Morricone's Danger: Diabolik Soundtrack

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

It's on Amazon to download for $8.99.

One comment so far:

"Back in the 1960s - even today, to some extent - it was not uncommon to buy a film's soundtrack album and hear something that wasn't exactly as it was heard in the movie. Composers scored films, then they recorded listenable albums out of the music written for those films. So, when I say that this very welcome soundtrack album is NOT the work recorded by Ennio Morricone and conducted by Bruno Nicolai for Mario Bava's 1967 cult film, using Alessandro Alessandroni and many other top Italian instrumentalists, but rather a very skillful and loving full stereo re-recording of that music by contemporary musicians and admirers, this is not intended as criticism. It is probably very close indeed to what we might have had, were a proper soundtrack album recorded back in the day.

This score, which most would agree is one of the Maestro's Top Ten most beloved soundtracks, is a marvelous combination of a silken vocal main theme worthy of a Bond film, wall-of-sound pop psychedelia, sitar-driven nirvana music, BATMAN-like car chase cues, and much more. The original Morricone sessions are apparently irretrievably lost, so this album is sure to be cherished by anyone who has ever coveted them. Hearing this download for the first time was an emotional experience for me, a big, sustained smile. I wish I could hug whoever's responsible. "

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

This is probably the closest we'll get to the real thing unless the original tapes are miraculously discovered. I wonder who they got to do the vocals on "Deep Down"? It's possible they used the original Christy vocal (irreplaceable imo), that track was released on a single I believe and preserved. I have it on a Morricone compilation, Canto Morricone Vol. 1 The 60s. I have that bootleg soundtrack too...might get this.