As volume XVIII of the series dedicated to
the Italian Peplum Digitmovies presents the OST, complete
and in full stereo, composed by Franco Micalizzi for the adventure
movie Le Amazzoni Donne D'Amore E Di Guerra directed in 1973
by Alfonso Brescia (under the pseudonym of Al Bradley) and
starring Lincoln Tate ,Lucretia Love, Paola Tedesco, Mirta
Miller, Benito Stefanelli, Genie Woods, Solvi Stübing,
Alberto Dell'Acqua, Roberto Alessandri, Giancarlo Bastianoni,
Frank Braña, Luigi Ciavarro, Pilar Clemens, Sonia Ciuffi,
Fernanda Dall'Acqua, Liliana Fioramonti, Leonilde Simoncelli,
Luigi Antonio Guerra, Barbara Sybilla Hunter, Patrizia Luparia.
The movie tells the story of mythic warrior women, the Amazones,
who are ruled by the ferocious queen Antiope.
They go about hunting men only to use them for hard labours
and for procreation (the newborn males are then suppressed).
Valeria, the valiant daughter of the chieftain, persuades
the inhabitants to defend themselves against the abuses of
power and against injustice.
Four bandits commanded by Zeno are recruited with a reward
of foods, leathers and females.
The Amazones, upset by a successful enemy raid into their
camp, massacre their own prisoners and set out to destroy
Leocos.
Notwithstanding desertions and betrayals, and thanks to their
inexhaustible tricks and unsuspected war abilities, the Leocos
people succeed in killing many Amazones and making others
escape.
Hopeless, but happy to dedicate themselves to agriculture,
the bandits intend to bring up the immature daughters of the
Amazones to peaceful occupations, but at the war cry of their
mothers the little girls follow them.
At the time of the movie's release, the movie with the title
Karate Amazones had such a huge success in Japan that only
in that country a vinyl LP was printed, today very hard to
find, which contains 14 tracks in stereo purposely selected
in those days with a duration of 32:04.
For this CD we have used the stereo master tape of the Japanese
album preserved in the RCA vaults and we could also find all
the stereo master tapes of the original session.
Our complete editing has been fully approved by M° Micalizzi
himself.
Feronia, the main theme introduced in Main Titles (Tr. 1),
a lovely orchestral ballade with a pop arrangement and female
voices with an exotic and erotic flair, is reprised in a slow
version (Tr. 14) and in the unreleased takes with an almost
mystic flavour (Tr. 19, Tr. 24).
The deeds of the provocative female warriors are scored with
violent and dramatic themes reinforced by the sound of distorted
electric guitars (Tr. 3, Tr. 6, Tr. 7, Tr. 12, Tr. 13) and
get alternated with ethnic music like a Sirtaki (Tr. 5) and
with a funny motif with a Middle Age flavour (Tr. 10).
An OST that deserved to be reissued on CD as right and proper
rescue of the Italian Silver Age and of the musical art of
the cool Franco Micalizzi. |
