Mondo Morricone: The Trilogy

構成数 : 3枚
合計収録時間 : 03:21:06
Composer: Ennio Morricone. Personnel: Edda Dell'Orso (vocals); Alessandro Alessandroni (guitar); Oscar Valdambrini (flugelhorn); Arnaldo Graziosi, Bruno Nicolai (piano, harpsichord, organ); Roberto Gatto (drums, percussion); I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni (background vocals). Liner Note Authors: Claudio Fuiano; Sandro Zanichelli; John Bender. Editor: Stefan Rambow. Arranger: Ennio Morricone. There are box sets, and there are box sets. Mondo Morricone: The Trilogy wasn't originally intended as one, but it hardly matters. What it accomplishes is to collect all three of the Mondo Morricone volumes -- Mondo Morricone Revisited, More Mondo Morricone Revisited, Molto Mondo Morricone -- in one handy place for repeated ecstatic listening experiences. As its title suggests, the music here is not from the great spaghetti westerns, with their razor-wire electric guitars that ring out themes of doom and wasted salvation in the wilderness. Rather, the music compiled on these three volumes comes from Italian horror films; jet-set, swinging Italian dramas; crime dramas; and romances. Hence, none of the major themes are here; and yes, that is a good thing. This is hip, lounge-lizard Morricone music that will have the listener's toe tapping, finger popping, and, in the right mood, swooning with pleasure (hopefully with a like-minded loved one). Disc one is a revelation, disc two is a treasure trove, and disc three is the icing on the cake. The entirety of the output on these discs is primarily from 1969-1979, but on volume one, there is "La Donna Gattina," form 1966's British film How I Learned to Love Women, and 1968's "Belinda May," from L'Alibi. Volume three also boasts an unreleased cut from the film Weak Spot. The film was issued in 1975, but this track, "Ipocrisa," wasn't issued until 2000. All of it, however, is prime Morricone as you've never really heard him before. Themes are wonderfully "song"-oriented, particularly on the last volume, with not only the vocal tracks like "Ma Non Troppo Erotico" and "Rodeo" from Marco Vicario's wonderful 1971 picture The Burglars, which starred Dyan Cannon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Omar Sharif! Musically these scores excellent, not just because of their velvety lounge-lizard textures and lush arrangements, silky vocals, and discophonic big beats (in places), but because these bands were conducted either by Bruno Nicolai or Nicola Samale, and featured no less than Alessandro Allessandroni on guitars, drummer Roberto Gatto, and pianists Arnaldo Graziosi, Enrico Pieranunzi, and Nicolai himself. What's here is nothing short of heavenly. If one combines this with a collection such as Rhino's excellent two-disc Morricone anthology (and the entire soundtracks from Once Upon a Time in the West and The Mission), then one has everything one needs for a very responsible and fulfilling Morricone shelf. Highly recommended. ~ Thom Jurek
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)