Digitmovies presents on CD the complete OST
in full stereo by Ennio Morricone for the movie Eat It directed
in 1968 by Francesco Casaretti and starring Paolo Villaggio,
Frank Wolff, Giampiero Albertini, Silvia Dionisio, Monica
Herfert, Rossella Bergamonti, Massimo Zaccariello, Giancarlo
Badessi, Ezio Marano, Alicia Brandet, Antonietta Fiorito,
Bruno Cattaneo, Orso Maria Guerrini.
An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for
his canned meat product Eat It!.
In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced
himself to two functions only:
Eating huge amounts of food and making love.
So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by
making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac.
Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts".
The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible
amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow!
Our CD is possible thanks to the help of the friends at C.A.M.
in whose archives the stereo master tapes of the original
sessions conducted by Bruno Nicolai gave us the chance to
discover very interesting material.
For the grotesque plot Ennio Morricone has written a music
score based on a romantic and classical-style bossa theme
for strings and rhythm group (very similar to the theme he
had created for Escalation), with the addition of a lullaby
performed by an electronic keyboard, which is introduced in
Titoli and reprised with variations in Tr. 2, Tr. 3 ,Tr. 7,
Tr. 11, Tr. 13, Tr. 14, Tr. 18, Tr. 20.
Morricone has written refined lounge music which reflects
the sounds of those days in Tr. 4, Tr. 15, Tr. 17, an Afro-Beat
shake (Tr. 6), a dance floor music based on the Dies Irae
(Tr. 12), another stunning experimental shake (Tr. 20) (issued
in mono on the rare original 45 rpm single), a tango (Tr.
5), suspended and mysterious music in a kind of science-fiction
style (Tr. 8, Tr. 9, Tr. 10, Tr. 16) perfectly suited to describe
the bizarre side of the plot.
Another proper rescue and preservation of the Italian Silver
Age and of the music by the mythical Ennio Morricone. |
