Digitmovies is proud to release on CD the
complete OST in full stereo by Franco Micalizzi from the film
Stridulum directed in 1979 by Giulio Paradisi and starring
Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston, Franco Nero, Shelley
Winters, Sam Peckinpah, Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Paige
Conner, Ja Townsend, Jack Dorsey, Hsio Ho Chao.
Jersey (Huston) arrives on the earth from outer space with
the mission of defending an evil syndicate under the guide
of doctor Walker (Ferrer) which is based in the city of Los
Angeles.
By manipualting Barbara Collins (Nail), the evil doctor Walker
generated a little girl with paranormal powers named Katy
(Conner) and he wants to use her for the triumph of evil.
But as a male child is also needed, Raymond (Henriksen) is
assigned to persuade Barbara to make her pregnant again.
The woman, unaware of all this, is still worried about the
strange behaviour of her daughter and she is not inclined
to accept Raymond's attentions.
Franco Micalizzi has written one of the most beautiful scores
of his entire career (and one of the favourites of the composer
himself), where a main theme quoting Also Sprach Zarathustra
in the introduction then develops into a powerful and driving
funky music piece that recalls so many famous police movie
themes of this author (Tr. 1, 3, 8, 13, 15, 18, 20) alternated
with a romantic love theme (Tr. 2, Tr. 4, Tr. 7, Tr. 9, Tr.
17) action music (Tr. 6, Tr. 11) and dissonant symphonic-electronic
atmospheres (Tr. 5, Tr. 10, Tr. 14, Tr. 16, Tr. 19).
For our CD (supervised by M° Micalizzi) we were able
to use the stereo master tape assembled for the original 33
rpm album and those stereo master tapes of the original New
York session which gave us the chance to add about twenty
minutes of unreleased music.
A proper rescue and preservation of the Italian Silver Age
and of the music art of Franco Micalizzi. |
