Yesterday, ahead of the start of the BBC series, The Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, The Telegraph asked their film critics – and then their Twitter followers – to come up with their favourite film soundtracks. It seems over half chose Ennio Morricone’s deathless score for ...
Yesterday, ahead of the start of the BBC series, The Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, The Telegraph asked their film critics – and then their Twitter followers – to come up with their favourite film soundtracks.
It seems over half chose Ennio Morricone’s deathless score for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly; I went for Taxi Driver, The Mission and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, then, on the bus going home, remembered a pile of John Carpenter scores, Popol Vuh’s brilliant work for Werner Herzog, Jonny Greenwood’s contributions to Paul Thomas Anderson’s films and a slew of Tangerine Dream scores. As an afterthought, I wondered whether I could include Broadcast’s spot-on Italian prog pastiche – credited to Hymenoptera – over the credits of Berberian Sound Studio…
And on it goes. I’m sure you’ve got your own favourites. But I think there’s a lot of interesting and largely overlooked work on European film scores – particularly the Italian giallo movies of the 1960s and Seventies. Italian prog group Goblin – who worked a lot with Dario Argento – have enjoyed a minor renaissance lately, and Fabio Frizzi – Lucio Fulci’s composer of choice – is due to make his UK concert debut with a seven piece band at the Union Chapel on (of course) October 31. It was nice to see Boards Of Canada namechecking Frizzi (along with Carpenter, John Harrison and ) in a recent Guardian piece.
You can hear some clips of Frizzi’s best work – progressive, dark, electronic – below, and tickets for the Union Chapel event are available here.
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