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5.0 out of 5 stars
Diverse and stunning, October 21, 2010
In 1968, a young director named Roberto Faenza hired Maestro Ennio Morricone to score a film entitled Escalation. Faenza wisely put no restrictions on the Maestro, leaving him with total creative freedom. This astoundingly diverse, chilling, amusing, brilliant soundtrack is the result, and the material is diverse enough for several films. Baroque bossa, classical medleys, Gregorian chants, music-box lullabies, Dixieland jazz, rock, Bitches Brew-style jazz two years before Bitches Brew, haunting Eastern fusion, weird sitar solo, even a short track composed entirely of popping sounds - it's all here. The Maestro went all-out and composed a soundtrack of a lifetime. There are two versions of this masterpiece, but the 17-track version is the newer, expanded version and is definitely preferred.
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