Double 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing featuring a host of previously unreleased cues uncovered especially for this release. Ennio Morricone has produced masterpiece after masterpiece, but none so creatively unsettling as his score to the 1971 Lucio Fulci giallo a LIZARD IN a WOMAN'S SKIN (aka UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA). Like many of Fulci's movies, LIZARD blurs the line between dreams and reality, with hedonistic nightmares featuring narcotic fueled orgies leading to real murder that may or may not have been committed during one of the dreams. Morricone's music is as unhinged as the film itself, mixing post-sixties funk and jazz with increasingly uncomfortable effects to provide a haunting and biting backdrop for the turn of the century thriller. As always, elements of the maestro's music are beautiful, with ethereal vocals by regular collaborator Edda dell'Orso, and this works even better in stark contrast with the harsher sections, with eerie woodwinds, the requisite whistling, wind instruments that sound like coyote howls, and low rhythmic bass that hits your head and your stomach at a point where you start to wonder if someone else is if the house with you.
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「幻想殺人」の幻想殺人的なジャケット
ルシオ・フルチ監督エンニオ・モリコーネ音楽の「幻想殺人」のサントラＬＰ盤。日本題の如く現実と幻想が錯綜したような、あらためていうまでもないホラー映画音楽の名盤。ＣＤ盤は以前から出ており、最近２枚組の完全盤も出たばかりで、このＬＰも完全盤を踏襲した全２４曲が収録されてます。最近のインディーズ系によるホラー映画のＬＰ化は版権がとれないのか、それともわざととらないのか従来の映画のポスターや映画の内容をカバーにしないで、独自なイメージによるジャケットが多々ありますが、そんな中でも原題の「女の皮を被った蜥蜴」をイメージしたサイケデリックな色彩の蜥蜴の鱗にひっそりと人間の目が覗いているイメージが妖しく禍々しく美しい・・・わざわざＬＰもまたかってよかったと思わせる秀逸なデザインでうれしい。ジャケットのイメージがまだないころから予約してたけどね。
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