I senza Dio / ...E intorno a lui fu morte

Digitmovies newly explores the hot territories of the Italian Western by issuing for the first time on CD the OST by Carlo Savina from the movies “ I senza dio” and “…E intorno a lui fu morte". “I senza dio” (aka “Thunder over El Paso”) was directed in 1972 by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starred Antonio Sabàto, Erika Blanc, Chris Avram, Beny Deus, José Jaspe, Enzo La Torre, Franco Marletta, Alessandro Perrella, Paul Stevens, Pilar Velazquez. An outlaw called El Santo (Sabàto) and a bounty hunter named Minnesota (Avram) are on the trail of the Mexican bandit Corbancho (Jaspe), who together with his gang is roaming the El Paso area and who has already robbed 400,000 dollars from the Tucson bank. The bounty hunters pursuit their reward while El Santo is thirsty of revenge. “…E intorno a lui fu morte” (aka ”Death knows no time” – “Pagó cara su muerte”) was directed in 1968 by León Klimovsky and starred William Bogart, Juan Fairen, Pilar Cansino, Fabrizio Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Luis De Tejada, Miguel Del Castillo, Jaime De Pedro, Fabrizio, Eduardo Fajardo, Alberto Gadea, Fernando S. Polack, Wayde Preston, Agnès Spaak. Martin Rojas' home is destroyed while he and his neighbors, poor peasants, are forced to flee to Mexico after having killed a rancher and some of his men who were responsible. Rojas forms a band of bandits which raids the border, attempting to gain back some of what they have lost. When Rojas' wife dies in childbirth while the Sheriff's men corner him, he surrenders, overcome with grief. The Sheriff adopts the boy. Ten years later, Rojas escapes from prison to see his son. An old partner of him is searching for a fortune of gold which Rojas had hidden so that the troubles for Rojas aren’t yet over. For this CD we have used the mono master tapes of the original session of “I senza dio” for the whole OST recording. Carlo Savina has employed an orchestra with brass, woodwinds, percussions ,electric guitars, bass, keyboards, harp and vibraphone excluding the strings. This OST features a catchy and recurrent rhythmic main theme, epic and adventurous, which gets introduced in Titoli di testa (Tr.1) and is reprised in Tr.6, Tr.8, Tr.10, Tr.14, Tr.15,Tr.17, alternated with mysterious, almost psychedelic passages (Tr.3, Tr.5,Tr.16), country music (Tr.7) and saloon music (Tr.12). Our CD is enriched with the surviving mono elements (about 12:21) from “…E intorno a lui fu morte”, properly restored and remastered in digital. For this OST Savina has writen another particularly catchy motif with an epic flavour for trumpet, bass guitar,organ and strings( Tr.18 and then reprised in the second part of Tr.22). For the dramatic side of the plot Savina has utilized a symphonic orchestra and choir which play sometimes tragic and sacred music in Tr.19 and in Tr.22, sometimes dramatic and epic music (Tr.21), alternated with a lively Mexican Mariachi, a piece for trumpet where the bass guitar beat rhythm conveys a certain modern flavour typical of the dance floor tunes of that era in which the movie was made (Tr.20). Another proper rescue and preservation which pays tribute to the Italian Western genre and the music art of the great Carlo Savina, a composer whose discography is recently growing in numbers thanks to discoveries and re-discoveries of his rich filmography.