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- Artist: Ennio Morricone
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- Release Date: October 18, 2005
- Type: Compilation (best of), Soundtrack
- Genre: Soundtrack
Review
This two-disc anthology assembled by Mike Patton is, after the spaghetti Western soundtracks and themes, essential Morricone. Never has his music from the strange films he scored in the 1960s and '70s been showcased in such an original and powerful way. Patton has looked closely into the experimental nature of the maestro and found plenty here to offer as well as to crow about. Many of the scores he chose from would be known only to cineastes of minor and obscure Italian films. Yet, Patton understood that Morricone loved his own process and treated crime and exploitation flicks like L'Anticristo and Forza G with the same delightful sense of adventure that he approached The Godfather and The Mission with. Here, all manner of strangeness is on offer: from psychedelic guitars and tripped-out wordless vocals to sitars, layers and layers of percussion, acid-drenched strings, an Echoplexed celeste, toy pianos, psychotic operatic voices in chorus, and more. And this is no novelty compilation. It is sequenced with taste and depth. Most of the music here was conducted by the great Bruno Nicolai, and thematically moves from dark to ecstatic to just plain weird in a seamless fashion. In presenting Crime and Dissonance in this manner, Patton has given listeners a much wider view of Morricone not only as a composer, but as a sonic experimentalist. This is one of those must-haves for just about everybody interested in music just off the beaten path enough to conjure strange dreams and perhaps even nightmares. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna/Giorno di Notte | Ennio Morricone | (4:43) | |
| Veruschka (Poesia di una Donna)/Astratto 3 | Ennio Morricone | (1:48) | |
| L' Uccello con le Piume di Cristallo/Veruschka (Poesia di una Donna) | Ennio Morricone | (5:00) | |
| Metti una Sera a Cena/Ric Happening | Ennio Morricone | (3:23) | |
| L' Istruttoria E' Chiusa: Dimentichi/Memento | Ennio Morricone | (2:38) | |
| Cuore di Mamma/Recreazione Divertita | Ennio Morricone | (2:59) | |
| L' Assoluto Naturale/Studio de Colore | Ennio Morricone | (1:13) | |
| Forza G/Forza G (Quella Donna) | Ennio Morricone | (2:32) | |
| Il Gatto a Nove Code/Placcaggio | Ennio Morricone | (2:33) | |
| Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura/Seguita | (3:15) | ||
| Barbablu'/Postludio Alla Terza Moglie | Ennio Morricone | (2:43) | |
| L' Uccello con le Piume di Cristallo/L'Uccello con le Piume di ... | Ennio Morricone | (1:25) | |
| L' Anticristo/Il Buio | Ennio Morricone, |
(4:00) | |
| La Moglie Piu' Bella/Rapimento in Campo Aperto | Ennio Morricone | (1:24) | |
| Veruschka (Poesia di una Donna)/Le Fotografie | Ennio Morricone | (1:01) | |
| Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna/Spiriti | Ennio Morricone | (2:12) | |
| Cuore di Mamma/Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri | Ennio Morricone | (3:06) | |
| Il Serpente/Astrazione con Ritmo | Ennio Morricone | (4:19) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete/Trafelato | Ennio Morricone | (2:30) | |
| Un Bellissimo Novembre/Sensi | Ennio Morricone | (2:45) | |
| Gli Intoccabili/Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) | Ennio Morricone | (1:39) | |
| Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna/Fondate Paure | Ennio Morricone | (2:45) | |
| L 'Attentato/L'Attentato [Alternate Version 1] | Ennio Morricone | (2:38) | |
| La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie/Fueria d'Oppio | Ennio Morricone | (5:54) | |
| Il Gatto a Nove Code/1970 | Ennio Morricone | (8:39) | |
| Il Serpente/Esplicitamente Sospeso | Ennio Morricone | (4:42) | |
| Sesso in Confessionale/Sequenza 10 | Ennio Morricone | (2:51) | |
| Giornata Nera Per l'Ariete/Paura e Aggressione [Short Version] | Ennio Morricone | (1:54) | |
| Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura/Folle Folle | (3:42) | ||
| Un Uomo da Rispettare/Un Uomo da Rispettare (Titoli) | Ennio Morricone | (11:39) |
