Recordings will present an immersive screening of both Terry Zwigoff directed films Ghost World and his earlier documentary film Crumb. As well as the Q&A and live music performance, the Troxy will host screenings of both films and accompanying immersive installations. The screening of Crumb comes almost exactly 25 years since the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, on September 10th, 1994.  

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Crumb, Cinema Paradiso Recordings are proud to announce that they will be releasing the soundtrack to the film for the first time ever on vinyl.

Featuring Terry Zwigoff’s selection of tracks from the 1994 film, the vinyl opens with Robert Crumb’s musings on music, “When I listen to old music it’s one of the few times I actually have kind of a love of humanity. You hear the best part of the soul of the common people you know, their way of expressing their connection to eternity or whatever you want to call it. Modern music doesn’t have that and it’s a calamitous loss that people can’t express themselves that way any more you know.”

Alongside the standard black vinyl, there will be also a limited edition picture disc release featuring the art of Robert Crumb, pressed to only 1000 units worldwide. 

After winning ‘Best Documentary’ at Sundance in January ‘95 it was picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics, and later that year opened to the general public first at a tiny 200-seat theatre in New York and then across the country a week later.

With queues for the film still not relenting months after it’s release, Zwigoff’s recollects suggesting the opening of a second room in theatres to Film Forum’s manager Karen Cooper whose reply was simply “That line is what people see and what intrigues them to buy tickets. It's the best advertising there is.” The film played to sold-out rooms on one screen for 9 months straight.

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Cinema Paradiso presents Mueran Humanos’ third LP ‘Hospital Lullabies’, available to order now on CD & Vinyl

Listen/Watch first single ‘La Gente Gris’: http://smarturl.it/mueranhumanos

Mueran Humanos consists of Carmen Burguess (vocals, drum machine, moog synth, samplers) and Tomas Nochteff (vocals, bass, MPC, tapes) who together make propulsive, unfurling Spanish language songs, using avant-garde methods with a punk attitude.

In 2011 the Mueran Humanos self titled LP was unleashed into the world by legendary industrial label Old Europa Cafe in Europe and boutique NYC label Blind Prophet Records taking them from small venues in the German capital to small venues all over the world. Following several single releases (“Culpable” on Southern Records UK, 2012 and “El Cìrculo”, on Vanity Case UK, 2013) - they were signed by ATP in 2015 for their second album "Miseress".

Their third LP “Hospital Lullabies”, is not only a direct and seamless continuation of their second album (with “Epilog'“, the final track from “Miseress” acting as the intro to “Vestido”, first track from “Hospital Lullabies”) but is also a companion piece to a movie of the same name directed by Carmen Burguess.

Hospital Lullabies consists of delicate dream-like moments (Vestido, with its techno-meets-Terry Riley rhythm), motorik cosmic freakouts (Alien), EBM floor-fillers (Los Problemas del Futuro), avant-garde poetry soundscapes (Cuando una Persona Común), and New Order/OMD-esque electro dance-pop ballads (Detrás de una Flor).  

Balanced by feelings of romance and optimism and an overwhelming sense of childlike wonder with a thematic linear thread that ties everything together, and the album really should be approached as a whole rather than a mere collection of songs. This is without question their most refined and cohesive statement so far.

TRACKLISTING

­­­1. Vestido

2. Los problemas del futuro

3. Alien

4. Detrás de una flor

5. Guardián de piedra

6. Cuando una persona común se eleva

7. La gente gris

ORDER “HOSPITAL LULLABIES” ON CD OR VINYL NOW.

MUERAN HUMANOS - SUMMER TOUR SCHEDULE

28-Jun-19 BERLIN, Urban Spree Tickets

30-Jun-19 KULTURKOSMOS MÜRITZ, Fusion Festival

16-Aug-19 BUDAPEST, Fekete Zaj

31-Aug-19 SKOPJE,  Zdravo Mladi

20-Sep-19 BARCELONA, The Garage of Bass Valley

22-Sep-19 MADRID, Sala Sirocco

24-Sep-19 SEVILLA, Sala X

01-Oct-19 MARSEILLE, Molotov

02-Oct-19 ST ETIENNE, Disorder Club

21-23 May 20 AMOUGIES, Wafe Fest

Album release date: 5 July 2019

DATE : Saturday September 28th, 2019

VENUE: Troxy, 490 Commercial Road, London

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Released in 2001, Terry Zwigoff’s feature length film Ghost World, an adaptation of the Daniel Clowes comic series, starred a young Scarlett Johannson alongside Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi – immediately became a success with critics and public alike, remaining a cult classic to this day.

On Saturday 28 September 2019, Cinema Paradiso Recordings will present an immersive screening of both Ghost World and Zwigoff’s earlier documentary film Crumb at the Troxy Cinema, 490 Commercial Road, London. Kicking off the evening with an introduction and Q&A by Terry Zwigoff, the Troxy will host not only both film screenings, but also live performances from soundtrack artists, immersive installations, as well as more to be announced in the coming months.

Cinema Paradiso Recordings - in association with Shanachie - released the Ghost World soundtrack on vinyl for the very first time in April; a double gatefold LP on standard black vinyl, as well as a very special ‘Enid Hair Green’ coloured pressing limited to only 500 units worldwide. With each online order, Cinema Paradiso recordings shipped out the record with a plain yellow bag, matching the one Seymour (Buscemi) gives Enid (Birch) to carry her first blues compilation, as well as a Mongoose postcard and Ghost World Door Hang. The Cinema Paradiso Recordings Ghost World black vinyl will continue to ship with these extras whilst stocks last.

As with his earlier documentary film Crumb, for the Ghost World soundtrack Zwigoff compiled a mixtape of lost Americana every bit as illustrative as K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the 70s and informative as Alan’s Lomax’s Sounds of the South...

Mohammed Rafi’s 1965 Jaan Pehechaan opens the film – a stunning combination of Bollywood brass and strings with the type of grinding Las Vegas lounge rock that Betty Page liked to shake a tassel to. Vince Giordano provided three Prohibition evocative pieces demonstrating just why he was a natural choice for the later Buscemi featuring hit Boardwalk Empire. Craig Ventresco’s Scalding Hot Coffee Rag features on both Crumb and Ghost World’s soundtracks - his raucous yet sensitive playing style is a welcome alternative to the scholarly, delicate approach that usually characterizes ragtime guitar recordings. Ghost World also included the Blueshammer (a fictional band made up of cast members) cock-rock rendition of Pickin' Cotton Blues. Fortunately for us (unlike Seymour) it’s all over soon and the remainder of the soundtrack continues on with rare Americana from Zwigoff’s own 78 record collection.

Crumb features several pieces from Irish born ragtime composer Joseph Lamb and two inclusions from Louisiana born blues singer Geesha Wiley. Her relationship with singer/guitarist Elvie Thomas (included alongside Wiley on Skinny Leg Blues) makes Thelma & Louise seem dull by comparison. Elsewhere, other deep south legends such as Jelly Roll Morton, Dick Justice and James P.Johnson make the Cinema Paradiso Recordings Crumb edition as worthwhile a purchase as Enid’s of County Blues Classics Volume 3. The event at on 28 September at the Troxy with Zwigoff promises to be just as entertaining and memorable as his screen classics.

Crumb will be released on vinyl through Cinema Paradiso Recordings for the very first time later this year.

Together with Shanachie, Cinema Paradiso is proud to present the Ghost World soundtrack, released on vinyl for the very first time, as a double gatefold LP.

Alongside the standard black edition we are also offering a very special ‘Enid Hair Green’ coloured vinyl - limited to just 500 units worldwide.

BOTH VERSIONS ARE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY TO CINEMA PARADISO AND WILL SHIP AT THE END OF APRIL.

A film adaptation of the popular Daniel Clowes comic of the same name, Ghost World starred Scarlett Johannson, Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi, becoming a critically acclaimed cult favourite immediately upon its release in 2001.

As he did with Crumb, director Terry Zwigoff has created a soundtrack as eclectic and riveting as his movie subjects.

The sounds of early jazz and blues play a crucial role in the events of Ghost World - the music heard here is some of the best ever recorded.

Skip James's classic "Devil Got My Woman" from 1931 may be the best-known work on this soundtrack, but it hardly steals the show. Three tracks from weird but riveting jazz-meets-calypso bandleader Lionel Belasco are included; the 70-year-old recordings are so original, they sound timeless. The same praise can be stated of film opener "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" a Bollywood rarity that has elements of surf music, funk, and garage rock. Of course, we also have to hear "Graduation Rap" and Blueshammer's "Pickin' Cotton Blues" two intentionally bad contemporary tracks that make the characters in the movie (and anyone listening to this soundtrack) feel out of place in today's pop culture.

Zwigoff wisely fills out the LP with tracks from his personal 78 record collection, a mix of '20s and '30s string band and blues tunes that are seldom found in compilations (including great cuts by the Dallas String Band, Joe Calicott, and McGee Bros).

The haunting "Theme from Ghost World" composed by David Kitay, finishes off the second LP, perfectly capturing all the bittersweet moods found in the film.

‘ENID HAIR GREEN’ AND BLACK VINYL AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE NOW