{"id":4408,"date":"2012-03-10T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2012-03-10T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T17:48:31","slug":"cd-tre-nel-mille-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"CD: Tre nel mille (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label: Cometa (Italy)\/ Released: June 2, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 18 tracks \/ (45:24)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 4-page colour booklet with liner notes (in Italian) \/ Limited to 500 copies.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Ennio Morricone<\/p>\n

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Although the CD\u2019s liner notes are in Italian, it seems Tre nel mille<\/strong> was a comedic mini-series done for Italian TV in 1971, and Cometa\u2019s release replicates the contents of their original LP (previously released in 1978 as a limited 1000-copy run), and adds 5 bonus tracks of alternate cues for this unusually quiet score by Ennio Morricone, written during his busy period when he was annually scoring westerns, gialli, and dramas.<\/p>\n

For mille<\/strong>, his approach was to build the score around a gentle, strangely semi-tragic theme that\u2019s the polar opposite from the experimental chaos of his giallo scores (Black Belly of the Tarantula<\/strong>), although there are some similarities to his soft, extended instrumental cues for westerns, and his tender, intimate music for the period drama ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore<\/a> <\/strong>\/ Addio, fratello crudele<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Morricone uses a small orchestra, and for the main theme \u201cBallata trovatorica,\u201d he cycles through streams of intersecting notes while a solo acoustic guitarist plays a slow, introspective phrase. \u201cLa vallata di Firenze,\u201d in turn, is an eerie variation, with low strings meandering through unsettling swathes of whole notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cElegia con interruzione\u201d is a peculiar blend of bassoon, recorder, plaintive female voices, and whole-note chants by a male chorus paired with recorder during the cue\u2019s propulsive midsection. It\u2019s intriguing for the way Morricone switches to different orchestral and choral colorations, using the male voices as woodwinds, and female voices as strings, and interrupting long sections of tranquility with percussion taps, and solo, steady bassoon tones.<\/p>\n

\u201cLe voci dal liuto\u201d is also fascinating for blurred vocal and instrumental sounds, over which an acoustic guitar plays a short intro statement. The cue\u2019s midsection is comprised of solo woodwinds that are extremely expressive, evoking loneliness & uneasiness, and the cue offers no satisfying tonal resolution (although there is an attempt at melody between a guitar and strings in \u201cLa voce del liuto,\u201d and the use of whimsical mandolin in \u201cLa grande zampogna\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cVoci\u201d however is indicative of the score\u2019s design in which Morricone seems to have instructed the musicians to play their parts in a drift, free from a locked tempo, and as expressive as the natural sounds one would hear in a windswept desert. The echoing guitar is recorded from a distance, the woodwinds are piercing, and the voices tease the listener from afar. In \u201cMaiali ed altri animali,\u201d the vocal performances aren\u2019t weird, guttural or violent, but they do mimic animal sounds, such as bullfrog groans, donkey and horse whinnies, and bird chirps.<\/p>\n

A number the tracks seem to have been edited from shorter cues, but the album is well-sequenced, even with the bonus cues at the end. Cometa\u2019s crisp, stereo CD is limited to 500 copies, which is a shame since this is a notable work of quiet experimentalism, and deserves to sit alongside Morricone\u2019s classical works (which are equally powerful). The cover art replicates the striking art direction that graced the original LP.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2010 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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