CD 1
01. Bali (Titoli)
02. Il silenzio di Dio
03. Ketjak
04. Donna più
05. The Magic Theme
06. Gamelan ombre cinesi
07. Spazi
08. Tema della purificazione
09. Preghiera di un santone
10. Morire a Bali
11. Bali (Titoli - Take 2)
12. Donna più (versione lenta)
13. The Magic Theme (Chitarra e sitar)
14. Bali (Exotica)
15. The Magic Theme (Sitar e percussioni)
16. Donna più (Shake)
17. Il silenzio di Dio (Flauto e sitar)
18. The Magic Theme (versione sax)
19. Bali (Psichedelica)
20. Morire a Bali (Flauto, sitar e percussioni)
21. Bali (Exotico Beat)
22. The Magic Theme (Slow Reprise)
23. Bali (Bass Reprise)
24. The Magic Theme (versione flauto)
25. Morire a Bali (Sitar, flauto e percussioni)
26. Donna più (Shake Take 2)
27. The Magic Theme (versione organo)
28. Bali (Titoli - Take 3)
CD 2
01. Bali (Titoli - Alternate)
02. Bali (Tema d'amore)
03. Il silenzio di Dio (versione triste)
04. Bali (Tema d'amore 2)
05. Bali (Rituale sacro)
06. Bali (Tema d'amore 3)
07. Bali (Iniziazione)
08. The Magic Theme (versione country)
09. Bali (Shake etnico)
10. Bali (Tema d'amore 3)
11. Bali (Tensione)
12. Spazi (Tristezza)
13. Bali (Rito magico)
14. Spazi (Nostalgia)
15. Bali (Tema principale ripresa)
16. Bali (Tema sacro)
17. Bali (Tema principale ripresa 2)
18. Bali (Rito magico 2)
19. Bali (Celebrazione)
20. Bali (Tema sacro 2)
21. Il silenzio di Dio (versione romantica)
22. Il silenzio di Dio (versione triste 2)
23. Bali (Tema sacro 3)
24. Bali (Primo spazio)
25. Il silenzio di Dio (versione triste 3)
26. Bali (Tema sacro 4)
27. Bali (Secondo spazio)
28. Bali (Tema principale ripresa 3)
29. Bali (Incontro d'amore Suite) *
CD 1:
Tracks 01-10: The Original Album Recording (for the first
time on CD)
Tracks 11-28: The Film Score (previously unreleased)
CD 2:
Tracks 01-28: The Alternate Film Score (previously unreleased)
* The 1975 movie version alternate score (previously issued
on the very rare Cinevox MDF 064 45rpm single) |
Digitmovies proudly presents on a double
CD set the complete OST in mono and in full stereo composed
and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini for the movie Bali directed
in 1970 by Ugo Liberatore and starring Umberto Orsini, Laura
Antonelli, John Steiner, Petra Pauly, Johannes Schaaf, Ettore
Manni, Ilona Staller.
On the island of Bali, Glenn and Carlo, both life-long friends,
are co-writing a book.
The first one, afflicted by depression, desperately searches
for an interior equilibrium, whereas the other one spends
the days pulling his friend's leg. Daria, Carlo's wife, understands
the interior torment of Glenn and offers him her love.
But the act reveals to be useless, Carlo's jealousy explodes
and Glenn finally commits suicide.
This motion picture had enormous problems so that the movie,
released in 1970, had scarce success.
A few years later some scenes were reshot by director Paolo
Heusch with the presence of the actress Ilona Staller and
re-edited by producer Alfredo Bini so that the movie was re-released
in the theatres with the title Incontro D'Amore - Bali.
The Italian DVD available on the market by Surf Video Company
contains the 1975 version with the added scenes and with a
narrator's voice which tells the story with various flashbacks.
The movie was shot on the island of Bali in incredibly exotic
locations among the blue sea and the green lands where very
ancient sacred temples appear in different scenes.
The famous jazz musician, pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini
was signed up to write the score.
At that time Cinevox Record issued a 33 rpm album which contained
10 tracks in mono with a total duration of only 24:29.
We have now found the master tapes of the original session
with all the music recorded in mono so that our CD attains
a duration of 73:24,
but there's more:
By means of a thorough search in the Cinevox vaults we have
found other master tapes of the OST in very good conditions
and even in full stereo... and we did at first think that
they contained stereo mixes of the same mono versions, but
this was not really the case.
So... very big discovery:
Giorgio Gaslini had recorded an alternate score by using a
symphonic orchestra that reprises the main themes, but with
different orchestrations!
So, due to the size of the discovered material, we have decided
to release a double CD set:
On CD 1 (mono) the OST is more jazzy, we could say with a
Combo Sound, played by a small orchestra, and the 1970 LP
album featured selections in Beat music style - apart some
intervals of traditional Balinesian music - more suitable
for an easy listening experience in those days.
The Bali Theme strongly dominates, a romantic cue with a little
epic flavour which in CD 2 (73:50) returns in an exciting
symphonic Beat version for orchestra and the choir of Cantori
Moderni di Alessandroni.
At the end of CD 2 we have also included a suite with the
two tracks Incontro D'Amore and "Smetti Di Piovere (this
last one with the remarkable performance of Edda Dell'Orso)
issued in 1975 on the very rare Cinevox 45 rpm single.
This is the added OST that Gaslini wrote and recorded for
the '75 movie re-release and it includes an unreleased passage
with dramatic strings for the scene where the protagonist
stabs his wife.
For Bali Giorgio Gaslini has composed and conducted a really
impressive amount of wonderful...love... sacred... beat...
ethnic... music.
In few words:
During almost two and a half hours of listening it will be
like flyingto the exotic Bali on the wings of the magic notes
by Gaslini, and this double CD set is a right and proper rescue
of the Italian Silver Age and of the musical art of Giorgio
Gaslini. |
