GDM Music releases on CD the OST composed
by Piero Piccioni for the Western movie Minnesota Clay directed
by Sergio Corbucci and starring Cameron Mitchell, Antonio
Casas, Alberto Cevenini, Diana Martin, Julio Peña,
Nando Poggi, Georges Rivière, Ethel Rojo, Fernando
Sancho, Madeleine Dehek.
Sentenced to twenty years of penal servitude for a crime
he did not commit, Minnesota Clay (Mitchell) escapes from
the prison, motivated not only by the instinct of freedom,
but buy the wish to come back to Mesa Encantada, in New Mexico,
where the witness reticent of Clay' innocence lives.
He finds the city disputed between two gangs:
one is front by fierce Ortiz, a Mexican general deserter,
the other front by the clever Fox, the man who had not told
the truth at the trial.
The two chiefs would like to have the collaboration of Clay
who has the fame of expert gunman; but he, disgusted by the
proposals, refuses, winning the enmity of both.
Pursued, he succeeds fortunately to save himself together
with the found again daughter Nancy and Jonathan.
Having later eliminated Ortiz, Fox would like the same with
Minnesota Clay.
He ramshackle and almost blind, duels with Fox using his hearing:
he strikes the adversary and he forces him to confess publically
the truth.
Piero Piccioni has written a memorable symphonic score much
more influenced from Hollywood (orchestrations of the veteran
Ralph Ferraro) than the just rising sound of the Italian Western.
The main theme is a motif where the strings play an epic passage
that is often reprised in the score, alternated to motifs
to horse rides, ambushes and all the narrative elements of
the genre.
At that time a 33 rpm was issued with 17 tracks with a length
of only 34:04.
To realize this special edition CD the original session mono
master tapes have been used, also including two rare stereo
mixes, that gave the chance to release the complete version
of a much requested score, digitally restored and remastered. |
