Ennio Morricone "Macchie Solari (aka Autopsy)" Original Soundtrack

Chilling giallo soundtrack work from Ennio Morricone -- music that features some very spooky vocal touches from I Cantori Moderni and Edda Dell'Orso! The starting theme is quite sweet, but the soundtrack quickly moves into starker, darker numbers that stand with some of Morricone's best horror work of the 70s -- music that's very artfully prepared, at a level that's much higher than the image on the screen, and which is key to setting its tension. There's no too-easy musical moments here -- and also less of the too-tense or atonal orchestrations that Morricone might use. And instead, the darkness comes almost from an inversion of the usual sweetness -- electric harpsichord played hard and heavy, or Edda Dell'Orso wheezing raspily instead of crooning dreamily! CD reissue features 22 tracks in all -- with titles that include "Sibili", "Con Voce Strozzata", "Macchie Solari", "Passagio Primo", "Preannuncio", "Sesso E Potere", and "Sul Filo".

This soundtrack is now available on iTunes.

MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Simona Sana (Mimsy Farmer) is a young pathologist whom works in a morgue in Rome, Italy which gets with with a wave of violent suicides which are attributed to a summer heat wave. Driven to exhaustion from the intense heat and the long hours worked, Simona struggles to complete her college theses about natural deaths when one suicide victim is brought in the morgue in which a young Catholic priest named Paul Lenox (Barry Primus) who identifies the corpse as his sister, but that did not commit suicide, but was murdered and set up to look like a suicide. Simona teams up with Father Lenox to solve the mystery and stay one step ahead of a mysterious killer who now begins to stalk her when Simona gets a little too close to the truth of the suicides.

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