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ARTIST
UMILIANI, PIERO
TITLE
Il Paradiso Dell'uomo
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
ALTERNATIVE FOX
CATALOG #
FOX 001LP
FOX 001LP
GENRE
SOUNDTRACK
RELEASE DATE
6/7/2019
Alternative Fox present a reissue of
Piero Umiliani
's
Il Paradiso Dell'uomo
, originally released in 1963. Italian film composer Piero Umiliani enjoyed a long and illustrious career, creating nearly 200 film soundtracks, along with 40 music library LPs, and some 35 television themes. Born in Florence in 1926, he was first recognized internationally for his work on the soundtrack of 1958 crime caper
I Soliti Ignoti
(AKA
Big Deal on Madonna Street
,
Persons Unknown
or
Le Pigeon
), which featured noted jazz trumpeter,
Chet Baker
-- the first time, in fact, that jazz music had been used for an Italian comedy feature. Umiliani teamed with Baker again in 1961, along with Croatian-American jazz singer
Helen Merrill
, for the soundtrack of
Smog
, a drama about an Italian lawyer's unintended escapades in Los Angeles, and his work was later featured on American and British television shows, including
The Muppets
, the
Benny Hill Show
, and the
Red Skelton Show
.
Il Paradiso Dell'uomo
(AKA
Man's Paradise
), subtitled "Forbidden Japan", was a little-known documentary released in 1963 focusing on the roles assigned to women in the country, from the traditional pearl-fishing divers of the coast and urban factory workers to traditional dancers and the ambiguous world of geisha and striptease. This impossibly-rare soundtrack mixes eastern and western musical elements, veering from classical tropes to swing jazz, with Chinese singer
Mei Lang Chang
on a couple of tracks and singer/composer/musicologist
Francesco Potenza
leading the chorus on another. 180 gram vinyl.
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