AMORE TOSSICO (LP+CD red vinyl)

1983’s Amore Tossico is a legendary cult film, a stark and unflinching look at Italy’s “junkie generation”. Directed by Claudio Caligari, he approached the film more like a documentary than a work of fiction, using as his “actors” actual and recovering junkies; Caligari “imagined it more as a straight-up visual ethnography, hyperreal, replete with humor in the most grotesque situations - like life.”
Accompanying Caligari’s stark imagery and story is the soundtrack by Detto Mariano - a prolific composer, arranger, and pianist - who wrote the entirety on his FAIRLIGHT series IIx, a now revered synthesizer that had just been released that year.
The sound is therefore scary and up to date, a true companion to the vivid and rough imagery of the movie. This led the composer to a brand new level of engagement: the machine is the tool, hence the music, quite possibly the Italian answer to the industrial revolution. Coming from an academic background, Detto Mariano knew little of the so-called grey area, but in fact Amore Tossico can easily be associated with the pioneers of the genre, such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. The soundtrack is dark, angular, harsh and - just at times - funky. Surely it can rival the intensity of Carpenter’s The Thing or Throbbing Gristle’s Heathen Heart.
Never before available on any format, Penny Records is honored to present this first time release, mastered from the original tapes, on deluxe 140 gram red vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with bonus CD of the entire album plus a reproduction of the original film poster. --- from the label

Please note for shipping purposes this counts as 5 discs

This item has a planned release date of May 12th.

SIDE A:
01 Amore Tossico_Titoli di Testa 02 Cesare. Enzo. Chopper (e “i du’ ggelati) 03 Michela “compra” da Teresa 04 “…annamose a pija ‘sto grammo pe cazzi nostri” 06 Affannosa ricerca di un limone 08 Michela e la “sola totale” nella toeletta del bar 09 Michela esce di corsa dal bar 11 Cesare cerca di recuperare i soldi di Michela da Teresa 12 Michela e Cesare nella stazione di Ostia Lido 13 Incontro con Massimo davanti al SAT 14 Cesare e Massimo una rapina da ventimila lire 15 Loredana scippa una collana 16 Loredana In strada attesa di Mario lo spacciatore 17 Cesare raggiunge Chopper Enzo e Michela davanti al SAT 18 Massimo va a contrattare con la madre di uno spacciatore 19 Loredana si infila la siringa nel collo 20 Cesare e Michela …dopo l’amplesso…
SIDE B:
21 Cesare, Michela e la Pistola 22 “Oh …a Ce …mo che famo?...” 23 Loredana in strada e “a rota” (in astinenza) 24 “pappone” costringe Loredana a salire in macchina 25 “nun vojo vede li schizzi de sangue su la tappezzeria” 26 “pappone” segue Loredana sull’arenile 27 Lottano: Cesare con “pappone” e Michela con Teresa 28 Tutti a casa di Patrizia 29 “Questo si che e un quadro vero … fatto di sangue…” 30 “e va bbe dai …l’ultima pera…” 33 Cesare vuole morire come Michela 34 Corsa disperata di Cesare finita con un colpo di pistola 35 Amore Tossico Titoli di coda