Another previously unreleased Alessandroni score has finally re-emerged from the bowels of the unknown! The full soundtrack to Alfonso Brescia’s sexy comedy Frittata all'italiana (1976) is now available for the first time in digital format in all online music stores.
Despite the film’s ridiculously low budget, the Maestro, as usual, managed to make a virtue out of necessity and created melody-rich and super-catchy themes (the foxtrot-based number used for the film’s title sequence, “Ticket”, for instance), some of which purely instrumental, while others incorporating Alessandroni’s signature whistling or the iconic, sexy vocalisms of his wife Giulia De Mutiis (aka Kema). As expected in this genre, the Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist penned little burlesque marches and grotesque motifs (spiced up with a good dose of sleaziness courtesy of electronic drums), alternating them with pieces that are more easy listening ("Ragazzo innamorato"), romantic (“Weekend di Primavera”, “Sereno e Romantico”) or folk. But there is room also for evocative, suspenseful and tension-filled tracks (“Pericolo Ignoto” and “Ombre Silenziose” immediately come to mind). All in all, this release will both entertain and offer an insight into a little-known side of Alessandroni’s remarkable (and too-long-forgotten) filmography as a composer.