Premiere CD release of lush Stelivio Cipriani score, written
under the influence of the composer's seminal romantic works
such as Anonimo veneziano and Dedicato a una stella.
Il Giardino dell'Eden (also known as Eden no sono)
was a obscure Japanese-Italian co-production directed by Yasuzo
Masumura, who used to study in Rome.
The story is set in Italy, where teenaged thief Michael fells
for a well-to-do girl, Alessandra.
By taking a ride on the boy's stolen motorcycle, the couple
gets implausibly stranded on a beach, where they engage in
a Blue Lagoon-like sexual awakening.
Composer Stelvio Cipriani provides an upbeat teen romance
score with the participation of harmonica soloist Franco De
Gemini.
The CD contains the original LP program of the soundtrack
that was released only in Japan by Cinedisc, plus our edition
also contains twelve new cuts to round out the package.
Fans of Cipriani's work may be interested to find an infectious
motive that previously headlined the music of Concorde Affaire'79.
After an intense search for the original masters tapes, which
have been irretrievably lost, we resorted to the only possible
source preserved in the world:
the back-up tapes owned by Maestro Stelvio Cipriani.
Carefully restored and mastered by Claudio Fuiano, this release
is presented in full stereo, with the anomaly of an small
digital disturbance in the tracks 10 and 21 (the same disturbances
that were also in the Japanese vinyl, so we deduce that is
a failure recording itself). |