Senza sapere niente di lei

Digitmovies starts to explore musically the “Giallo territory” of another Maestro of Italian Flm Music. Again thanks to the C.A.M. archives, we proudly release the first volume of our brand new series dedicated to M°Morricone’s scores for Italian Giallo movies. From “Senza sapere niente di lei” – directed in 1969 by Luigi Comencini and starring Philip Leroy and Paola Pitagora – only two tracks were previously issued on compilation albums (LP: Scacchiera musicale, CAM ORL 8405 and CD: Pinocchio e i grandi libri al cinema CAM 493066-2). For a dark story placed in a winter Milano, where a young lawyer (Leroy) meets and falls in love with a strange girl with an unknown past (Pitagora), Ennio Morricone has written a monothematic score based on a waltz-like main theme that is reprised with variations. In the movie, this music background creates the right mood as contrast to the ambiguous atmosphere of the story. The Giallo music is introduced in the theme “Identikit di un delitto” (tr. 3 & tr.9) and in “Ricordo” (tr.12). Ennio Morricone has written a very sensual-mysterious theme called “Frammenti d’estasi” (tr.6). During our compilation of this CD release, for an artistic reason M° Morricone wanted to enclose four rare tracks (tr.4, tr.7, tr.10, tr. 13) he recorded for the never realized movie “Lui per lei” (1970) with the purpose to create a better listening experience breaking the monothematic structure of the “ Senza sapere niente di lei” score. From “Lui per lei” some music was previously available only on very rare C.A.M. Library LPs (CAM CML 021: Psichedelico - Introspettivo - Flashback and CAM CML 010: Magico - Strano - Misterioso – Subacqueo). The music contained here from “Lui per lei” is ALL that was recorded during the 1970 sessions. The score is experimental but also has a subdued Lounge flavour with use of Beat instrumentation like distorted guitars, organ, drums and choir. For this Cd release we used all the material survived on the original recording sessions stereo tapes.