Quartet Records, in collaboration with Cinevox Records, presents a remastered, expanded edition of the classic Angelo Francesco Lavagnino western score for a most unusual duel.
Directed by Eugenio Martín and José Luis Merino in 1968, REQUIEM PER UN GRINGO made use of unorthodox costume and set design and a great plot device to say something new in the genre. Based on the idea of a Ulysses-like character who uses his brain against his violent opponents, the film tells the story of peace-loving bounty hunter Ross Logan who takes revenge on his brother's killers by turning his foes against each other while using a natural phenomenon to defeat them.
Starting off with the ''Sandstorm'' song performed by I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni, the opening credits use familiar Sergio Leone-inspired titles of aggressively tinted movie scenes played against animated opening credits. The score features two different organs, including a church organ for Logan's love of astronomy. Some of the other highlights include haunting vocal effects, Lavagnino's signature percussion work over sustained organ notes, and ''Follow Me,'' a dance number that unwittingly sows seeds of discontent within the gang of marauders.
A selection of 18 tracks was issued on LP by Cinevox when the film came out, and the same program (plus an 11-minute suite with unreleased cues and takes) was reissued in a Lavagnino western compilation on Saimel in 2006. This new CD, produced by Claudio Fuiano and mastered by Chris Malone from first-generation master tapes courtesy of Cinevox, features the original program augmented with previously unreleased cues and a bonus suite of surviving stereo cues. The lavishly illustrated 12-page liner notes by Gergely Hubai discuss the film and the score.
Tracklist
The Original Album
1. Sandstorm (2:18)
2. Twilight (2:15)
3. The moon and you (1:51)
4. Trouble in Store (0:59)
5. Fear and Pleasure (1:47)
6. Feather weight heart (1:40)
7. Pistols Galore (1:55)
8. Don't look now (1:31)
9. Moody mountain (1:01)
10. Take that (1:38)
11. Far from now (0:38)
12. Single handed (1:01)
13. The Price of a Gun (1:00)
14. Heartbeat (1:47)
15. Cloudy Prairy (1:39)
16. Follow me (1:46)
17. Thoughtless Greenery (1:38)
18. Misty tree (2:56)
Bonus tracks
19. Requiem per un gringo (Nocturne) (2:57)
20. Requiem per un gringo (Waiting) (1:49)
21. follow me (Film version) (1:01)
22. Requiem per un gringo (Cavalcade) (1:48)
23. Requiem per un gringo (Cavalcade #2) (1:06)
24. Requiem per un gringo (Ambush) (1:32)
25. Requiem per un gringo (Fear in the night) (2:36)
26. Requiem per un gringo (Guitar cantina) (3:01)
27. Requiem per un gringo (Western story) (1:33)
28. Requiem per un gringo (Bandidos) (1:55)
29. Requiem per un gringo (Nostalgic moment) (1:58)
30. Requiem per un gringo (Before the attack) (2:13)
31. Requiem per un gringo (Gringo) (2:29)
32. Requiem per un gringo (Suite in stereo) (4:11)
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