After the Easy Tempo compilations it's time for the real Italian
Soundtrack master to show who started it all.
From www.allmusic.com:
Review by Thom Jurek
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.
Artist : Ennio Morricone
Album : More Mondo Morricone revisited
Source : CD
Year : 2003
Genre : Soundtrack
Label : Royal Ear Force
Url : http://www.enniomorricone.com
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