Weird CD - I bought it because it seemed to be a 'best-of' the right tempo italian soundtrack reissues, produced for the American market. It doesn't really deliver exactly what I expected though. From the pictures inside, I gather that these tracks are taken from Piero Piccioni's 'Camille 2000', Piero Umiliani's 'Il corpo', 'la legge dei gangsters' and 'svezia inferno e paradiso' and Gianni Ferrio's 'La Morte Accarezza' and Una farfalla conle ali insanguinate'. But there is no more information than the titles and the artists for the 12 tracks, so it's not often not clear which soundtrack each track is taken from.
I'm very big on Piero Umiliani, and many of these tracks were new to me, so I was looking forward to hearing them. They didn't exactly blow me away though - most are rather laid back jazzy pieces, with none of the shimmering brilliance of 'Angeli Bianchi...Angeli Neri'. One exception is 'le legge dei gangsters', which is a jazzy, 8-minute piece with a lot of brass. The mood is reminiscent of some of the wilder tracks on Henry Mancini's 'Peter Gunn' soundtracks.
More interesting to me are the Gianni Ferrio tracks. The first, 'amanda blues' is a nice beat number with organ, while 'soliloquio' is a nice piano piece which gets going quite nicely, with a cool electric harpsichord sound.
Alas, there's only one Piero Piccioni, the 'camille 2000' title theme. I'm not sure quite what to think of this. For the first three minutes, it's almost unbearably lush and sugary, and then a dense beat track comes in, with brass and moody organs. It's quite cool sounding, but rather monotonous.
So, all in all, this isn't a bad disc, but I can't help feeling they could have done a much better job, particularly since the purpose of the project seems to have been to promote the right tempo reiussues. Personally, what I like about soundtracks like these isn't really represented here at all.
