CD REVIEW - Lo Voglio Morto + News from Costa Communications
Lo Voglio Morto
Music by Nico Fidenco
GDM 4101
26 Tracks 59:34 mins
The second new Nico Fidenco western score released in the Hillside Series also dates from 1968 and again stars Craig Hill.
Another generous CD presentation gathers together tracks previously released on the original album, including three in mono, and previously unreleased selections, all in pretty good sound, age considering. It is very much a one-themed score, with the majority of tracks presenting variations on the excllent main theme. There are just a few suspenseful, tension-filled offerings, mostly late on.
The theme is first heard in the opening "Clayton Ballade," where solo recorder starts it off, to be joined by choir, all in rather mournful style. It then develops into a galloping trumpet-lead affair. A flamenco guitar version is next up in "Clayton Guitar," and then two vocal versions by Lida Lu follow, the first in English, the second in Italian, both with whistled intro and exit, presumably by Alessandron Alessandroni, whose I Cantori Moderni feature throughout the score, as does harmonica player par excellence Franco De Gemini, whose haunting solo starts off the next selection, a galloping variation, appropriately entitled "Galoppata Tragica." "Pastorale" presents a version with female choir and guitar.
Thereafter, as previously noted, it's basically a collection of variations on these initial approaches, though there is a hinky-tonk piano version in "Funny Saloon." Two bonus tracks close the album, which appear to be the songs without vocals.
As with yesterday's featured release, the disc is again accompanied by an eight-page booklet, featuring colour stills from the film, plus original poster artwork. Order your copy from www.hillsidecd.co.uk
From Costa Communications
MILAN ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS YOU "SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD"
DVD TO BE RELEASED ON APRIL 24, 2007
An intimate portrait about the lead singer of Dead Can Dance featuring masterful performances and interviews by Brendan Perry, Russell Crowe, Michael Mann, Hans Zimmer and more.
Over a career that spans almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of the world's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists. The documentary film SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD is due out on DVD via Milan Entertainment on April 24 and will have its North American Premiere at this year's Seattle International Film Festival.
SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD, directed and produced by Clive Collier, illustrates the essence of Lisa's music, her singing as strong spiritual expression, and her connection with nature. The documentary film talks about the different components of Lisa's career: her beginnings with the formation of the Dead Can Dance group with Brendan Perry in the 80's, her film and solo careers, the reformation of Dead Can Dance for a world tour in 2005, and aspects of her family life which support and influence her work.
Lisa's career is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the world's most extraordinary bands whose boast is that they never fit into any neatly manufactured genre or lazy pigeonhole. With Lisa's otherworldly voice counterpoised by Brendan's mellifluous tones, from the outset they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani.
Throughout the DVD's 90 minute running time SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD follows the much sought-after composer of soundtracks to point out that, in many ways, working in films has been a logical progression. Much of the work of Dead Can Dance had a cinematic quality that led to the group's music being used in the cult movie "Baraka," TV commercials and even a car chase scene in "Miami Vice." Among the films she has scored or contributed to are "The Insider" and "Ali" for which she received Golden Globe nominations and "Gladiator," for which she received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
With unique access to a reclusive artist, SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD contains music performances, photographs and behind-the-scenes footage never seen or heard before. Brendan Perry, Patrick Cassidy, Russell Crowe and many more colleagues, friends and family offer valuable insights throughout the film.
Lo Voglio Morto
Music by Nico Fidenco
GDM 4101
26 Tracks 59:34 mins
The second new Nico Fidenco western score released in the Hillside Series also dates from 1968 and again stars Craig Hill.
Another generous CD presentation gathers together tracks previously released on the original album, including three in mono, and previously unreleased selections, all in pretty good sound, age considering. It is very much a one-themed score, with the majority of tracks presenting variations on the excllent main theme. There are just a few suspenseful, tension-filled offerings, mostly late on.
The theme is first heard in the opening "Clayton Ballade," where solo recorder starts it off, to be joined by choir, all in rather mournful style. It then develops into a galloping trumpet-lead affair. A flamenco guitar version is next up in "Clayton Guitar," and then two vocal versions by Lida Lu follow, the first in English, the second in Italian, both with whistled intro and exit, presumably by Alessandron Alessandroni, whose I Cantori Moderni feature throughout the score, as does harmonica player par excellence Franco De Gemini, whose haunting solo starts off the next selection, a galloping variation, appropriately entitled "Galoppata Tragica." "Pastorale" presents a version with female choir and guitar.
Thereafter, as previously noted, it's basically a collection of variations on these initial approaches, though there is a hinky-tonk piano version in "Funny Saloon." Two bonus tracks close the album, which appear to be the songs without vocals.
As with yesterday's featured release, the disc is again accompanied by an eight-page booklet, featuring colour stills from the film, plus original poster artwork. Order your copy from www.hillsidecd.co.uk
From Costa Communications
MILAN ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS YOU "SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD"
DVD TO BE RELEASED ON APRIL 24, 2007
An intimate portrait about the lead singer of Dead Can Dance featuring masterful performances and interviews by Brendan Perry, Russell Crowe, Michael Mann, Hans Zimmer and more.
Over a career that spans almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of the world's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists. The documentary film SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD is due out on DVD via Milan Entertainment on April 24 and will have its North American Premiere at this year's Seattle International Film Festival.
SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD, directed and produced by Clive Collier, illustrates the essence of Lisa's music, her singing as strong spiritual expression, and her connection with nature. The documentary film talks about the different components of Lisa's career: her beginnings with the formation of the Dead Can Dance group with Brendan Perry in the 80's, her film and solo careers, the reformation of Dead Can Dance for a world tour in 2005, and aspects of her family life which support and influence her work.
Lisa's career is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the world's most extraordinary bands whose boast is that they never fit into any neatly manufactured genre or lazy pigeonhole. With Lisa's otherworldly voice counterpoised by Brendan's mellifluous tones, from the outset they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani.
Throughout the DVD's 90 minute running time SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD follows the much sought-after composer of soundtracks to point out that, in many ways, working in films has been a logical progression. Much of the work of Dead Can Dance had a cinematic quality that led to the group's music being used in the cult movie "Baraka," TV commercials and even a car chase scene in "Miami Vice." Among the films she has scored or contributed to are "The Insider" and "Ali" for which she received Golden Globe nominations and "Gladiator," for which she received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
With unique access to a reclusive artist, SANCTUARY: LISA GERRARD contains music performances, photographs and behind-the-scenes footage never seen or heard before. Brendan Perry, Patrick Cassidy, Russell Crowe and many more colleagues, friends and family offer valuable insights throughout the film.
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