Once Upon a Time in the West

Name: Once Upon a Time in the West
Brand: RCA
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After deconstructing the classic American Western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, director Sergio Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West, arguably a milestone for both Leone and his musical cohort, Ennio Morricone. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camera work and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne"), and conjures the surreal end of the cowboy mythos via a wonderfully disjointed serial-style number ("The Transgression"). And whether sounding upbeat or stark, Morricone informs it all with the dry and windswept vacancy of the West. Beautiful and stunning.

Product details

Languages:: Published: English , Original: Italian
Translation missing: en.product.details.running_time:: 38 Translation missing: en.product.details.minutes
Publisher:: RCA
Publication Date:: 1989-02-14
Weight:: 100 g
Dimensions:: 1/13/14 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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