Let's chat about the mysterious musician Lesiman

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aka Paolo Renosto

"Colloquio" is on a mix I'm quickly wearing out. Piano over a smooth Beat bassline and congas. Sounds smoky.

I know that he has composed scores for Italian films, but which? And has anyone heard any of his full scores? All I can find is "The Future Sound of Lesiman."

Love
Ben

― ben tausig (datageneral), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. Thank you in advance for your help.

― ben tausig (datageneral), Friday, 25 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Future Sound of Lesiman really is magnificent. It's just library pieces, isn't it, not even film scores. Either way, all incredibly modern sounding, not at all kitch, despite consisting of the same period ingredients as all those other Easy Tempo-type reclamations. Have you noticed how "Moto Centripeto" uses the same drum lead-in as "Colloquio"?

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 28 June 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He seems to get lumped in frequently with easy listening/exotica, but no question is in a different category. Is Moto Centripeto on The Future Sound? And how do you mean, exactly, by library pieces?

― ben tausig (datageneral), Monday, 28 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Moto Centripeto" is track 8 of The Future Sound, 3 tracks before "Colloquio". Also compare tracks 1 & 14 (same bass and drum intro) and tracks 2 & 7 (same bassline throughout).

"Library Music" refers to disposable, anonymous, all-purpose pieces produced in great quantities in the 1950s, 60s & 70s for use, as needed, in industrial films, documentaries, commercials, etc. - the musical equivalent of stock photography. It's a big deal now with exotica collectors. Difficult as it is to imagine, any of these Lesiman miniatures may have been background music to a film promoting a 1973 tool and die trade show in Turin.

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Neat.

But he also produced scores, no?

― ben tausig (datageneral), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I would guess so, but as you say, he was mysterious. (I only have a CDR of The Future Sound, so I don't know whether the liner notes give his bio.)

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like accelerated research is in order here. Off I go!

― ben tausig (datageneral), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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