On 26 August 1975, Nude per l'assassino (also known as Strip Nude for Your Killer) landed in Italian cinemas. It was the sexiest, sleaziest, and most unhinged giallo film of the decade.
Now, exactly half a century after that explosion of eroticism, blood, and pop delirium, Four Flies Records makes a landmark announcement: the original soundtrack, long thought lost to time, has been found. This marks its first-ever release, presented in a lavish LP edition meticulously remastered from the original 8-track tapes.
The score, composed by Berto Pisano and Elsio Mancuso (the latter credited in the work's registration with Italian PRO SIAE, but unacknowledged in the film's titles), is an intoxicating and lethal brew: jazz-funk grooves, highly charged lounge atmospheres, chilling dodecaphonic suspense, and sweeping orchestral themes featuring strings, flugelhorn, and the incredible trumpet of Oscar Valdambrini. All of it crowned by Edda Dell'Orso's magnetic, otherworldly voice at one of her career's absolute peaks, balancing sensual ecstasy with the breathy whispers you'd imagine in a red-light photonovel.
Believed gone and vanished forever, this soundtrack has obsessed collectors and fans of Italian film scores for decades. And yet, there it was, forgotten in a dusty cellar. It may sound like an urban legend, but it's true.
So, we can finally listen to a proper, stand-alone, official edition of one of the most beautiful soundtracks from the ‘70s, a true manifesto of the Italian erotic sound, but also a testament to to the skill with which Italians could lift American funk and imbue it with a unique, visionary spin that was entirely their own.
Nude per l'assassino is a cornerstone of Italian genre cinema: lurid, brazen, and utterly iconic, with a sexy-panther Edwige Fenech sporting a haircut that could scar your adolescence, and and the unforgettable image of a killer in full-face helmet and motorcycle suit.
This soundtrack is the very soul of that film, hidden for far too long, now gloriously brought into the light. A forbidden dream made real.
トラックリスト
1. Nude Per L'Assassino 02:36 2. Fotomodelle 02:21 3. L'Atelier Dei Misteri 02:14 4. Follia Omicida 01:35 5. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte 03:31 6. Occhi Senza Sguardo 02:39 7. Occhi Senza Sguardo (Voce e Organo) 01:20 8. Scivolando Nel Buio 01:28 9. Strip Nude For Your Killer 02:54 10. Fotomodelle (Studio Fotografico) 02:47 11. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte #2 02:22 12. Scivolando Nel Buio #2 01:25 13. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte #3 01:46 14. Fotomodelle (Lounge) 02:19 15. Occhi Senza Sguardo #2 03:10
1975年8月26日、『Nude per l'assassino』がイタリアの映画館に上陸した。それはこの10年で最も官能的で、最も卑猥で、最も狂気じみたジャッロ映画であった。
トラックリストそして今、あの官能と血とポップな狂気の爆発からちょうど半世紀を経て、Four Flies Recordsが画期的な発表を行う。長年失われたと思われていたオリジナル・サウンドトラックが発見された。これは史上初のリリースとなり、オリジナルの8トラックテープから丹念にリマスターされた。
ベルト・ピサーノとエルシオ・マンキューゾ（後者はイタリア著作権協会PRO SIAEへの登録ではクレジットされているが、映画のタイトルでは未記載）が作曲したこのスコアは、陶酔的で致命的な調合だ：ジャズ・ファンクのグルーヴ、高揚感あふれるラウンジ・ムード、身も凍る十二音技法のサスペンス、そして弦楽器、フリューゲルホルン、オスカー・ヴァルダンブリニの驚異的なトランペットをフィーチャーした壮大なオーケストラ主題が織りなす。これら全てを冠するのは、エッダ・デル・オルソの磁石のように引きつけ、この世のものとは思えぬ歌声だ。彼女のキャリアの絶頂期の一つと言えるこの歌声は、官能的な恍惚感と、赤灯街のフォトノベルで想像されるような息を呑むささやきを絶妙に調和させている。
On 26 August 1975, Nude per l'assassino (also known as Strip Nude for Your Killer) landed in Italian cinemas. It was the sexiest, sleaziest, and most unhinged giallo film of the decade.
Now, exactly half a century after that explosion of eroticism, blood, and pop delirium, Four Flies Records makes a landmark announcement: the original soundtrack, long thought lost to time, has been found. This marks its first-ever release, presented in a lavish LP edition meticulously remastered from the original 8-track tapes.
The score, composed by Berto Pisano and Elsio Mancuso (the latter credited in the work's registration with Italian PRO SIAE, but unacknowledged in the film's titles), is an intoxicating and lethal brew: jazz-funk grooves, highly charged lounge atmospheres, chilling dodecaphonic suspense, and sweeping orchestral themes featuring strings, flugelhorn, and the incredible trumpet of Oscar Valdambrini. All of it crowned by Edda Dell'Orso's magnetic, otherworldly voice at one of her career's absolute peaks, balancing sensual ecstasy with the breathy whispers you'd imagine in a red-light photonovel.
Believed gone and vanished forever, this soundtrack has obsessed collectors and fans of Italian film scores for decades. And yet, there it was, forgotten in a dusty cellar. It may sound like an urban legend, but it's true.
So, we can finally listen to a proper, stand-alone, official edition of one of the most beautiful soundtracks from the ‘70s, a true manifesto of the Italian erotic sound, but also a testament to to the skill with which Italians could lift American funk and imbue it with a unique, visionary spin that was entirely their own.
Nude per l'assassino is a cornerstone of Italian genre cinema: lurid, brazen, and utterly iconic, with a sexy-panther Edwige Fenech sporting a haircut that could scar your adolescence, and and the unforgettable image of a killer in full-face helmet and motorcycle suit.
This soundtrack is the very soul of that film, hidden for far too long, now gloriously brought into the light. A forbidden dream made real.
1. Nude Per L'Assassino 02:36
2. Fotomodelle 02:21
3. L'Atelier Dei Misteri 02:14
4. Follia Omicida 01:35
5. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte 03:31
6. Occhi Senza Sguardo 02:39
7. Occhi Senza Sguardo (Voce e Organo) 01:20
8. Scivolando Nel Buio 01:28
9. Strip Nude For Your Killer 02:54
10. Fotomodelle (Studio Fotografico) 02:47
11. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte #2 02:22
12. Scivolando Nel Buio #2 01:25
13. Le Tenere Braccia della Morte #3 01:46
14. Fotomodelle (Lounge) 02:19
15. Occhi Senza Sguardo #2 03:10