Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the dynamic, classic score by Ennio Morricone for the 1970 Charles Bronson action vehicle CITTA' VIOLENTA (aka VIOLENT CITY), directed by Sergio Sollima and co-starring Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland. The film is about a hit man who, after being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, sets out to take revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.
Ennio Morricone's score is nervous, insistent, sometimes ironic. Far from using music as a simple environmental resource, the music constructs a sonic architecture that is closely aligned with the subjectivity of the protagonist, adopting his point of view, transforming the perception of the environment into an auditory texture. Thus, the music does not merely follow his emotional arc but amplifies it as a resource for introspection and narrative complexity. The result is a musical device that revolves around three structural cores: the city as a violent labyrinth, the killer's split consciousness, and love as a betrayed promise.
The soundtrack album was released in both Italy and Japan in 1970 with different cover art. The same program was first reissued on CD in Japan in the early nineties. An expanded edition of the score was issued by GDM in 2006, later reissued with two additional bonus tracks in 2012 by the Intermezzo label. This is a reissue of that program produced by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, remastered by Chris Malone. The booklet includes an essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez, discussing the film and score. Limited edition: 500 units
1970年公開のチャールズ・ブロンソン主演アクション映画『狼の挽歌』のエンニオ・モリコーネによるダイナミックなクラシック・スコアを完全改訂・リマスター版としてリリース！
トラックリスト監督はセルジオ・ソッリマ、共演はテリー・サバラスとジル・アイアランド。本作は、愛人に裏切られ殺害未遂から辛うじて逃れた殺し屋が、その女と彼女を唆したマフィアのボスへの復讐に赴く物語である。
エンニオ・モリコーネの音楽は神経質で執拗、時に皮肉を帯びている。単なる環境音として音楽を用いるどころか、主人公の主観性に密接に連動した音響的構造を構築し、彼の視点を取り込み、環境の知覚を聴覚的テクスチャーへと変容させる。こうして音楽は彼の感情の軌跡を追うだけでなく、内省と物語の複雑性を増幅させる資源として機能する。その結果、三つの構造的核??暴力の迷宮としての都市、殺し屋の分裂した意識、裏切られた約束としての愛??を中心に展開する音楽的装置が生まれた。
サウンドトラック・アルバムは1970年にイタリアと日本で異なるジャケットデザインで発売された。同じプログラムは1990年代初頭に日本で初めてCD化され再発売された。2006年にGDMより拡張版スコアが発売され、その後2012年にIntermezzoレーベルよりボーナストラック2曲を追加した再発盤がリリースされた。本盤はクラウディオ・フアイアーノとダニエル・ウィンクラーがプロデュース、クリス・マローンがリマスターを手掛けた同プログラムの再発盤である。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を論じたエッセイを収録。
500枚限定盤。
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the dynamic, classic score by Ennio Morricone for the 1970 Charles Bronson action vehicle CITTA' VIOLENTA (aka VIOLENT CITY), directed by Sergio Sollima and co-starring Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland. The film is about a hit man who, after being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, sets out to take revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.
Ennio Morricone's score is nervous, insistent, sometimes ironic. Far from using music as a simple environmental resource, the music constructs a sonic architecture that is closely aligned with the subjectivity of the protagonist, adopting his point of view, transforming the perception of the environment into an auditory texture. Thus, the music does not merely follow his emotional arc but amplifies it as a resource for introspection and narrative complexity. The result is a musical device that revolves around three structural cores: the city as a violent labyrinth, the killer's split consciousness, and love as a betrayed promise.
The soundtrack album was released in both Italy and Japan in 1970 with different cover art. The same program was first reissued on CD in Japan in the early nineties. An expanded edition of the score was issued by GDM in 2006, later reissued with two additional bonus tracks in 2012 by the Intermezzo label. This is a reissue of that program produced by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, remastered by Chris Malone. The booklet includes an essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez, discussing the film and score.
Limited edition: 500 units
Total Disc Time: 60:35