MACCHIE SOLARI

Film italien de 1975.

"Chilling giallo soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone -- music that features some very spooky vocal touches from I Cantori Moderni and Edda Dell'Orso! The starting theme is quite sweet, but the soundtrack quickly moves into starker, darker numbers that stand with some of Morricone's best horror work of the 70s -- music that's very artfully prepared, at a level that's much higher than the image on the screen, and which is key to setting its tension. There's no too-easy musical moments here -- and also less of the too-tense or atonal orchestrations that Morricone might use. And instead, the darkness comes almost from an inversion of the usual sweetness -- electric harpsichord played hard and heavy, or Edda Dell'Orso wheezing raspily instead of crooning dreamily!" (www.dustygroove.com)