Every Album Is a Journey

The Post-Modern Spaghetti-Western Encyclopedia

La Resistance  ·  2019  ·  dna-productions

A sweeping, encyclopedic vision of the spaghetti-western as a living, breathing musical form. Drawing on everything from Ennio Morricone's trumpet-and-whistle minimalism to the wall-of-sound orchestrations of contemporary Hollywood, this album leaves nothing on the table. Where the California Kingdom series maps the geography of the American West, The Encyclopedia maps the soul of the genre itself — its menace, its loneliness, its savage beauty, and its moments of unexpected grace.

No other album in the post-modern spaghetti-western canon attempts this breadth of scope. It is the definitive La Resistance statement.

The Price of Blood, Chapter 1

Lionel Cohen  ·  2025  ·  dna-productions

The first chapter establishes the threat. Cinematic and relentless, this record signals a new maturity in the La Resistance sound — broader in scope, more nuanced in texture, and more urgent in its storytelling.

The Price of Blood, Chapter 2

Lionel Cohen  ·  2025  ·  dna-productions

The reckoning arrives. Chapter 2 resolves the tensions of the first in a finale that is both devastating and haunting — each track a wound that refuses to close. Features "A Rose in the Dirt," "Last Farewell Beneath the Stars," and the album-closing title track.

A Hundred Miles to Hell, Tome One

La Resistance  ·  2016  ·  dna-productions

The journey begins in heat and silence. Tome One establishes the arc with slow-burning openers before unleashing a barrage of action cues, chase sequences, and moments of eerie calm that feel lifted directly from a lost Sergio Corbucci picture. Standout closing track: "Something in Our Blood."

A Hundred Miles to Hell, Tome Two

La Resistance  ·  2016  ·  dna-productions

The second half of this blood-soaked diptych goes deeper and darker. Built around a recurring motif of inevitable confrontation, Tome Two features 18 tracks including the haunting "Already in My Grave" and the apocalyptic closer "It's a Dying World."

Les Tricoteuses, Tome I

La Resistance  ·  November 11, 2011  ·  20 Tracks  ·  dna-productions

A soundtrack without a film — or perhaps a film without pictures. Tome One establishes an imaginary world of bounty hunters, cantinas, border crossings, and narrow escapes. The music fuses Morricone and Bacalov's classic idiom with the cinematic palette of modern film composers, landing somewhere wholly its own.

Les Tricoteuses, Tome II

La Resistance  ·  November 11, 2011  ·  20 Tracks  ·  dna-productions

The companion piece, released simultaneously. Where Tome One deals in menace and movement, Tome Two lingers on aftermath and reflection — the cost of survival in a world where every sunrise might be your last. Together, the two volumes form one of the most complete Western musical statements of the decade.

The Meticulous Simplicity

La Resistance  ·  2006  ·  dna-productions

The debut. Where lesser composers pile on ornamentation, The Meticulous Simplicity does exactly what its title promises — stripping the spaghetti-western idiom to its essential core, then polishing each remaining element to a mirror shine. The record that started everything.

Only Because

La Resistance  ·  2007  ·  dna-productions

The single that turned heads. A meditation on solitude and moral ambiguity — two notes that could have been written by Morricone himself, if Morricone had been born in France and studied in New York. Short, devastating, and impossible to shake.