Eat It

Digitmovies presents on CD the complete OST in full stereo by Ennio Morricone for the movie "Eat It" (aka "Mangiala") directed in 1968 by Francesco Casaretti and starring Paolo Villaggio,Frank Wolff, Giampiero Albertini, Silvia Dionisio, Monica Herfert, Rossella Bergamonti, Massimo Zaccariello,Giancarlo Badessi,Ezio Marano,Alicia Brandet, Antonietta Fiorito, Bruno Cattaneo, Orso Maria Guerrini. An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! Our CD is possible thanks to the help of the friends at C.A.M. in whose archives the stereo master tapes of the original sessions conducted by Bruno Nicolai gave us the chance to discover very interesting material. For the grotesque plot Ennio Morricone has written a music score based on a romantic and classical-style bossa theme for strings and rhythm group (very similar to the theme he had created for "Escalation"), with the addition of a lullaby performed by an electronic keyboard, which is introduced in "Titoli" (Tr.1) and reprised with variations in Tr.2, Tr.3 ,Tr.7, Tr.11,Tr.13,Tr.14,Tr.18,Tr.20. Morricone has written refined lounge music which reflects the sounds of those days in Tr.4,Tr.15,Tr.17, an Afro-Beat shake (Tr.6), a dance floor music based on the Dies Irae (Tr.12), another stunning experimental shake (Tr.20) (issued in mono on the rare original 45 rpm single), a tango (Tr.5) , suspended and mysterious music in a kind of science-fiction style (Tr.8,Tr.9,Tr.10,Tr.16) perfectly suited to describe the bizarre side of the plot. Another proper rescue and preservation of the Italian Silver Age and of the music by the mythical Ennio Morricone.