Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered edition of the iconic and long out-of-print score by Berto Pisano for the action-adventure film KILL! (1971). The film was written and directed by novelist Romain Gary (who only directed two films), and starred Stephen Boyd, Jean Seberg, James Mason, Curt Jungens and Aldo Sambrell.
KILL! was a chaotic mess, with actors who didn’t know what they were doing and a far-fetched plot about Interpol investigating the freelance murders of drug and porn dealers in Pakistan. Over time, however, the film has become a funny and entertaining subgenre pulp cartoon.
The score by Berto Pisano (co-composed by the unknown Jacques Chaumont, who, according to several sources, can be a pseudonym for Pisano himself) deserves special mention. One of Pisano’s great skills was his ability to combine Italian musical tradition with new sounds emerging at the time. In KILL! the composer provides a cocktail of exotic sounds, exciting action passages and sophisticated erotic motifs. The title song is performed by the Queen of Soul, Doris Troy, and the love theme features the whisperings of Jean Seberg and the chorus of Alessandroni.
KILL! was originally released on LP in Italy by General Music (whose original cover art we have retained for this Quartet CD) and in Japan by Seven Seas. Later, the CD was issued three times in Japan by three different labels, but all of them have been out of print for years. This is the first European release of the score on CD. It has been remastered and restored by Chris Malone from the original stereo master tapes, and the booklet includes liner notes by Miguel Angel Ordonez. Limited 350 copies.
長年廃盤になっていたベルト・ピサーノ作曲による1971年のアクション・アドベンチャー映画『殺し』がリマスターで再発売！
トラックリストこの映画は、小説家ロマン・ゲイリー（監督は2作のみ）が脚本と監督を手がけ、スティーヴン・ボイド、ジーン・セバーグ、ジェームズ・メイソン、カート・ユンゲンス、アルド・サンブレルらが出演。
『殺し』は、パキスタンで麻薬やポルノの売人をフリーで殺害する事件をインターポールが捜査するという奇想天外なプロットで、何をやっているのかわからない俳優たちが登場し、混沌としていた。しかし時が経つにつれ、この映画は滑稽で面白いパルプ漫画の亜流となった。
ベルト・ピサーノによるスコア（無名のジャック・ショーモンとの共同作曲で、いくつかの資料によれば、彼はピサーノ自身のペンネームである可能性もある）は特筆に値する。ピサーノの優れた才能のひとつは、イタリア音楽の伝統と当時生まれた新しいサウンドを融合させる能力だった。『殺し』で作曲家は、エキゾチックなサウンド、エキサイティングなアクション、洗練されたエロティックなモチーフのカクテルを提供している。タイトル曲はソウルの女王ドリス・トロイが歌い、愛のテーマではジーン・セバーグのささやきとアレッサンドローニのコーラスがフィーチャーされています。
『殺し』はもともとイタリアでジェネラル・ミュージックからLPでリリースされ（このカルテットCDのためにオリジナル・ジャケット・アートを残した）、日本ではセブンシーズからリリースされた。その後、日本では3つのレーベルから3度CDが発売されたが、いずれも廃盤となって久しい。このCDは、ヨーロッパ初CD化である。オリジナルのステレオ・マスターテープからクリス・マローンがリマスタリングと修復を施し、ブックレットにはミゲル・アンヘル・オルドニェスによるライナーノーツが掲載。
限定350枚。
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents a remastered edition of the iconic and long out-of-print score by Berto Pisano for the action-adventure film KILL! (1971). The film was written and directed by novelist Romain Gary (who only directed two films), and starred Stephen Boyd, Jean Seberg, James Mason, Curt Jungens and Aldo Sambrell.
KILL! was a chaotic mess, with actors who didn’t know what they were doing and a far-fetched plot about Interpol investigating the freelance murders of drug and porn dealers in Pakistan. Over time, however, the film has become a funny and entertaining subgenre pulp cartoon.
The score by Berto Pisano (co-composed by the unknown Jacques Chaumont, who, according to several sources, can be a pseudonym for Pisano himself) deserves special mention. One of Pisano’s great skills was his ability to combine Italian musical tradition with new sounds emerging at the time. In KILL! the composer provides a cocktail of exotic sounds, exciting action passages and sophisticated erotic motifs. The title song is performed by the Queen of Soul, Doris Troy, and the love theme features the whisperings of Jean Seberg and the chorus of Alessandroni.
KILL! was originally released on LP in Italy by General Music (whose original cover art we have retained for this Quartet CD) and in Japan by Seven Seas. Later, the CD was issued three times in Japan by three different labels, but all of them have been out of print for years. This is the first European release of the score on CD. It has been remastered and restored by Chris Malone from the original stereo master tapes, and the booklet includes liner notes by Miguel Angel Ordonez.
Limited 350 copies.
Kill Them All! (Main Titles) 3:00
Nella Moschea 2:14
Hiasmina 2:20
Allucinazioni 3:25
Inchiesta 1:44
Khanpur 2:20
Kill Them All! (Alternate) 4:26
To Jean (Vocal: Edda Dell’Orso) 3:12
Senza Tregua 3:20
Il Deserto 2:10
Hiasmina (Voice: Jean Seberg) 2:18
Souk Tawil 2:49
Inchiesta (Alternate) 3:49
Kill Them All! (Vocal: Doris Troy) 3:17