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| tracks |
01. Escalation
02. Dies irae psichedelico (versione lunga)
03. Collage n. 1
04. Luca's sound
05. Senza respiro
06. Luca, casa Londra
07. Matrimonio
08. Collage n. 2
09. Carillon erotico
10. Primo rito
11. Secondo rito
12. Funerale nero
13. Escalation (versione 2)
14. Secondo rito (versione 2)
15. Escalation (shake)
16. Funerale nero (versione 2)
17. Escalation (versione 3) |
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| further information |
This CD is the first ever release in stereo
8 page colour booklet |
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| description |
Digitmovies is proud to present the complete
original motion picture score, for the first time in full stereo,
composed by Ennio Morricone for the 1968 cult movie Escalation,
directed by Roberto Faenza and starring Claudine Auger, Lino
Capolicchio and Gabriele Ferzetti.
Luca (Lino Capolicchio), son of a prominent Italian industrialist
(Gabriele Ferzetti), lives as a hippy in London, away from duties
and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced
to the family business by any means.
Luca is forced to return to Italy, where he is first jailed
to the psychiatry and undergoes several treatments such as electroshocks.
Luca then marries the sexy female psychiatrist Maria Carla (Claudine
Auger) actually paid by his father to brainwash him and turn
him into a perfect businessman.
After discovering the trick, Luca kills the woman.
After all these procedures, the perfectly integrated, cynic
and amoral Luca gets ready to lead the family business.
Roberto Faenza made his directorial debut with Escalation that
became a great international success.
He approached Ennio Morricone to compose the music for his first
film.
Morricone always took enthusiastically the opportunities to
work with first-time directors who were open to accept new musical
experiments and to try out less controversial musical ideas.
Faenza didn't have any idea regarding the score for his
film, and so he gave Morricone a total freedom.
For this eccentric movie Morricone invented fresh ideas and
new sounds never used in film before.
The experiments included overlaying sound effects produced by
the human mouth, throat and larynx, performed by Carlo Nicchio
and by the composer himself.
This 40th anniversary CD edition contains the complete score
recorded for the movie, thanks to the much-valued help of C.A.M.
in whose archives the original recording session stereophonic
master tapes have been carefully preserved.
The curiosity of our release is the first ever stereo appearance
of this score.
The main theme is an elegant bossa introduced first in Tr. 1
and reprised in the longer end-title version (Tr. 17).
This new stereo version allows the listener to discover in detail
the delicacy of the different sound layers (harpsichord, oboe,
human voice, guitar, celesta, harp) that are overlapping each
other creating a mesmerizing atmosphere.
The notes of main theme re-appear in Tr. 13, an almost giallo-like
version full of tension.
Given the subject of the movie and the period in which the story
takes place, shake music cannot be lacking: we present here
the original uncut version of Dies Irae psichedelico (Tr. 2),
a brilliant psychedelic shake based on the famous 13th century
chant Dies Irae (often cited in M° Morricone's compositions),
featuring the choir I Cantori Moderni by Alessandroni.
Another psychedelic, almost barbaric shake is presented in Tr.
15, using male voice, guitar, muted trumpet and dissonant piano
and organ chords.
Morricone elaborated several classical piece and popular period
music and incorporated them in two musical collages (Tr. 3 and
Tr. 8).
The grotesque sound-effects produced by mouth appear in Luca's
Sound (Tr. 4), a musical idea that emphasizes very well the
bizarre character of the protagonist.
Sitar music (Tr. 5, Tr. 6) played by Alessanro Alessandroni
and the psychedelic ritual pieces (Tr. 10 and Tr. 11) perfectly
underscore the hippie sequences.
A modern, bizarre madrigal (Tr. 7), a sensual lullaby (Tr. 9)
and pieces for band written in jazz-style of the 20's and 30's
(Tr. 12, Tr. 16) just add to the score's diversity, a
true masterpiece from the Silver Age of Italian Film Music. |
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| story |
The generation gap widens when a prominent
industrialist father forces his ruthless corporate mentality
on his hippie son.
Luca feels pressure from his domineering father to follow
in his footsteps.
His father succeeds in shattering his youthful, idealistic
nature, changing the sensitive poet into a robotic clone and
preparing him to take over the family business.
Dad sends the boy to a sexy female psychiatrist who brainwashes
the son with sex and tempers his social acceptability through
"therapy."
The boy marries the doctor before succumbing to the pressures
to adhere to his family's wishes.
Cast:
Lino Capolicchio, Claudine Auger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Didi
Perego, Leopoldo Trieste, Paola Corinti, Dada Gallotti, Jacqueline
Perrier
Director:
Roberto Faenza |
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