Portland band Federale makes original cinematic music inspired by classic spaghetti Western films, and the genre's most exulted composer, the late, great Ennio Morricone. July 10, 2025.

The Dollars trilogy by Sergio Leone are some of the most iconic Westerns of all time, let alone among those out of Italy, but ...

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his “60 Year Of Music World Tour”, in Milan, Italy.

In 2012, he made one of the greatest Spaghetti Westerns of all time when he made Django Unchained at a time when nobody was ...

Five years ago, he teamed up with the acclaimed Italian composer and arranger Daniele Luppi to write and craft some new Spaghetti Western music. The result of that collaboration, titled Rome ...

The music in any Quentin Tarantino film is an adventure unto itself, a tradition that continues with “Django Unchained,” Tarantino’s movie opening on Christmas Day.. The soundtrack album was ...

Music Spaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91. July 6, 2020. FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, ...

His music punctuated the long silences typical of the Spaghetti Westerns, with the characters locked in close-ups, staring at each other and waiting for their next moves.