| Digitmovies releases on CD for the first
time complete and in full stereo the OSTs from two Italian
police movies of the 70s:
The music by Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera from the movie Roma L'Altra
Faccia Della Violenza directed in 1977 by Franco Martinelli
(one of the pseudonyms of Marino Girolami) and starring Anthony
Steffen, Marcel Bozzuffi, Stefano Patrizi, Roberta Paladini,
Ennio Girolami, Jean Favre, Franco Citti, Valerio Merola.
The father and brother of an 18 year old girl who had been
killed during a robbery agree to cooperate with the police
themselves.
There follows music by Giampaolo Chiti and Sergio Montori
from La Banda Vallanzasca directed in 1978 by Mario Bianchi
and starring Enzo Pulcrano, Stefania D'Amario, Antonella Dogan,
Gianni Diana, Franco Garofalo, Franco Marino, Liliana Chiari
Enrico Mixed.
Escaped from the penitentiary of Regina Coeli, a robber is
hired by a mysterious gang that turns him, to his own regret,
into a public enemy.
After having kidnapped the daughter of an oilman, he runs
away with her, but the organization kills both of them.
For this CD, Digitmovies with the great help of our friends
at Cinevox, had access to the stereo master tapes of the sessions
of both the original OSTs.
For Roma L'Altra Faccia Della Violenza, the prolific trio
Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera has created an explosive sound of the
Funky genre so fashionable in those years with a range of
themes for breathtaking chase scenes introduced in Titoli
(Tr. 1) and reprised in Tr. 3 in Tr. 19, alternated with other
suspenseful, mysterious and pensive ones (Tr. 10, Tr. 17)
and with a romantic and a little bit nostalgic love theme
(Tr. 2, Tr, 4, Tr. 6, Tr. 9, Tr. 12, Tr. 14, Tr. 18).
At that time no record was issued even if tracks 18 and 19
(as indicated in the boxes of the master tapes) were prepared
for a 45 rpm single, but then never released.
Only recently a suite has appeared on a Cinevox compilation
CD dedicated to the police movie genre.
Gianpaolo Chiti and Sergio Montori have written a great Funky
tune for scenes of daring car chases called Desperation And
Money (Tr. 20) which together with the folk-flavoured motif
Gunvalzer (Tr. 21) appeared on a Cinevox 45 rpm single.
Here we add new material:
a piece in experimental vein for violin and electric guitar
with rather disturbing echoes and reverberations (Tr. 22),
a modern and dance floor theme for the character of Antonella
(Tr. 23), another dance tune in a burlesque style (Tr. 24)
and a rousing reprise of Desperation And Money" (Tr.
25), a version with rhythms only mix.
A cool CD for long-term big fans of an evergreen genre. |
