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This is a translation of the Italian soundtrack CD booklet.
Thanks to Francesco for his help.
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Dario Argento: the goblin and me
Finally I make another giallo, one of those tense, mathematical thrillers, precisely organised as geometrical figures, theorems to be always invented. Finally, after so many years.
I did have a story. And it was a giallo, more classic than ever. So I concentrated on it, I wrote the plot, I thought a lot about it. Then, when all the characters came to me, when the story began to flow smooth and precise, when the heavy atmosphere was sketched out and the killing frenzy was unchained and the victims terrorised as sacrificial lambs, then "Nonhosonno" was born.
Why this title? Because there's a character in the film, the former police chief Moretti, who almost never sleeps. And also the killer is so caught up in his/her destructive frenzy that he/she doesn't have the time to sleep. And also because the dark, hard, shameless giallos look like bloody tales, the ones I loved when I was a child.
The monstrous images I show always have a great allie, inseparable and loyal, that follows them frame by frame: the music. "Nonhosonno" marks the return of Goblin in my cinema. They started off with me in "Profondo Rosso" and we kept on together with "Suspiria", "Tenebre" and "Phenomena". Among many musical successes Goblin had, I'm really happy to have worked with them again after many years, taking again the thread of a musical discourse that strongly characterised my films. For "Nonhosonno" the Goblin demonstrated once again that they understand my thoughts as a director, turning them into musical notes, from the serenity of a love theme and the horror of a macabre passage. I hope that the movie "Nonhosonno" and its music will please you too.
finally reunited
Finally, after 22 years, we reunited. We were waiting for the right chance and it came with the new Argento film, "Nonhosonno". Dario, after the enormous success of both the film and the record "Profondo Rosso", went back to the thriller genre, giving us the right chance to get together and compose the score for his new film.
With the original formation (Agostino Marangolo: drums, Massimo Morante: guitar, Fabio Pignatelli: bass and Claudio Simonetti: keyboards) we tried, even with the presence of new technologies, to keep our sound and, at the same time, to create different sounds as we've always done for our soundtracks in the past.
We've always received many messages from our fans from all over the world in these years who have always bought and searched for all the reprints of our old CD's in any way they were represented. So we wish, with this new work, to make our friends finally happy who awaited this reunion for a long time, as we did, showing great care and a lot of patience. We also hope not to make them wait too long for our new production.
goblin's fantastic trip from "profondo rosso" to "nonhosonno": music that won't let you sleep
The year 2001, also named the year of the Fantastic, but also of the Fantasy, Noir and Thriller, marks the great return of Goblin, one of the most beloved rock bands in the world.
It was 1975: "Profondo Rosso" by Dario Argento was in the cinemas all over the world, giving large audiences glassy eyes and palpitations, ready to jump on the seat with their hair standing on end. But there was something creating the panic, sneaking through the bloody frames of that film: the soundtrack. The Goblin created a rock sound that perfectly melded with those bloody scenes, and the atmosphere generated from their compositions created the right tension all through the film.
The fellowship between Dario Argento, director, and the Goblin musicians, gave a unique outcome in the history of the international thriller. After seventeen years from the time of "Phenomena" (1984), the terror in music came back with "Nonhosonno", the latest work of Dario Argento, starring Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi and Chiara Caselli.
If we travel back in the time we can explore the origins of Goblin and how this historical group was born. If the Sixties were characterised by the music of the Beatles and of hundreds of Beat bands on a background of psychedelic colours influenced by Indian culture, the first years of the Seventies were doomed by the rock music of famous groups such as Genesis, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, The Who and Yes.
In the same years, in Italy, very young musicians were following the new stream of Gothic Rock: in this period the first cell of Goblin was born. Originally the group was called Oliver and Eddie Odford brought them to England (at that time he was the producer of Yes). The formation was Claudio Simonetti, keyboards, Massimo Morante, guitar, Fabio Pignatelli, bass, Carlo Bordini, drums. In this very first formation there was also an English singer, Clive Haynes.
After they came to England, the boys understood that the producer Odford had to go to America to follow Yes touring. So Oliver stayed alone in London making some concerts, recording some sessions, but the success did not come, so they come back to Italy, leaving the singer in England.
Back in Italy they linked with Cinevox Records with a new member, the singer Tony Tartarini, and their name changed into Cherry Five. They immediately entered the studio to record their first record, but also to play in recording sessions of soundtracks, being that Cinevox specialised in soundtracks.
In the very first years with Cinevox Records, Cherry Five had some changes in the formation: after Carlo Bordini and Walter Martino, the drummer Agostino Marangolo joined the band and they chose the name Goblin for commercial reasons. Indeed, the first record of Cherry Five had already been released, and they wanted to make a distinction to avoid disorientating the audience.
After having worked with the legendary composer Ennio Morricone for the films "L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo", "Il gatto a nove code" e "Quattro mosche di velluto grigio", Dario Argento wanted more of a rock sound for his new film "Profondo Rosso", and so he chose those four young musicians. Claudio Simonetti remembers the first meeting with Argento:
"It all happened in a night. Dario met us in the offices of Cinevox Records, in the evening we went at his place to talk about the film and the soundtrack. He had already chosen Giorgio Gaslini, a great jazzman and orchestral composer with whom he had already worked a couple of years before for the film "Le cinque giornate". But Dario wanted a rock score, although Gaslini was already working on his music for orchestra. During the night we had already invented the main theme and in the following day we were in the studio".
"Profondo Rosso" was a blockbuster and the soundtrack sold more than one million copies all around the world and was repressed in many countries in the world. The band left forever the name Cherry Five and, as Goblin, worked on soundtracks, in which they reached enormous fame. |
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Giallo
(pronounced 'djallo, plural gialli) is an italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language, however, it is used in a broader meaning that is closer to the french fantastique genre, including elements of horror fiction and eroticism.
The word giallo is Italian for "yellow" and stems from the origin of the genre as a series of cheap paperback novels with trademark yellow covers.
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