Parle Italiano? What can i tell you about Giovanni Fusco? he died on my birthday in 1968, a year before I was born, so I guess maybe that doesn't really make it my birthday yet. He was born in Italy in 1906. thanks wikipedia. Oh yeah, and he did that kickass soundtrack for Hiroshima Mon Amour (which we gotta get up here one of these days).
AND, he composed all the music for my favorite Antonioni films, which are represented on this stately and serene slab, and do sound so very very lovely on this gray autumn day (if also very very elegaic, melancholic, and basically very fucking lonely). And hey, even though it's currently out of stock at Dusty Groove, you folks can find it right here, in the Forest...
dustygroove: Early soundtracks for Michelangelo Antonioni movies -- penned and conducted by Giovanni Fusco, for films that include L'Avventura, L'Eclisse, and Deserto Rosso. The orchestrations are full, but often have a sense of space that really fits the brooding work of the director -- stark and spare at times, with a lone (or lonely) instrument standing out from the rest -- a woodwind instrument here, piano line there, arcing out with a nicely sensitive quality. Titles include "Tensione", "Tema Drammatico", "Eclisse Twist", "Passeggiata", "Nevrosi", "Happy Surf", "Orgia", "Il Surf Della Luna", and "Atmosfera Suspence".
4 comments:
Mmmm, tasty
arlopop
Great stuff - thanks for this and the Lustmord and all the other stuff
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant! never thought...would find this!...gratitudes...:)
p.s. - Thanks will know no bounds if we get to hear the soundtrack of "La Notte" here!....:)
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