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Later this year the label, which Prater runs in cooperation with an Italian partner, Filippo Salvadori, will release a compilation of hard-to-find early Italian futurist sound and writing by artists like Russolo, F.T. Marinetti, Francesco Balilla Pratella, and Silvio Mix, among others. Ampersand has also reissued six experimental-music titles originally released by the Italian imprints Cramps and Multhipla, including albums by legendary British guitarist Derek Bailey, composer John Cage, and the great Italian improv unit Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, which featured trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini and composer Ennio Morricone, best known for his sound tracks to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns.

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