Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a remastered reissue?for the first time in full stereo?of the 1966 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the thriller movie SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI, a successful Italian production directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni and Gian Maria Volonte. The film is about a dangerous fugitive who meets a nightclub singer with whom he falls in love. They both get caught up in a spiral of increasingly reckless jewelry store robberies, leading to a tragic end when the police finally catch them.
Although Morricone was not the most prolific composer in the poliziesco genre?that role was more actively filled by Stelvio Cipriani and Franco Micalizzi?he did influence its early stylistic development by consolidating the use of music as an active narrative element: syncopated rhythms, marked bass lines, urban percussion, dissonant sounds to heighten tension, paranoia and urban chaos, or a fusion of jazz, funk and experimental music, are some of the resources that composers associated with the new genre would later use extensively. All these elements form the core of the score of SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI, which is narratively structured around its two protagonists. Morricone also provides the beautiful song "Una stanza vuota," performed by Lisa Gastoni, that also serves as the film's love theme.
The album was released in a short promotional run by RCA in Italy in 1966 and reissued on LP in the 1980s by the Intermezzo label, both in monaural sound. In the 1990s, the same program appeared for the first time on CD?paired with the score of CITTA' VIOLENTA, also by RCA and in mono. In 2012, an expanded edition, featuring virtually the entire score, was released on CD by GDM, in hybrid sound with some tracks in stereo and others in mono.
This new edition, supervised by Claudio Fuiano and restored and mastered by Chris Malone, includes the same program in full stereo. The booklet includes an essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez that discusses both film and score. Limited edition: 500 units
1966年の傑作スリラー映画『目をさまして殺せ』のエンニオ・モリコーネによるカルト的なスコアを、初めて完全ステレオ音源でリマスター再発売！
トラックリストカルロ・リッツァーニ監督、ロベルト・ホフマン、リサ・ガストーニ、ジャン・マリア・ヴォロンテ主演のイタリア製作ヒット作です。本作は危険な逃亡者がナイトクラブ歌手と出会い恋に落ちる物語。二人は次第に無謀さを増す宝石店強盗の渦に巻き込まれ、ついに警察に捕まった末に悲劇的な結末を迎える。
モリコーネはポリーツィエスコ（イタリア警察映画）ジャンルにおいて最も多作な作曲家ではなかった（その役割はステヴィオ・チプリアーニやフランコ・ミカリッツィがより積極的に担った）が、音楽を能動的な物語要素として確立することで、このジャンルの初期の様式的発展に影響を与えた。具体的には： シンコペーションのリズム、強調されたベースライン、都会的なパーカッション、緊張感を高める不協和音、パラノイアや都市の混沌を表現する音、あるいはジャズ、ファンク、実験音楽の融合??これらは新ジャンルに関わる作曲家たちが後に多用する手法の一部となった。これらの要素は全て『目をさまして殺せ』のスコアの中核を成し、物語は二人の主人公を中心に構築されている。モリコーネはまた、リサ・ガストーニが歌う美しい楽曲「Una stanza vuota」を提供し、これは映画の愛のテーマとしても機能している。
このアルバムは1966年にRCAよりイタリアで短期間のプロモ盤としてリリースされ、1980年代にはINTERMEZZOレーベルよりLPで再発された。いずれもモノラル音源である。1990年代には、同じプログラムが初めてCD化され??同じくRCAよりモノラルでリリースされた『狼の挽歌』のスコアとカップリングされた。2012年、GDMよりほぼ全曲収録の拡張版がCDでリリースされた。ハイブリッド仕様で、一部トラックはステレオ、他はモノラルとなっている。
本新作はクラウディオ・フアイアーノ監修、クリス・マローンによる修復・マスタリングを施し、同プログラムを完全ステレオで収録。ブックレットにはミゲル・アンヘル・オルドニェスによる映画とスコア両方を論じたエッセイを掲載。
500枚限定盤。
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a remastered reissue?for the first time in full stereo?of the 1966 classic, propulsive and exciting Ennio Morricone cult score for the thriller movie SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI, a successful Italian production directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni and Gian Maria Volonte. The film is about a dangerous fugitive who meets a nightclub singer with whom he falls in love. They both get caught up in a spiral of increasingly reckless jewelry store robberies, leading to a tragic end when the police finally catch them.
Although Morricone was not the most prolific composer in the poliziesco genre?that role was more actively filled by Stelvio Cipriani and Franco Micalizzi?he did influence its early stylistic development by consolidating the use of music as an active narrative element: syncopated rhythms, marked bass lines, urban percussion, dissonant sounds to heighten tension, paranoia and urban chaos, or a fusion of jazz, funk and experimental music, are some of the resources that composers associated with the new genre would later use extensively. All these elements form the core of the score of SVEGLIATI E UCCIDI, which is narratively structured around its two protagonists. Morricone also provides the beautiful song "Una stanza vuota," performed by Lisa Gastoni, that also serves as the film's love theme.
The album was released in a short promotional run by RCA in Italy in 1966 and reissued on LP in the 1980s by the Intermezzo label, both in monaural sound. In the 1990s, the same program appeared for the first time on CD?paired with the score of CITTA' VIOLENTA, also by RCA and in mono. In 2012, an expanded edition, featuring virtually the entire score, was released on CD by GDM, in hybrid sound with some tracks in stereo and others in mono.
This new edition, supervised by Claudio Fuiano and restored and mastered by Chris Malone, includes the same program in full stereo. The booklet includes an essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez that discusses both film and score.
Limited edition: 500 units
Total Disc Time: 48:37