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Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:50 am**

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film ... -1.4297189

Wrote some of the most evocative film music ever.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:58 am**

Faaack. First ever heard his work on a Fistful of Dynamite, without which I reckon Goldfrapp have no first album. Wrote some of the best and collaborated with the best right up till the end.

RIP.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:05 am**

One of the greats, RIP.

Here’s my main man paying tribute. Patton released albums by Morricone on his Ipecac label and they collaborated on occasion.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:07 am**

Wow. This only arrived last week:

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:15 am**

Estasi dell'oro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Kujas1IsM

or if you prefer a more classical version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3IlqY1CbI0

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:53 am**

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:56 am**

sheeeeeeit

have this lp jacket framed on my wall

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:19 am**

That's a shame. I had his Mission Theme on the shortlist for my wedding (an in-joke about the "new world" - yes yes lame

)

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:26 am**

RIP Il Maestro, the greatest film compoaser of all time... nobody will ever match his body of work.

Time to spam with a few favourites...

(reused by Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds)

Everyone should also check out his work with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, otherwise known as The Group...

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:28 am**

Auckman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:19 am That's a shame. I had his Mission Theme on the shortlist for my wedding (an in-joke about the "new world" - yes yes lame )

The Mission theme is a stunning piece of music. I was only discussing the Cinema Paradiso soundtrack with my wife yesterday. So many iconic soundtracks.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:31 am**

The best version of The Good the Bad and the Ugly, IMHO:

In fact, Geoff Love and his Orchestra make all the best versions of the old western movie themes.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:44 am**

Magical, evocative, superb.

RIP

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:58 am**

Sad day, everyone knows some of his work even if the name is unfamiliar . Can you imagine the Dollars films without the evocative soundtrack ?
One of the first where the music really ‘made’ the movie and as integral as any piece of acting or cinematic shot imho - and only second to visual effect.

Posted: **Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:27 am**

Yeeb wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:58 am Sad day, everyone knows some of his work even if the name is unfamiliar . Can you imagine the Dollars films without the evocative soundtrack ?
One of the first where the music really ‘made’ the movie and as integral as any piece of acting or cinematic shot imho - and only second to visual effect.

That was the whole point. Leone wanted the music to be integral: so much so that some scenes in films were extended deliberately to enable the score/piece to run its full length.

He wanted to mimic the orchestra's impact in opera/theatre but did not have the funds for that. Hence the use of stuff like electric guitars, jew-harps etc. I think Leone and Morricone were at school together.

[Read some of this is the notes accompanying the album posted above]