Ennio Morricone - Macchie solari (Visualizer)

‘Macchie Solari (Versione Singolo)’ is the closing track of the new album ‘Morricone Segreto’Morricone Segreto, the first posthumous work of Ennio Morricone. Available to order now: https://Morricone.lnk.to/SegretoID

The song originally appeared at the end of the homonymous 1974 film, alongside the closing credits and was first released in 1976 as a 7-inch single, exclusively for the Japanese market, on the Seven Seas label. This is one of the more melodic themes from ‘Morricone Segreto’: melancholy and delicate, it parts the clouds with a ray of peace and beauty after an ocean of strain.

The track, conducted by Bruno Nicolai, was composed for orchestra, oboe and choir - the renowned I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. The whole soundtrack of the film is perhaps one of the most extreme experiments ever made by Morricone. As a film, Macchie Solari is a crucial work for the Italian thriller genre, as its ambiguity between the real and unearthly heralds the imminent overflow of giallo into horror proper. It was directed by expert filmmaker Armando Crispino, starring the iconic scream queen Mimsy Farmer. Farmer is especially known for appearing, during those very years, in Dario Argento’s Quattro mosche di velluto grigio (1971) and Francesco Barilli’s Il profumo della signora in nero (1974).

Macchie Solari is a great film of ambience and feels, immersed in a ghostly, deserted Rome, completely blinded by a sultry August heatwave: a perfect metaphysical scenario for a glacial suspense story.

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