Digitmovies proudly presents for the very
first time on CD the complete OST in mono by Gianni Ferrio
for the spy movie Black Box Affair: Il Mondo Trema directed
in 1966 by James Harris (Marcello Ciorciolini) and starring
Craig Hill, Teresa Gimpera, Louis Marin, Rolf Tasna, Patricia
Car, Valentino Macchi, Georges Rigaud, George Wang, Luis Marín,
Rossella Bergamonti, Moa Tahi, Herbert Montureano.
An airplane crashes in Spain.
The Russian as well as the Chinese government take care of
the events because on board there was a 'Black box'
containing precious and dangerous devices for the whole world.
Joe Grant (Hill), who works for the American counter-espionage,
is assigned to the rescue with continuous sensational developments
where he travels to many resorts from Spain to Italy, and
also visits the Côte d'Azur and Vienna.
Gianni Ferrio is one of the big names of film music and of
the Italian television entertainment of the last fifty years.
This CD is possible thanks to the friends at C.A.M. in whose
archives the complete master tapes in mono of the original
session have been stored.
For the fans of 'Amatriciana pasta sauce espionage'
and for those of the Lounge and Beat music this CD will represent
something special.
M° Ferrio has written a cool Shake main theme varied
in every possible way and introduced in the version of Titoli
with vocals of I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni (Tr. 1) and
reprised in Finale (Tr. 22).
This wild motif returns in different arrangements with flugelhorns
in Tr. 3, Tr. 5, Tr. 7, romantic and suspended with harp,
celesta and flute (Tr. 11), with electric guitars for scenes
of the young people dancing in a discotheque (Tr. 13), with
harpsichord, rhythm group, flute and electric bass (Tr. 15),
and with faster tempo, flugelhorns and organ effects (Tr.
17).
M° Ferrio alternates this recurring motiv with dramatic
music as for the scene with the plane going down in Spain
(Tr. 2) and action music (Tr. 16, Tr. 19), as well as with
romantic themes which act as background to the Casanova side
of the protagonist (Tr. 4, Tr. 6, Tr. 8, Tr. 14, Tr. 21) according
to the place where the secret agent travels to there is also
music with geographical colours like a sweet French waltz
(Tr. 10), Latin American music (Tr. 12), a Vienna style piece
of music (Tr. 20).
Our CD ends with the off-vocal versions of Titoli and Finale.
A proper tribute to the Italian Silver Age and to the musical
art of Gianni Ferrio. |
