{"id":7292,"date":"2013-12-03T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:45:19","slug":"cd-snack-bar-budapest-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"CD: Snack Bar Budapest (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Label: Polydor\/ Released: 1988<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 15 tracks \/ (32:37)<\/p>\n

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Composer: Zucchero<\/p>\n

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Italian music star Zucchero only composed one original score, and it\u2019s perhaps surprising that his lone contribution to film music was for a Tinto Brass film, and yet within the score\u2019s\u00a0 32 mins. of lean material lies a memorable work that\u2019s as strangely haunting as Brass\u2019 black comedy-drama \/ tragedy.<\/p>\n

Snack Bar Budapest<\/strong> is a hybrid that shouldn\u2019t work \u2013 a classic Warner Bros. gangster film + Blade Runner<\/strong> riff + Tinto Brass fetish film \u2013 and yet the music seems to draw from each of these genres to smoothen out any creases (or cracks) in Brass\u2019 fairly tight screenplay.<\/p>\n

The 15 tracks offer a balance of instrumental and vocal cues, and certainly in the opening track (\u201cDune Mosse\u201d) Zucchero seems to evoke a little of Vangelis\u2019 Blade Runner<\/strong>, sticking to the slow-burning tones which gave the classic sci-fi film its noir-blues feel while still evoking Jan Hammer\u2019s own synthetic sounds which made Miami Vice <\/strong>an international hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cGianni\u2019s Theme\u201d is more witty (and cheeky), whereas the remaining instrumental score cuts are less than a minute, functioning as short bridge material and strategic musical stabs between dialogue and erotic exchanges.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething\u2019s Strong\u201d first appears as bass-heavy vocal version with growling female voice and raw electric guitar for a blowjob scene (it\u2019s an erotic film, after all); and later in a more scaled down version with bass, drum sequencer, and electric guitar that\u2019s reminiscent of Eric Serra\u2019s La femme Nikita<\/strong> (1990). Zucchero croons the second song, \u201cSei Di Mattino,\u201d a wistful ballad with sparse instrumentations in the vocal and instrumental versions, and electric guitar leading the melody in the latter. The theme also reappears in the tragic \u201cOne Dream\u201d which trails off very quickly.<\/p>\n

Zucchero\u2019s \u00a0ability to orchestrate diverse variations is pretty minimal in Budapest<\/strong>, which perhaps explains the lengthy pauses and literal reiterations within the album\u2019s longest cut \u2013 the opening instrumental \u201cDune Mosse\u201d. David Sancious is credited as arranger \/ performer \/ producer \/ and additional music, which more than infers Zucchero as composer of the main themes, and the heavy dramatic chores handled by Sancious to ensure everything in Brass\u2019 film fit snugly.<\/p>\n

Although short \u2013 the album (jacketed with a picture of the composer, director, and star Giancarlo Giannini) is also augmented by \u201cMy Baby Just Cares for Me\u201d performed by Nina Simone \u2013 Budapest<\/strong> is a welcome surprise, supporting Brass\u2019 odd genre hybrid, transcending the director\u2019s fetishistic adorations, and the music aging rather well in spite of its synth-pop underpinnings.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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

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