NEW/MINT/SEALED MS. 45 OST DEATH WALTZ RARE SUBSCRIBER EDITION VINYL LP w/POSTER

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eBay listing template 2013 Artist
JOE DELIA
Title
MS. 45
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Item
12" Vinyl LP
Released February 24, 2014 Country UK
Label Death Waltz Recording Company
The Art of Soundtracks
Catalog
DW021
Condition New, mint, original factory sealed condition
Info
RARE SUBSCRIBER EDITION PRESSING LIMITED TO 300 WORLDWIDE.
White & black snake effect 180g vinyl.
Giant fold-out poster and booklet.

Ms. 45 score by Joe Delia.
Exclusive cover art by Alice X. Zhang.
Never before release score to the classic Abel Ferrara exploitation film.
Remastered from the original tapes, this score mixes NY no wave, disco and soundscapes to create a truly unsung masterpiece.
Gatefold tip-on sleeve featuring heavyweight coloured vinyl also includes a booklet with exclusive sleeve notes from Joe Delia.

Like Abel Ferrara, Death Waltz Recording Company are not prone to shying away from the more extreme corners of culture, and are delighted to be presenting a true underground classic for the first time ever. Ferrara’s pictures often tread the line between grindhouse trash and art-films with insightful social commentary – and unflinching realism – and Ms. 45 is his most notorious film, with much of its power coming from Joe Delia’s grimy yet haunting music. A sparse piano motif initially creates a lonely voice for the (mute) heroine but it’s overshadowed by wailing trumpet, electric guitar, and menacing synths that paint a disturbing musical picture of the world she inhabits.

Delia’s music is so great at creating a vivid image in your head and you begin to imagine the grubby streets, the sleazy sex-shops, the leering onlookers, with it building and building until it reaches sensory assault. The instruments sound as violent as the acts on screen, as loud synth stings ring out like gunshots, edgy jazz beats unnerve you, and a repeating brass motif becomes a theme for violence and vengeance – even during the awesome ‘Dance Party’. You may need a shower after listening, but you’ll be right back to play it again and again

Incredibly this soundtrack has NEVER been released in any format, we went back to the original master tapes and worked with composer Joe Delia to clean up the original elements.

Tracklist
Side A
01  Window Breaking  3:17
02  Sunrise  1:31
03  Piano Choice  1:49
04  Work Theme (2 Pianos)  1:55
05  Work Theme (Orchestrated)  2:18
06  First Attack  1:22
07  Zoe Sees Attacker  0:45
08  Kills Peter  0:57
09  What's The Matter Thana  1:14
10  Voices 2  5:55
Side B
01  Bass And Drums Thana Walking  1:20
02  Knock On The Door  1:13
03  Thana In The Mirror V2  1:14
04  Arab V2  1:26
05  Central Park V2  3:12
06  Killing Phil 2 V2  1:10
07  Pimp And Whore Pt1 V2  4:18
08  Pimp And Whore Pt2 V2  2:36
09  Ms 45 Dance Party  5:29

Credits
Artwork – Alice X. Zhang
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Abe Speller
Engineer – Larry Alexander

Score, Composed By, Liner Notes, Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Mini Moog], Synthesizer [ARP Odyssey], Synthesizer [ARP String Ensemble] – Joe Delia
Tenor Saxophone – Artie Kaplan

Notes
The spine reads: F*ck Off ! You Heard Me Get F*cked ! Get Bent

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Bio
Joe Delia is an American composer associated with cinema and television. He is known for dark and atmospheric film scores and has composed scores for a wide range of film and television projects. His feature film credits include several directed by Abel Ferrara.

Born in Brooklyn, Delia began his career as a teenager in the late sixties, playing piano and singing with his group The Bruthers, who signed to RCA Records and released the 1966 single "Bad Way to Go". Managed by promoter Sid Bernstein, The Bruthers went on to work as a backup band on tours with rock 'n' roll artists Stevie Wonder, The Crystals, Chuck Berry, Little Eva and the Isley Brothers. "Bad Way to Go" was included on the compilation album, Pebbles, Volume 8. Bad Way to Go, compiling The Bruthers' sole single and some unreleased studio recordings, was released Sundazed Records in 2003.

During the seventies, Delia studied composition, arranging, piano and bass viol. He was later chosen for the position of Composer in Residence at Sarah Lawrence College for two years under the direction of Shirley Kaplan and June Ekert. He eventually made his way into the studio scene in New York City, playing keyboards and writing arrangements for such diverse artists as Dusty Springfield, Grace Slick, Janis Ian, Pat Benatar, Helen Schneider, The Left Banke, Cory Daye and Engelbert Humperdinck, as well as writing jingles and scoring many industrial films. In Denmark, Delia is best known for his collaboration in the early 1980s with the popular Danish songwriter Kim Larsen when Larsen unsuccessfully tried to break into the American music industry. The eventual result was two albums credited to Kim Larsen and Jungle Dreams; the albums both sold well – but only in Denmark.

Among Delia's earliest experiences in the music business were co-writing and singing for The Muppets' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show., composing jingles for major advertising campaigns, and co-composing a children's musical titled Lollapalooza which was produced by Joseph Papp and Bernard Gertsen for the New York Shakespeare festival.

After scoring two low-budget features for director Abel Ferrara during the 1970s, the two teamed up on a third film, Ms. 45 (1980). This working relationship continued for over twenty years, resulting in scores for most of Ferrara's body of work, including China Girl, King of New York, Dangerous Game, The Addiction, The Funeral, Subway Stories and The Blackout, on which Delia wrote the original score and collaborated on songs with rap artist Schoolly D. Delia appears as himself in A Short Film About the Long Career of Abel Ferrara, (which is included the Artisan DVD release of King of New York). Delia wrote music for a 1985 episode of Miami Vice, directed by Ferrara, in which Delia makes an uncredited appearance as a musician.

Other credits during the nineties include the HBO film The Enemy Within; and Drunks, starring Richard Lewis and Faye Dunaway. He also scored the television series Dellaventura, starring Danny Aiello, and scored the second season of the sci-fi series War of the Worlds. He composed music for twenty-six episodes of the BBC children's show Growing Up Wild/Madison's Adventures, was musical director for Richard Belzer's HBO and Showtime specials, and scored the Emmy Award-winning ten-part series Lost Civilizations for NBC/Time–Life.

Delia's later film scores include Jenniphr Goodman's comedy hit The Tao of Steve, released by Sony Classics; Fever, by Alex Winter; Ricky 6, written and directed by Peter Filardi; A Jersey Tale, by Michael Tolajian; My Best Friend's Wife, by Doug Finelli; Bitter Jester, produced by Richard Belzer; Bridget, by Amos Kollek; the jazz segments for the PBS film Partners of the Heart, by Bill Duke; and Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (a prequel to Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way) directed by Michael Bregman and executive produced by Martin Bregman. He composed theme music for a season of Pee Wee's Playhouse, while continuing to score feature films.

He composed for three seasons on the History Channel's most successful series Digging for the Truth, and wrote the score for the Discovery Channel series Weapon Masters.

Delia scored the PBS series Nova, the BBC web series Becoming Human, National Geographic Channel's "Pythons", and the PBS/National Geographic Channel joint productions ""Blue Holes, and King Solomon's Mines".

Delia toured internationally with rock singer David Johansen, in the 1980s, producing and co-writing his solo album Sweet Revenge, and continued with the co-creation of the Buster Poindexter Show. Over the next five years he served as musical director and piano player for the live show, and is credited as musical director and co-arranger of the self-titled Buster Poindexter album which yielded the hit song "Hot Hot Hot".

Partnering with Scandinavian singing star Kim Larsen in the early eighties, Delia produced and co-wrote two albums that topped the pop charts throughout Europe, including a 1981 number one single in France ("Donnez Moi du Feu"), sold out tours, and platinum albums in France, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

In the early nineties, Delia produced a series of albums on BMG/Music Masters for jazz greats Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard, Jim Hall, Louis Bellson and his own album Scene of the Crime, which he produced with Max Weinberg (of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band).

In 2010, Joe Delia toured with his new band Thieves, featuring Steven Roues, Billy Roues, Klyph Black, James Benard and Pj Delia.

Discography
with The Bruthers
"Bad Way to Go" / "Bad Love" (1966, RCA)
Bad Way to Go (2003, Sundazed)
as Killer Joe
Scene of the Crime (1991, Hightone)
as Joe Delia & Thieves
Smoke & Mirrors (2011, Amusing Muse)
Soundtracks
The Blackout (1997, Mother)
Fever (2000, Pacific Time Entertainment)
The Tao of Steve: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000, Milan Records)

Ms. 45, also known as Angel of Vengeance, is a 1981 American low-budget exploitation film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoë Tamerlis Lund. Inspired by films such as 1973's Thriller - en grym film and 1974's Death Wish, the film is a rape and revenge story about Thana, a mute woman who becomes a misandristic spree killer (not strictly a vigilante) after she is raped twice in one day when going home from work. It was critically maligned on its theatrical release, but is now generally highly regarded among fans of underground and independent film.

It was acquired by Alamo Drafthouse Films in October 2013 and remastered in HD from the original negatives. The distributor released the film on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy in March 2014.

While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a mysterious, masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana, her name an allusion to Greek god of death Thanatos, hits this second assailant with a small sculpture then bludgeons him to death with an iron, and carries his body to the bathtub. She goes to work the next day, and after encountering working with an iron, watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, she goes into shock, which worries her co-workers. However, when she looks at the trashbin at her office, she decides to dismember the burglar's corpse and throw the parts away in various locations of the city.

After being sent home, she dismembers the burglar's body, then keeps his .45 caliber M1911A1 pistol, puts the pieces into plastic garbage bags, and then stores them in her fridge. After cleaning her bathtub, she decides to take a shower, but as she strips, she begins to hallucinate the first attacker in the mirror grabbing her breast. This puts her into shock, and notices that organs and body fluids from the burglar are overflowing in the drain. Her neighbor, an old, recently widowed woman named Mrs. Nasone who owns a small dog named Phil, also starts to notice her odd behavior.

On her walk home from work the next day, Thana is noticed by a young man on the street while she is disposing of one of the bagged body parts; thinking that she accidentally dropped the bag, he retrieves it, frightening her. He chases her through the alleys of the city, and fearing another sexual assault, she fatally shoots him when she is cornered by him. The event furthers her impulse for vengeance. While running home from the incident, Mrs. Nasone notices she ran up the stairs violently and started throwing up. She insists that she call a doctor for Thana, and her dog starts to become attracted to her fridge. Thana escorts her out of her apartment while still in shock.

As the limbs start to bring attention towards the media, Albert brings her into his office and notices she hasn't been selling and feeling well lately. He decides to invite her to a Halloween party that he is throwing for work, and tells her that there will be "many boys there [her] age." She responds to him in writing, saying "I'll try."

As her vengeance increases, she starts regularly targeting and killing multiple men, such as a bisexual fashion photographer, a pimp who assaults a prostitute because of debt, multiple members of a gang, a Saudi Arabian businessman and his limousine driver, and even drives a recently dumped salesman to suicide after her gun jams.

Albert begins to notice that she ditched work after going to dinner with her co-workers, resulting in her co-workers having to finish her work. However, she promises to go to the party with him in exchange for staying out of trouble for her absence. She also presumably kills Mrs. Nasone's dog after she notices that he is attracted to the smell of the burglar's limbs, and leaves a note saying that he ran away and will probably find his way back home soon.

At the party, she dresses up as a nun with red lipstick and attends with Albert as a couple. Meanwhile, Mrs. Nasone goes into her apartment and finds the burglar's dismembered head, and determines that she killed Phil, and tells police that is at a party with her co-workers. While going upstairs in private, Albert tries to seduce her, and in revenge for his borderline-sexual behavior towards her in the past, she shoots him. The party stops and her co-workers run upstairs towards Thana, but then soon realize that she was the murderer when she steps out of the room with her pistol. Thana then begins a shooting spree and targets many of the men present. Her co-worker Laurie notices the knife that was used to cut the cake, and without Thana noticing, is stabbed by her behind her back, but not before turning around to acknowledge who it is. She screams in pain, then falls to the ground and dies.

After the party massacre, Mrs. Nasone is seen crying, in memorial for her husband, Thana, and Phil. However, outside her apartment door, Phil is shown running up the stairs and waiting by the door for Mrs. Nasone to let him in, which concludes Thana didn't kill Phil like it was originally presumed.

Cast
Zoë Tamerlis Lund as Thana
Albert Sinkys as Albert
Darlene Stuto as Laurie
Helen McGara as Carol
Nike Zachmanoglou as Pamela
Abel Ferrara as First Rapist
credited as "Jimmy Laine"
Peter Yellen as The Burglar
Editta Sherman as Mrs. Nasone
Vincent Gruppi as Heckler on Corner
S. Edward Singer as The Photographer
James Albanese as Nick
Bogey the Dog as Phil

Many years later Zoë Tamerlis described how minimal the script was, which is uncharacteristic of Ferrara's later films.

In 1983, the film was released on VHS by U.S.A. Home Video in its uncut form.

Ms. 45 was released on DVD in the U.S. on April 25, 2000, by Image Entertainment, but was reedited for DVD release. The reedit removes less than a minute total. The cuts include changes to the first rape featuring Ferrara's cameo, which is split by an insert shot from a later scene. The second rape is more drastically cut, omitting a line "This oughta make you talk, huh?" The climatic Halloween party shoot-out was also recut to remove an on-screen murder, which now occurs off screen.

The uncut DVD / Blu-ray / digital copy is now available in the US, published by Drafthouse Films.

- wikipedia