Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Revered composer and soundtracking innovator Ennio Morricone turns 80 on Monday, so Listening Post is celebrating his legacy all weekend. Why not start with his latest disciple Spindrift, which has upgraded the master's spaghetti sonics for the new millennium on its imminent full-length debut The West ? If the title didn't give it away, the Los Angeles-based band chose the day after Morricone's birthday as its release date. No wonder, given that Morricone's marriage of Fender guitars and atmospheric orchestration revolutionized film and music, after catapulting Clint Eastwood and his seminal westerns like The Good, [...]