Les cauchemars naissent la nuit - Nightmare come at night

After having widely documented the collaboration between Jess Franco and Bruno Nicolai with a series of Cds dedicated to the OSTs of the Roman composer for the cult-movies of the Spanish director, Digitmovies newly ventures into the wonderful territory between mystery and eroticism of Jess Franco, releasing on CD for the first time the rare complete and stereo OST by Bruno Nicolai from the Franco movie realized in 1970: “Les cauchemars nassent la nuit” (aka “Nightmare come at night”) starring Diana Lorys, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, Colette Giacobine, Soledad Miranda (under the pseudonym of Susan Korda). The movie tells the ambiguous story of two female exotic dancers who embark on an erotic friendship which takes a turn when one of them begins having recurring nightmares of her killing people and where the line between realty and fantasy begins to blur to the most extreme. This OST was never released on record officially, even if some tracks were possibly included on library albums of Edipan. For this CD we have used every note recorded those days: the master tapes kept in the Edipan vaults were rescued in very good conditions and in full stereo. For this movie Bruno Nicolai has written an OST of experimental kind, perfect as background for the protagonist’s recurrent nightmares and. “Tra sogno e vita”, the original main titles (Tr.1), after an intro of ethnic sound effects presents a medley of experimental motifs, developed later in the OST, among them, in a theme for atonal strings reprised in Tr.3,Tr.8,Tr.15,Tr.18. Bruno Nicolai alternates experimental atmospheres with piano and percussions (Tr.4,Tr,6), with suspended motifs for guitar, organ and light percussions (Tr.10, Tr.16) and with a magic love theme (Tr.14). Lounge style music is also enclosed that reflects the trends and the life style of those days with two long tracks, a slow one with sax, organ and rhythmics for the scene of striptease (Tr.9) and a shake dancefloor music that, after a Spanish flavoured guitar introduction, is developed with organ, distorted guitars and drums for the dance scene during a party (Tr.11).