Sunday 31 July 2022

Library composer Romolo Grano








From discogs:

Italian composer, conductor, pianist, cellist, oboe and cor anglais player.
Born in Venezia. Studied at Conservatorio B. Marcello di Venezia.


Some very experimental music and some very generic music, all mixed together.  I guess recently Canopo put together a bunch of themed compilations of his old library music in which many styles are mixed.  The rym discography is a little bit more complete with these later albums.  Nonetheless he was unbelievably prolific.  The more modern stuff is virtually abstract musique concrete really, while the one soundtrack (L'amaro Caso etc.) is so generic as to make me want to weep, and wonder if it was written by a computer program with all the right arrangements for orchestra, themes, etc. Of course with these movie productions that's exactly what they want, lest they lose any money at all at the box office from a wrongly placed note or two.  God forbid you'd offend anyone's ears. Which in fact he was guilty of often enough in the early 70s library stuff (eg most of the tracks on Contempora).

From the Topical CD compilation, the Space Machine:


From the 1969 Religioni Vol.1, Omaggio al '700:


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