 | Two gorgeous soundtracks brought to light from the vaults of the unacknowledged "genre" italian cinema. L'UOMO DAGLI OCCHI DI GHIACCIO - di Peppino De Luca e I Marc 4 UN UOMO DALLA PELLE DURA - di Carlo Pes The two films have several common elements: both wink to the US market, the plots focus on the research of truth about murders charged to innocent people and in the soundtracks there is the presence of the Marc 4. On "L'uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio", the Marc 4 were credited as music authors together with Peppino De Luca, while in "Un Uomo dalla pelle dura" the only credited music author is the composer Carlo Pes who, with any chance, relied on his usual work companions, or rather the other three components of the Marc 4, title that isn't other than the acrostic of the founder members' names: Maurizio (Majorana), Antonello (Vannucchi), Roberto (Podio) and Carlo (Pes). The Marc 4, usually famous for a wide bunch of library music, is a trade mark frequently associated within film music productions. During their long career as musicians for RAI Orchestra, thanks to their remarkable technical ability, Marc 4 became performers of many movie themes composed by Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Gianni Ferrio, Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Alessandro Alessandroni, without forgetting a long and intense cooperation with Armando Trovaioli. Furthermore each one had important confirmations as session man and, about that, it hasn't to forget the presence of Podio and Majorana in the ... |