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Jordi Grau's first feature film, shot in
glorious black and white in 1962, this Spanish-Italian coproduction
is in many ways related to Antonioni's La Notte.
Both films speak about the impairing ability to communicate
as well as the desire and impossibility to establish a relationship,
and a party as background scenery.
Where Antonioni's film depicts a luxurious party in
Milan, Grau&'s version portraits the gathering of several
characters with no expectations on the night of the sommer
solistice in Barcelona.
As was the case for Giorgio Gaslini with La Notte, Il Peccato
marks composer Antonio Pérez Olea first film work.
Along the same lines, Pérez Olea was also faced with
the task to write the music while the filming was going on,
trying to accommodate unexpected changes in the script.
The music exudes a visible Barcelona style, combining swing,
bee-bop, jazz, folk and ballroom dancing, but yet again it
isn' simply source music but a score with a strong
and distinctive personality.
After releasing Historia de una chica sola and The Living
Dead at the Manchester Morgue, it is a privilege for Quartet
Records to release once again the original score to one of
Jordi Grau’s film, especially since it's Maestro
Antonio Peréz Olea CD debut.
He was Jordi Grau's composer-of-choice on several films
and so they both established one of the most cosolidated director-composer
relationship in Spain over the 60's and 70's.
Using the original tapes property of CAM in Italy and with
the same content as the original 1962 LP. |
