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Piero Umiliani - Il Paradiso Dell'uomo LP
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Alternative Fox Records
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.
A1. Cielo Di Tokio
A2. Pescatrici, Perle E Pescecani
A3. Un Paese Di Sogno
A4. Fuji Golf
A5. Il Bagno Delle Vergini
A6. Le Spiagge Di Ohiso
A7. Donne Di Notte
B1. Geisha Party
B2. Base-Ball All'Americana
B3. Vecchi Tatuaggi E Nuovi Gangsters
B4. Spogliarello Twist
B5. La Roccia Dei Suicidi
B6. Cielo Di Tokio