Italian Library Songbook is the new record series by Four Flies Records. The label, known for its focus on music for the image and the imagination, has, through years of research and curation, earned cult status, helping to bring renewed attention to some of the finest Italian composers. Now, with this new series, Four Flies sets out to build a bridge between the modern and the contemporary: hidden tracks and outtakes from the catalogs of soundtrack masters are polished and reimagined through the work of today’s producers and songwriters, giving rise to new, unreleased songs suspended between pop and club culture — spanning balearic, downtempo, and organic grooves.
For this first release, the choice fell on a composer whose creative trajectory is emblematic of Four Flies' editorial journey: Alessandro Alessandroni. Long known as “the whistle” in Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti westerns for Sergio Leone, Alessandroni was, in fact, much, much more — a refined multi-instrumentalist and forward-thinking composer. In recent years, this has finally been recognized, thanks in part to the work of Four Flies…