The original album
01. Small Town Pleasures
02. She'll Never Come Back
03. My Son's Friend Is A Champion Pisser
04. Summer and Winter
05. San Diego, Yellow Cab
06. Happiness Is Having Two Killer Whales As Friends
07. Too Risky a Day for Regatta
08. Sorry, I Have To Go
09. Scotch For Two
10. The Killer Whales' Games
11. The Capture of the Giant Octopus
12. Two Old Kids
13. Tentacles
Previously unreleased original film score tracks
14. My Son's Friend Is A Champion Pisser (versione 2)
15. Tentacles (versione 2)
16. San Diego, Yellow Cab (versione 2)
17. My Son's Friend Is A Champion Pisser (versione 3)
18. Too Risky a Day for Regatta (versione 2)
19. Tentacles (versione 3)
Previously unreleased demo versions
20. Sails
21. Sails (versione 2) |
After the Bermudas OST trilogy Digitmovies
continues to explore the beauty and the dangers of the sea
with this complete and full stereo CD release of the OST by
Stelvio Cipriani for the movie Tentacoli directed and produced
in 1977 by Ovidio G. Assonitis and starring the Hollywood
celebrities Shelley Winters, John Huston, Henry Fonda as well
as Bo Hopkins, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo, Enzo Bottesini,
Franco Diogene, Wolfango Soldati, Sherry Buchanan, Claude
Akins, Alan Boyd, Marco Fiorini, Helena Mäkelä.
A giant octopus spreads terror over Solana Beach, California.
When some bathers have been killed, the scientist oceanographer
Willy Gleason together with his friend Mark tries to kill
the monster, but only at the end with the help of two killer
whales the octopus will finally be killed.
Prolific Stelvio Cipriani has composed and conducted the
background music where a cheerful orchestral theme with pop
flavour, written for the boys having fun at the sea, is introduced
in Tr. 1 (reprised in Tr. 3).
Attractive atmospheres evoke the wonderful sea dimension (Tr.
2, Tr. 4, Tr. 6, Tr. 8, Tr. 10, Tr. 13) and there is also
dramatic and rhythmic music for the final scene of the movie
(Tr. 7) which the author has often used with different instrumentation
in some of his famous OSTs for police movies.
For this our CD we could use the first generation stereo master
tapes of the original recording session which gave us the
chance to discover - besides the 38 minutes assembled for
the album in those days - about 16 minutes of unreleased material
with alternate takes of the album versions.
Also thanks to our Cinevox Record friends we could include
two really very rare tracks:
The demos (more than seven minutes) realized by M° Cipriani
when in the early stages the music publisher had to be Bixio
C.e.m.s.a. but then for various reasons the matter was carried
forward by C.A.M.:
A suspenseful rhythmic theme with attractive electronic effects
(Tr. 20) and the alternate version (Tr. 21) with a definite
police movie flavour as only Stelvio Cipriani is able to do. |
