COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE?
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Rare Morricone, Nicolai among this week's releases from Digitmovies

COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE (aka "What have you done to Solange?"), a persuasive score by Ennio Morricone for Massimo Dallamano's 1972 giallo, continues the series dedicated to the scores by Ennio Morricone for Italian "Giallo" movies with a second volume. The movie is one of the best Italian giallos of the ' 70s, born on the wave of the Dario Argento films. Set in a gloomy London, the movie describes the dramatic and torbid secret lives of the students of a respectable English college with distressing realism. This macabre atmosphere is perfectly underscored by the alarming music by Morricone. At the movie's release, no record was issued until 1986, when RCA releases a 13-track LP. The same material was re-issued by RCA on CD in 1997. Digitmovies release expands the RCA soundtrack with eight unreleased cues found on the original stereo master tapes of the '72 session, included on the CD with Morricone's approval. "The orchestral score is mostly dominated by experimental music given by atonal performances of trumpet and strings strongly in contrast to the sweet theme for piano, female voice and orchestra of the Main Titles (Tr.1), later reprised in a short version (Tr.14) and in the alternate take with a long introduction of flute and orchestra used as End Titles (Tr.21)," notes Digitmovies. The limited edition CD is accompanied by an 8-page full color booklet.

The second release for April is the premiere release of Bruno Nicolai's complete score from the ribald Medieval-ages comedy, QUEL GRAN PEZZO DELLA UBALDA TUTTA NUDA E TUTTA CALDA (aka Ubalda, all naked and warm) directed in 1972 by Mariano Laurenti and starring Edwige Fenech, Karin Schubert and noted comedian Pippo Franco. This movie was one of the smash hits at the box office during the season of "Decamerotico" ("Erotic Decameron") movies where every story plays in the medieval era, populated of beautiful little dressed dames and cuckold knights, according to Digitmovies. "The score by Bruno Nicolai officially sees the light of day on record for the first time, since it has been released neither on 45 rpm nor 33 rpm records," the label explains. "Our CD release was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Edipan Archives where the stereophonic master tapes have been kept until today." As bonus tracks, the CD includes an unused alternate "Finale" in both instrumental and choral versions.

The third and final release for April are a pair of contemporary pop-oriented Italian Western from the mid 1970s, the complete scores to CARAMBOLA (1974) and its sequel, CARAMBOLA, FILOTTO... TUTTI IN BUCA (1975), both directed by Ferdinando Baldi (BLINDMAN) and starring Paul L. Smith and Michael Coby (alias Antonio Cantafora, noted for his role in BARON BLOOD). "These movies represent the comic side of Italian Westerns and were born as clones of the most popular fist-fighting comedies starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill," says Digitmovies. Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera composed CARAMBOLA (previously issued only on a 2-track single by Cinevox in Italy and on Ariola in Germany). The sequel was scored by Bixio and Tempera along with Fabio Frizzi (ZOMBI); Cinevox and Ariola also issued a 2-track single from this score; the complete scores have never been issued until now.

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