Format Details: Crystal Clear Vinyl
Release Date: 30 July 2021
Label: AMS
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8016158303667
Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack
Description
Dario Argento’s ‘opera prima’ ‘L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo’ was premiered in 1970 and marked a truly original and innovative thriller. The stylistic choices of Argento make a clear step forward from the thrillers of that era and even the soundtrack was something utterly original.
Argento assigned the score to Ennio Morricone, composer of the soundtracks for ‘Comandamenti per un gangster’, ‘C’era una volta il west’, ‘Metti, una sera a cena’ ‘Un esercito di 5 uomini’ and ‘La stagione dei sensi’, which Argento had already written the screenplay. For this movie the maestro adopted a particular style that draws heavily on contemporary music and on the studies of his Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - a vocalisation group.
With ‘L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo’ Morricone develops this approach and defines a 'formula': he alternates traditional songs, built around an easy and immediate melody used as a leitmotiv, with avant-garde and abstract tracks that amplify the state of uneasiness and fear of the viewer's tension and violent sequences. Cinevox released this soundtrack on an LP with 10 tracks in the spring of 1971 when ‘Il gatto a nove code’, another Morricone composition, was already a big hit in the Italian cinemas. The record was originally issued in mono, with different tracks from the Stereo US version. This is the vinyl reissue featuring the original score in Stereo, but in a limited Crystal vinyl.
Tracklisting
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Goblin
Piero Umiliani
La Honda
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Goblin
Goblin
Maxophone
