Digitmovies newly explores the hot territories of the Italian
Western by issuing for the first time on CD the OST by Carlo
Savina from the movies I Senza Dio and ...E Intorno A Lui
Fu Morte.
I Senza Dio was directed in 1972 by Roberto Bianchi Montero
and starred Antonio Sabàto, Erika Blanc, Chris Avram,
Beny Deus, José Jaspe, Enzo La Torre, Franco Marletta,
Alessandro Perrella, Paul Stevens, Pilar Velazquez.
An outlaw called El Santo (Sabàto) and a bounty hunter
named Minnesota (Avram) are on the trail of the Mexican bandit
Corbancho (Jaspe), who together with his gang is roaming the
El Paso area and who has already robbed 400,000 dollars from
the Tucson bank.
The bounty hunters pursuit their reward while El Santo is
thirsty of revenge.
...E Intorno A Lui Fu Morte was directed in 1968 by León
Klimovsky and starred William Bogart, Juan Fairen, Pilar Cansino,
Fabrizio Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Luis De Tejada, Miguel Del
Castillo, Jaime De Pedro, Fabrizio, Eduardo Fajardo, Alberto
Gadea, Fernando S. Polack, Wayde Preston, Agnès Spaak.
Martin Rojas' home is destroyed while he and his neighbors,
poor peasants, are forced to flee to Mexico after having killed
a rancher and some of his men who were responsible.
Rojas forms a band of bandits which raids the border, attempting
to gain back some of what they have lost.
When Rojas' wife dies in childbirth while the Sheriff's men
corner him, he surrenders, overcome with grief.
The Sheriff adopts the boy.
Ten years later, Rojas escapes from prison to see his son.
An old partner of him is searching for a fortune of gold which
Rojas had hidden so that the troubles for Rojas aren't
yet over.
For this CD we have used the mono master tapes of the original
session of I Senza Dio for the whole OST recording.
Carlo Savina has employed an orchestra with brass, woodwinds,
percussions, electric guitars, bass, keyboards, harp and vibraphone
excluding the strings.
This OST features a catchy and recurrent rhythmic main theme,
epic and adventurous, which gets introduced in Titoli di testa
(Tr. 1) and is reprised in Tr. 6, Tr. 8, Tr. 10, Tr. 14, Tr.
15,Tr. 17, alternated with mysterious, almost psychedelic
passages (Tr. 3, Tr. 5,Tr. 16), country music (Tr. 7) and
saloon music (Tr. 12).
Our CD is enriched with the surviving mono elements from ...E
Intorno A Lui Fu Morte, properly restored and remastered in
digital.
For this OST Savina has writen another particularly catchy
motif with an epic flavour for trumpet, bass guitar,organ
and strings( Tr. 18 and then reprised in the second part of
Tr. 22).
For the dramatic side of the plot Savina has utilized a symphonic
orchestra and choir which play sometimes tragic and sacred
music in Tr. 19 and in Tr. 22, sometimes dramatic and epic
music (Tr. 21), alternated with a lively Mexican Mariachi,
a piece for trumpet where the bass guitar beat rhythm conveys
a certain modern flavour typical of the dance floor tunes
of that era in which the movie was made (Tr. 20).
Another proper rescue and preservation which pays tribute
to the Italian Western genre and the music art of the great
Carlo Savina, a composer whose discography is recently growing
in numbers thanks to discoveries and re-discoveries of his
rich filmography. |