{"id":5128,"date":"2012-06-27T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2012-06-27T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:53:41","slug":"cd-dorian-gray-il-dio-chiamato-dorian-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5128","title":{"rendered":"CD: Dorian Gray \/ Il dio chiamato Dorian (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0DigitMovies (Italy)<\/a> \/ Released: May 15, 2008<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 30 tracks \/ (64:50)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet \/ Limited.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Peppino De Luca<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/p>\n

There are three main elements to Peppino De Luca\u2019s score: a lovely, tragic main theme for the self-obsessed & self-loathing Dorian Gray; a pulsing mysterioso<\/em> with guitar and screeching synth feedback; and a broad selection of source music evoking the indulgent lifestyle of a pretty male model who made a dangerous deal with the Devil to remain young.<\/p>\n

De Luca\u2019s main theme has two ongoing shades: there\u2019s the tenderness and insecurity conveyed via piano and acoustic guitar, and a sense of something corrupt & fetid, via the use of a de-tuned bar piano. It\u2019s an effective, simple trick that captures Dorian\u2019s flawed morality, and it paves the way for more extreme musical contrasts which De Luca does explore later in his score.<\/p>\n

Interspersed with these dramatic cues are myriad source cues that chart Dorian\u2019s journey through hedonism, indulgence, and cruelty. DigiMovies\u2019 CD features several score and source variations which do give the album a sometimes schizophrenic narrative (not to mention an abrupt finale), but that\u2019s more reflective of the extreme moods De Luca had to capture in what was a mixed literary adaptation \/ sexploitation flick set in swinging sixties London.<\/p>\n

The source cues range from lush orchestral to ditsy Bossa Nova (some featuring mixed vocals), a honky-tonk piano, a riff on Max Steiner\u2019s A Summer Place<\/strong> theme in \u201cAmore in Piccadilly (versione 3),\u201d and a trippy rock theme (\u201cRito a Los Angeles\u201d) which, like Stelvio Cipriani\u2019s Bay of Blood<\/a><\/strong> (1971), echoes the guitar and ethereal organ instrumentation of Iron Butterfly\u2019s \u201cIn-a-Gadda-Da-Vida\u201d song, albeit goosed with exotic congas (which Cipriani also incorporated in his Bay<\/strong> score to evoke the sense of an ongoing human hunt).<\/p>\n

The variety of styles, ranging from rock, jazz, and gilded Renaissance, merely reinforce De Luca\u2019s talent, and DigitMovies\u2019 CD offers a rare & complete sampling of the composer\u2019s small body of work before his passing in 1974. De Luca\u2019s other available scores include L\u2019Uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio \/ The Man with Icy Eyes<\/a> <\/strong>[M<\/a>] (1971) and La Ragazza conla pistola <\/strong>\/ The Girl with the Gun <\/strong>(1968).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 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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