VARIOUS Pieces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP cult 80's slasher giallo

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Pieces (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP

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    It's only fitting that one of the most ludicrous slasher movies to splat across theatre screens in the early 1980s has a score this slapdash. Not that I'm knocking either of them - Pieces has some unforgettable scenes, and at times feels like it was directed by someone under the influence of dissociative drugs. Always a plus for me. What other slasher film features this much inexplicable human behavior, nonsensical plot-lines and unchecked sleaze? What other early 80's slasher has this much torso abuse and baffling kung fu encounters? It's gotta be seen. And in keeping with the haphazard vibe of Juan Piquer Simon's opus, the filmmakers cobbled together a score featuring music from five different composers and songwriters, Tarantino-style, all of it licensed from the Creazioni Artistiche Musicali library of film music, and pretty much all of it had appeared in previous films. Talk about a schizophrenic score. There's a ton of old-school soundtrack blues on this thing, the sort of stuff you'd expect to hear in the background of an early 80's television cop drama. The Lp starts off with the Hammond-drenched honky-tonk country of Stephen Ham and Alain Leroux's "Up Country", possibly the peppiest piece of music I've ever heard introduce a slasher film, which is then immediately followed by the bloozy roadhouse jazz of Fabio Frizzi's "Cocktail Molotov" and Enrico Pieranunzi & Silvano Chimenti's "I Love Blondes".
    You'd never guess that any of that stuff was from a horror film. But then the next six tracks are all short cues that were appropriated from composer Carlo Maria Cordio's score to D'Amato's little-known 1981 gut-muncher Absurd, whose tense synthesizer drones and throbbing jazz-funk deliver a Goblin-esque atmosphere of suspense and dread. The rest of the score is rounded out by a bunch of tracks from Stelvio Cipriani's score to the 1979 Italian exorcism shocker Un'Ombra Nell'Ombra (aka aka Ring Of Darkness), which I've gotta say is some of my favorite work from this Italian composer; with it's eerie music-box melodies, dreamy xylophone tones, swirling synthesizers and undertones of dark progressive rock, it's easy to see why the maniacs behind Pieces would want to pilfer this stuff for their film. The latter three-fourths of the album is solidly atmospheric and creepy, definitely worth checking out if you're into this sort of proggy European horror film music. Serious collectors may find that they already have that stuff, though, if they own either of the complete Maria Cordio or Cipriani scores. But then of course, if you're a total troglodyte like me who needs to own every complete score to an 80's horror film that he can get his hands on, it's has go on the shelf. Certainly looks great, with nice new cover art and a simple, no-frills presentation. Pretty limited at just four hundred fifty copies, too.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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