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Available on July 2
Label number: GDM CD Club 7086
22 Tracks
54' 45"
Stereo/Mono

What we have so far:
15 Tracks
36' 18"
12 Tracks in mono.
3 Tracks in stereo.

Wonderful opening titles.....can't wait for the new CD !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4CmDN4oV_M

Louis.

Title: AD OGNI COSTO
Label: GDM CD Club
Code: 7086
Format: CD - 8 pages booklet
Tracks 12-22 previously unreleased

Track List :
01. Punto e basta -titoli di testa 2:56
02. Vai via malinconia 1:30
03. Ad ogni costo 2:43
04. Vai via malinconia (#2) 1:37
05. In chiesa 2:27
06. Dirgli solo no 2:12
07. Tudo e nada 2:43
08. Voce 2:30
09. Ai, Morena 2:22
10. Samba do desprezo 1:59
11. Eu fiz mal em dizer 2:03
12. Samba bamba (versione coro) 3:20
13. Ai, Morena (#2) 2:05
14. Punto e basta (#2) 2:56
15. Dirgli solo no (#2) 2:32
16. Samba bamba (vers. strum. con tromba) 3:20
17. Ad ogni costo (#2) 1:59
18. Vai via malinconia (#3) 1:41
19. Ai, Morena (#3) 3:22
20. Dirgli solo no (#3) 3:07
21. Tudo e Nada (#2) 2:07
22. Vai via malinconia (#4) 2:29
Total Time 54:45


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Bob,
Thank you for the info !

Louis.

The weird sounding melody instrument featured in the main theme is a Clavioline (an early electronic keyboard).
Morricone must have liked its sound(s) because he used it in quite a few scores, even in westerns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavioline

Morricone also used this instrument in the following scores:

Sai Cosa faceva stalin alle donne
Escercito di cinque uomini
Ruba al prossimo tuo
Forza G
Tre Donne
Two Mules for sister Sara
Giú La Testa
Quando le donne avevano öa coda
Tepepa
etc.

and maybe "Un Genio Due Compari Un Pollo" as well ???
thanks for the info

Must-have score btw, and one of my favorite Morricone main titles.

Maybe...unless that's a real synthesizer like an ARP or Moog.

Anyways, I first thought the funny "pop-pop-pop-pooo" sounds in EAT IT (1968) was a clavioline too, but I'm
pretty sure now that those sounds come from the Thomas 900 electronic theater organ.

You're a clavioline/synthesizer/organ-fan, aren't you Micke?
"I'm pretty sure now that those sounds come from the Thomas 900 electronic theater organ."

Ah... the Thomas 900 Electronic Theater Organ that was credited in the opening titles of FACCIA A FACCIA (1967).
: the ORGAN was credited, not the person actually PLAYING the thing: Bruno Nicolai. (opening credits – 2:15)
Bruno did get a credit for conducting the orchestra. (opening credits – 2:10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Xjrdkb6G0

About the two "Vai via malinconia" songs (tracks 18 and 22) on the new AD OGNI COSTO CD:
It would have been nice if GDM had revealed the identity of the singer(s).
Track 18: voice sounds like melancholy Astrud Gilberto ("The Girl from Ipanema").
I did a google on her, but couldn't find a "Vai via malinconia" connection.
Track 22, same song, different arrangement, also different singer?
The "Vai via malinconia" vocal credited in the film's opening titles (sung by Maysa Matarazzo) is NOT found on this CD!

'Vai via malinconia' sung by Maysa Matarazzo "on GTA Records".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4CmDN4oV_M – Opening Credits – 1:24
Released on 45rpm Single: GTA Records PON NP 40061 – Italy – 1967
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTA_Records
Play this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwa2NXXIw68
http://www.chimai.com/mod_comment/dsp_d ... &list_id=1

Feedback appreciated!
Bob

Yes, I'm very into musical instruments, not just electronic ones.

Btw, the Thomas organ is also credited on the LP sleeve of METTI UNA SERA A CENA; *special effects: organo Thomas*
It's interesting to note that Morricone and Nicolai preferred to use this organ over the more popular Hammond tone-wheel
organ.

Here's an excerpt from a letter I received from Morricone many years ago (via Peter Boom, the vocalist): '
" I almost never used the Hammond organ, which was overused in the 60's and the 70's and its sound very compressed. I used a lot the Thomas organ for important occasions because of its special sounds (Indagine di un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto) and also as church organ (or armonium). But often, for its religious expressivity, I demand the "real" organ, the one of the church in the Forum studio. Next I used a lot the synthesizer instead of the classic church organ."

The church organ he's referring to is the 3-manual Vincenzo Mascioni organ (15.000 pipes!) situated in the church
beside the Forum studios. This organ was also used by some of the other Italian film composers such as Bruno Nicolai, Goblin and Marcello Giombini.

Very interesting, Micke!

"Thomas organ credited on the LP sleeve of METTI UNA SERA A CENA"
I compared the 2 organ tracks (tracks 3 and 4) on METTI (1968) with the title track of FACCIA (1967).
To my ears the METTI organ seems smaller than the FACCIA.
I guess that's because both scores differ significantly, one is intimate the other epic (?).
So Morricone also used the Thomas for INDAGINE (1969) ?
Micke, is Bruno Nicolai also credited on the LP sleeve of METTI ?

"The church beside the Forum studios"
This is the info I have on Ortophonic Studio/Forum Studio/Forum Music Village:
ORTOPHONIC STUDIO - Recording studio founded (1969) in the basement of a church at Piazza Euclide 34 in Rome. Owned by the four composers Armando Trovajoli [1917-], Piero Piccioni [1921-2004], Luis Bacalov [1933-], Ennio Morricone [1928-] and also Enrico De Melis, who was the first manager of the studio.
FORUM STUDIO - In 1979, the Ortophonic was sold to Emma (and Franco) Patrignani.
FORUM MUSIC VILLAGE – Since 1997 General Manager: Marco Patrignani (son of Franco and Emma Patrignani).
Now: 3 recording studios, 2 pre-production suites.
(Patrick Ehresmann Interview, MSV 96/97:61-65)
"Some choral parts in the LP have been recorded in the giant church of S. Euclide, and the reverb heard in these tracks is absolutely natural. This was possible because the Ortophonic recording studio in Rome is located under the church, so we could even use the wonderful pipe organ, a 1947-built Mascioni."
http://www.italianprog.com/a_paesedeibalocchi.htm

I've never actually been there, but according to the info the Ortophonic was located in the basement UNDER the church. Am I to understand that due to the expansions (only one studio at first, 3+2 at present), part of the studios are now located BESIDE the church?