FELLINI SATYRICON (180gr Transparent red vinyl Vinyl, LP+CD)

The soundtrack of Fellini Satyricon, composed by Nino Rota, is a musical journey that accompanies and amplifies the disorienting, dreamlike, and fragmented experience of the eponymous film by Federico Fellini (1969), loosely inspired by the unfinished novel by Petronius Arbiter.

Fellini Satyricon is not a linear narrative, but a series of visions that flow like a hallucinatory dream set in ancient Rome. There is no historical or documentary intent: Fellini stages a sensual, decadent, symbolic world, populated by deformed creatures, pagan rituals, and unrestrained desires. The story, which revolves around Encolpius, Giton, and Ascyltus, is deliberately broken, incomplete, and suspended?just like the text it draws from. The film challenges the viewer, disorients them, and drags them into an archaic time that resembles the unconscious more than the historical past.

In this context, Nino Rota's music does not serve as a mere commentary, but becomes an integral part of the visual narrative. Rota abandons classical melody and constructs an archaic and abstract soundscape, made up of atonal instruments, tribal percussion, dissonant choirs, and unclassifiable sounds.

Rather than directly quoting music from ancient Rome (for which no reliable sonic sources exist), Rota imagines an ancient, primitive, mysterious sound. The result is something profoundly original: a ritualistic hybrid between fantastical ethnomusicology and the theatre of the absurd. The music thus becomes an alien voice, embodying the other, the ancient, the uncanny.

Rota alternates unsettling moments with hypnotic and solemn passages. The music oscillates between the sacred and the profane, the playful and the terrifying?just like the film. The use of silence and natural sounds (breathing, chanting, rustling) heightens the sense of suspension. There are no easily memorable themes: the soundtrack lives more in its sonic matter than in melody.

Fellini Satyricon is a work that rejects every narrative and aesthetic convention, and Nino Rota’s music is its perfect reflection: experimental, disturbing, evocative, and uncompromising. It is one of the composer’s boldest works, far removed from the lightness that often characterizes his more famous scores (such as those for La Dolce Vita or Amarcord).

In summary, the soundtrack of Fellini Satyricon is an avant-garde masterpiece, capable of evoking a world that never existed, but that?thanks to Fellini and Rota?continues to live in the cinematic imagination as an ancient dreamlike vision.
Now available on transparent red vinyl / 180 grams + CD, limited numbered edition of 500 copies. Includes an insert with liner notes by Massimo Privitera of colonnesonore.net.
Please note for shipping purposes this counts as 7 discs

Side A
A01 - TEATRINO DI VERNACCHIO (Vernacchio's Small Theater)
A02 - IL GIARDINO DELLE DELIZIE (Garden of Delights)
A03 - NOTTURNI NELLA SUBURRA (Nocturnes in the "Suburra")
A04 - LA SCHIAVETTA INNAMORATA (The Little Slave Girl in Love)
A05 - LA CENA DA TRIMALCIONE (Trimalcione's Dinner Pt. 1)
A06 - MADEJA-PERIMADEJA
A07 - MIO AMATO GITONE (My Beloved Giton)
A08 - LA CENA DA TRIMALCIONE (Trimalcione's Dinner Pt. 2)
A09 - TEMA DI GITONE (Giton's Theme)
A10 - IL TRIONFO DEL NUOVO CESARE (New Caesar's Triumph)


Side B
B01 - ENCOLPIO E ASCILTO PRIGIONIERI (Encolpio and Ascilto, Prisoners)
B02 - SULLA NAVE DI LICA (On Lica's Boat)
B03 - LE NOZZE SUL MARE (Wedding At Sea)
B04 - IL FUOCO DELLE VESTALI (Vestal's Fre)
B05 - L'ORACOLO SALMODIANTE (The Psalmodist Oracle)
B06 - MI ASCOLTI GITONE? (Do You Listen to Me Giton?)
B07 - STORIA DELLA MATRONA DI EFESO (Story of Ephesus Matron)
B08 - ENCOLPIO HA PERDUTO LA SUA SPADA (Encolpio Lost Is Sword)
B09 - IL MINOTAURO (The Minotaur)
B10 - LA NUOVA ISOLA (The New Island)