The second volume dedicate to the unmissable argentinian composer Waldo de los Ríos is focused in two of his sondtracks for westerns, to which he gave his unique style, away both from the genuine american sound and the italian stilistical rupture that Ennio Morricone and other european composers brought into the genre. Based on the folklore of his country and vanguardist tendencies, Waldo de los Ríos ideas for the western genre can only be described as surprising.
A Town Called Hell, a spanish-british coproduction from 1971 was directed by Robert Parrish and with an outstanding cast starring Telly Savallas, Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, Stella Stevens, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey and Al Lettieri. Never released before, its masters were found in the private archives of the composer and remixed and remastered from the original 1/4 stereo tapes, with the exception of four tracks, in mono.
Savage Pampas, produced in 1966 by Samuel Bronston and Jaime Prades in Spain and directed by the argentinian Hugo Fregonese, it was starred by Robert Taylor, and told the strange event of the battle between the american confederates against the indian and bandits in the distant Argentinian Pampa. It gave Waldo de los Ríos the chance to research and experiment with the origins of the argentinian folklore, composing a great symphonic score with choral pieces and a special percussion section with strange instruments created by himself. The score had 63 tracks, but they had a poor and deteriored sound, and were partly shortened. Fortunately, the composer prepared a brilliant album with 6 suites from the original recording, 47 minutes of music released on Hispavox only in Spain and Argentina. For this edition was remastered in stereo sound from the original master tapes.
Standard double CD jewel case. Includes a 28 page booklet with film stills and extensive liner notes from both titles.
CD1
A TOWN CALLED HELL
1. Prologue (0:37)
2. The attack (4:28)
3. Main title (1:51)
4. Arrival at Bastarda (1:59)
5. The priest (2:45)
6. Two more dead (0:32)
7. A funeral carriage arrives at Bastarda (1:33)
8. The burial (1:05)
9. Don Carlos (2:09)
10. Fighting the old woman (0:59)
11. The gallows (0:40)
12. The recurrent nightmare (1:02)
13. The tomb / The photographs (0:43)
14. Shadows in the night (2:11)
15. The sun shines over bastarda (1:31)
16. El coronel (0:50)
17. Where is El Aguila? (2:35)
18. The corral (2:17)
19. The executions (0:54)
20. Death of Luis (1:22)
21. Back to the cemetery (0:16)
22. The blind father (1:22)
23. The story of El Aguila (4:22)
24. Attacking the church (1:42)
25. El Aguila (2:06)
CD2
SAVAGE PAMPAS
1. Overture and main titles (7:47)
2. The militia (6:04)
3. The landscape (5:30)
4. The Ranqueles indians (9:15)
5. The love (7:17)
6. The violence and finale (11:40)
7. Overture (original version) (5:33)
8. The landscape (original editing) (7:51)
9. Savage Pampas (demo version 1 -with chorus-) (0:54)
10. Savage Pampas (demo version 2 -without chorus (0:46)
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