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Ennio Morricone - Crime & Dissonance

Crime & Dissonance

by Ennio Morricone

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Released
07/11/2005
Music Genre
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This two-disc anthology assembled by Mike Patton is, after the spaghetti Western soundtracks and themes, essential Morricone. Never has his music from the strange films he scored in the 1960s and '70s been showcased in such an original and powerful way. Patton has looked closely into the experimental nature of the maestro and found plenty here to offer as well as to crow about. Many of the scores he chose from would be known only to cineastes of minor and obscure Italian films. Yet, Patton understood that Morricone loved his own process and treated crime and exploitation flicks like L'Anticristo and Forza G with the same delightful sense of adventure that he approached The Godfather and The Mission with. Here, all manner of strangeness is on offer: from psychedelic guitars and tripped-out wordless vocals to sitars, layers and layers of percussion, acid-drenched strings, an Echoplexed celeste, toy pianos, psychotic operatic voices in chorus, and more. And this is no novelty compilation. It is sequenced with taste and depth. Most of the music here was conducted by the great Bruno Nicolai, and thematically moves from dark to ecstatic to just plain weird in a seamless fashion. In presenting Crime and Dissonance in this manner, Patton has given listeners a much wider view of Morricone not only as a composer, but as a sonic experimentalist. This is one of those must-haves for just about everybody interested in music just off the beaten path enough to conjure strange dreams and perhaps even nightmares.

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Product Details

Artist
Ennio Morricone
Number of Discs
2
Recording Environment
Studio
Label / Studio
IPECAC RECORDS
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
2005
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
2005
Cast & Crew
Ennio Morricone (Music Performer)
Alan Bishop (Com (Producer)
Filippo Salvadori (Producer)

Press Reviews

Musique concrete, cubist jazz, surreal lounge-rock, orgasmic vocals..." - Grade: A Entertainment Weekly (No. 852, p.83)

The aptly titled set is willfully experimental, lurking around the outer edges of the avant-garde....Morricone is proven a master whose genius transcends genres. Magnet (p.99)

Sensitively remastered and boldly presented....Offering some remarkable points of departure and hinting at new areas of experimentation....Just think of it as music to die for. The Wire (p.52)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Una Lucertola Con la Pelle di Donna/Giorno di Notte
  2. Veruschka (Poesia di Una Donna)/Astratto 3
  3. L' Uccello Con le Piume di Cristallo/Veruschka (Poesia di Una Donna)
  4. Stick Around
  5. L' Istruttoria E' Chiusa: Dimentichi/Memento
  6. Cuore di Mamma/Recreazione Divertita
  7. L' Assoluto Naturale/Studio de Colore
  8. Forza G/Forza G (Quella Donna)
  9. Il Gatto a Nove Code/Placcaggio
  10. Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura/Seguita
  11. Barbablu'/Postludio Alla Terza Moglie
  12. L' Uccello Con le Piume di Cristallo/L'Uccello Con le Piume di Cristallo (
  13. L' Anticristo/Il Buio
  14. La Moglie Piu' Bella/Rapimento in Campo Aperto
  15. Veruschka (Poesia di Una Donna)/Le Fotografie
  16. Una Lucertola Con la Pelle di Donna/Spiriti
  17. Cuore di Mamma/Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri
  18. Il Serpente/Astrazione Con Ritmo

Disc 2:

  1. Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete/Trafelato
  2. Un Bellissimo Novembre/Sensi
  3. Gli Intoccabili/Gli Intoccabili (Titoli)
  4. Una Lucertola Con la Pelle di Donna/Fondate Paure
  5. L 'Attentato/L'Attentato [Alternate Version 1][Version]
  6. La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie/Fueria d'Oppio
  7. Il Gatto a Nove Code/1970
  8. Il Serpente/Esplicitamente Sospeso
  9. Sesso in Confessionale/Sequenza 10
  10. Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete/Paura e Aggressione [Short Version][Version]
  11. Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura/Folle Folle
  12. Un Uomo Da Rispettare/Un Uomo Da Rispettare (Titoli)

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