Premiere CD release of lush Stelvio Cipriani score, written under
the influence of the composer's seminal romantic works such
as Anonimo veneziano and Dedicato a una stella.
Il Giardino dell'Eden (also known as Eden no sono) was a
obscure Japanese-Italian co-production directed by Yasuzo
Masumura, who used to study in Rome. The story is set in
Italy, where teenaged thief Michael fells for a well-to-do girl,
Alessandra. By taking a ride on the boy's stolen motorcycle,
the couple gets implausibly stranded on a beach, where they
engage in a Blue Lagoon-like sexual awakening.
Composer Stelvio Cipriani provides an upbeat teen romance
score with the participation of harmonica soloist Franco
De Gemini. The CD contains the original LP program of the
soundtrack that was released only in Japan by Cinedisc,
plus our edition also contains twelve new cuts to round out
the package. Fans of Cipriani's work may be interested to find
an infectious motive that previously headlined the music of
Concorde Affaire'79.
After an intense search for the original masters tapes, which
have been irretrievably lost, we resorted to the only possible
source preserved in the world: the back-up tapes owned by
Maestro Stelvio Cipriani. Carefully restored and mastered by
Claudio Fuiano, this release is presented in full stereo, with the
anomaly of an small digital disturbance in the tracks 10 and 23
(the same disturbances that were also in the Japanese vinyl,
so we deduce that is a failure recording itself).
The CD score runs over 43 minutes, containing all the
music recorded for this curious production. The 12-page
booklet is richly illustrated with film stills and contains liner
notes by Gergely Hubai, discussing the director, the movie,
the composer as well as the score.
The Original Japanese Album
1 DEDICATO ALL'AMORE (1:41)
2 INIZIA L'AMORE (1:47)
3 ARRIVO ALL'EDEN (2:22)
4 LA FUGA (2:46)
5 SOLITUDINE E FANTASIA (0:50)
6 LA PRIMA VOLTA (2:00)
7 LA SPIAGGIA (1:316)
8 LUNA PARK (2:03)
9 L'ANELLO (0:54)
10 MICHELLE E ALESSANDRA (3:00)
11 LA REGGIA SULLA SPIAGGIA (1:38)
Bonus tracks – previously unreleased
12 DEDICATO ALL'AMORE (# 2) (0:49)
13 LUNA PARK (# 2) (2:14)
14 INIZIA L'AMORE (# 2) (2:40)
15 DEDICATO ALL'AMORE (# 3) (1:59)
16 LA SPIAGGIA (# 2) (0:58)
17 INIZIA L'AMORE (# 3) (2:51)
18 ARRIVO ALL'EDEN (# 2) (2:31)
19 LA SPIAGGIA (# 3) (1:07)
20 DEDICATO ALL'AMORE (# 4) (2:46)
21 ARRIVO ALL'EDEN (# 3) (2:04)
22 DEDICATO ALL'AMORE (# 5) (1:18)
23 MICHELLE E ALESSANDRA (# 2) (2:20)
TOTAL TIME: 43:53 |
