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Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in the West (1999)
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01) Once Upon a Time in the West
02) Chi mai
03) The Mission
04) Once Upon a Time in America
05) Gabriel's Oboe
06) Sacco and Vanzetti
07) Le vent, le cri
08) The Falls
09) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
10) Baci dopo il tramonto
11) Le Marginal
12) Estate 1943
13) Lontano
14) The Man With the Harmonica

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1999

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Arguably a milestone for both director Sergio Leone and his musical cohort Ennio Morricone. After deconstructing the classic American western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camerawork 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.



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