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Digitmovies continues the musical voyage of exploring the original soundtracks written for movies starring the mythical Bud Spencer and Terrence l[
Hill publishing

first CD re-issue
this time a special edition

was produced in Germany

CD of E,nnio Morricone's

in 1990 (Alhambra
soundtrack"Occhio

A8916)
by a Canadian
bur the sound
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quality
1981 (directed
Bud Spencer), A funny fact in the movie there's a scene featuring a group of happy little children in a wagon. If you take care on watching the little
photo below in this page, tile second child from the left is reatly a ten years old Luca Oi Silverio, the producer of this CD!!That time Cinevox Record
released a long play album (MDF 33.145) <::ontainin9 15 selections, followed LP fe-issue in the same year {Modulation
was rather mediocre
by Michele

because
Lupo and starring

the album
MN-3300S).The
master had
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deteriorated over those few years. Searching for the original 1981 session mastertapes c::onsidered to be lost for 20 years has been long until a very
recent discovery; the original stereo session mastertapes were located in a very good condition. Certainly the biggest problem was that the album Buddy Goes West, Je M'Appelle Malabar, Eine Faust Geht Nach Westen
mastertape was completely unusable for this re~release. We were afraid that the tracks used for the original album would be missing from the session
tapes, like it happened with many original soundtrack session tapes where the album tracks were simply cut and removed for the use for international Aranyeso Yuccaban, EIamigo de Trinity vuelve al oeste, Skumma polare
discographic releases. Luckily the album tracks have also been conserved on the session tapes and tlie sound quality is simply fabulous. After the
original album sequence we induded alternate versions of the main themes: variations of the cheerful main theme (Tr.16, Tr.27), variations of the
grotesque theme considered as a parody of "Addio a Cheyenne" from "Cera una volta il West" (Tr.18, Tr.25), Hanky Tonky saloon music (Tr.19,
Tr.24). The epical atmosphere characteristic for the Cinema of Sergio leone is reflected in "Passaggio dal male al bene" (Tr.17), a faster
Two outlaws: a big cow-boy (Bud Spenc~r) and an indian called
reprise compared with the original album version. Further curiosities are an alternative, slower take of "Solo il piccolone"(Tr.20l and an Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a
alternate version of"Vaohanana manitu"(Tr.21) without the voice of the noted actor and voice actor Ferruccio Amendola (sadly corrupt sheriff who has discover gold under the village.
away a few years ago). This CD will'undoubtedly bring a feast for the fans of Bud Spencer, Terence, Hill, Michele
Lupo, Ennio Morricone and of the Italian Western. And the musical voyage dedicated to Bud & Terence will
be continued ..