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CDDM 166CD
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Digitmovies presents, on a double-CD set, Giorgio Gaslini's complete original soundtrack, in mono and in full stereo, for the movie Bali (aka "Incontro D'amore - Bali, "Incontro D'amore A Bali"). Directed in 1970 by Ugo Liberatore and starring Umberto Orsini, Laura Antonelli, John Steiner, Petra Pauly, Johannes Schaaf, Ettore Manni, and Ilona Staller. A few years later some scenes were reshot by director Paolo Heusch with the presence of the actress Ilona Staller and re-edited by producer Alfredo Bini so that the movie was re-released in the theaters with the title Incontro D'amore - Bali. The famous jazz musician, pianist, and composer Giorgio Gaslini was signed up to write the score. At that time Cinevox Record issued a 33rpm album which contained ten tracks in mono. Digitmovies have placed the master tapes of the original session with all the music recorded in mono, but there's more: by means of a thorough search in the Cinevox vaults the label have found other master tapes of the OST in very good conditions and even in full stereo. The label first thought that they contained stereo mixes of the same mono versions, but this was not really the case. Giorgio Gaslini had recorded an alternate score by using a symphonic orchestra that reprises the main themes, but with different orchestrations. So, due to the size of the discovered material, Digitmovies have decided to release a double-CD set: On CD 1 (mono) the OST is more jazzy, with a "combo sound", played by a small orchestra, and the 1970 LP album featured selections in beat music style -- apart some intervals of traditional Balinesian music. It's more suitable for an easy listening experience in those days. The "Bali Theme" strongly dominates, a romantic cue with a little epic flavor, which in CD 2 returns in an exciting symphonic beat version for orchestra and the choir of Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. At the end of the second CD, the label have included a suite with the two tracks "Incontro D'amore" and "Smetti Di Piovere" (this last one with the remarkable performance of Edda Dell'Orso) issued in 1975 on the very rare Cinevox 45rpm single. This is the added OST that Gaslini wrote and recorded for the '75 movie re-release and it includes an unreleased passage with dramatic strings for the scene where the protagonist stabs his wife.
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CDDM 154CD
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2010 release. Digitmovies releases for the very first time complete and in full stereo the original soundtrack by Giorgio Gaslini for the movie Il Vero E Il Falso ("The True And The False") directed in 1972 by Eriprando Visconti. In the city of Latina, a young Yugoslavian girl with questionable morals called Norma Zejzler lives and works. She is the mistress of Claudio Santini, who is married to the young teacher Luisa, who in turn well knows about the love relationship of her husband. One day the charred body of a woman is found in Norma's house, possibly it is even Norma herself. Luisa is incriminated (the motive is jealousy) by the district attorney Turrisi as being guilty of the murder. Although some elements have not been cleared up, the woman is sentenced to ten years in prison. Then she leaves the prison three years earlier because of good behavior. She is received by the lawyer Marco Manin who during the past trial was the assistant of the attorney for the defense. After many years lawyer Manin is still puzzled about the final verdict, and between him and the woman a love story begins. Later on, it is discovered that Norma is still alive and is now living together with Claudio. This time Luisa does really kill Norma, and after her arrest lawyer Manin, who now defends Luisa at the trial, discovers that the woman had indeed been only sentenced because of the carelessness of the district attorney Turrisi. The truth comes to light: Claudio Santini together with his mistress had killed and burned another girl who had to pass off herself as Norma. At the end Manin succeeds to incriminate Santini and to clear up the circumstances, but Luisa commits suicide when listening to the verdict. Giorgio Gaslini has written a short, but effective score with mysterious and dramatic overtones. For the character of Luisa and her tormented story Gaslini has written a romantic and sad theme with classical flavor for guitar and orchestra. It gets reprised for solo guitar and can also be heard in the final suite. The macabre side of the story which is all about a murder and the search for the truth is rendered by passages of dissonant music where the "Luisa" theme comes back, by the long and ghostly experimental piece "Evanescenze". Includes four unreleased tracks.
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DOC 131LP
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Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 masterpiece La Notte is an atmospheric and enthralling movie starring the great Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti and is the second entry in his famous "alienation trilogy" the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'Avventura (1960) and ending with L'Eclisse (1962). Antonioni's composer-of-choice for the first and the third movies was Giovanni Fusco, however, since La Notte was shot in Milan, Antonioni's initial idea was to hire a native composer, Giorgio Gaslini considering that there was a big difference between the jazz music that was being produced in the South and in the North of Italy. Gaslini wrote his score while the film was being shot, making a cameo with his own orchestra in the party that serves as a background for the film. According to his recollections this ended up being the most bizarre and exciting experience of his career. The end result is fairly unique as well: a catalog of ambient jazz music that boasts an unprecedented psychological thrust.
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