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This year we are celebrating our 5th anniversary.
Since our first two-fer CD release (‘‘L’Incorrigible’’ and ‘‘Va voir maman, papa travaille’’ composed by Georges Delerue), we have released 86 albums (physical and digital) with more than 130 miscellaneous titles (film and television soundtracks) with the same unbroken passion.
Music Box Records is above all a team effort. We would like to thank warmly all the composers, the composer’s heirs, publishers, producers (major and independent companies), all the professionals in the film music business (retailers, distributors…) and, of course, our precious collaborators (graphic designer, sound engineers and writers) who offered you a very rich and diverse catalogue of great soundtracks all over the world.
In May 2014, we launched a new online store in the soundtrack market and became both retailer and record label. We take pride in maintaining this new successful business for all the film music fan community and offer a constantly expanding online catalogue which currently contains over thousands of soundtrack titles.
The success of our label is also due to our loyal customers who enthusiastically follows all of our releases. Thank you again for your kind support and your everlasting trust!
Therefore, to celebrate our 5th anniversary, we are offering a discount on many products, including the two latest CD releases from Music Box Records. Sale starts right now at www.musicbox-records.com and runs through February 14, 2016:
http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/prices-drop
Please enjoy your visit!
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ESPION, LÈVE-TOI
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by Ennio Morricone
New remastered expanded edition supervised by Claudio Fuiano & Daniel Winkler.
45 minutes of music, including 3 unreleased tracks.
8-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Patrick Bouster.
Limited Collector's Edition.
Ref: MBR-084
Release Date: in stock
Shortly after Le Professionnel (Georges Lautner, 1981), Ennio Morricone composes the score for another French film, Espion, lève-toi (1982), directed by Yves Boisset, with whom he already worked on L'Attentat (The French Conspiracy, 1972). Even if both films have common points, apart from the dialogue written by Michel Audiard (secret services, main character menaced and then crushed by the system, tragic end), it is not the case about the soundtrack.
Through three main themes, the composer creates a tense atmosphere but always accessible. The powerful track Marche en la, through many versions, sustains the movie in moments of action and menace. Sweet and sentimental, the theme in Mélodie pour Anna and Bugle pour Anna accompanies the woman, but also the fragility, the human and conjugal sides of the main character played by Lino Ventura, into two very different variations. The third theme, with a slow tempo and low tones, carries the mystery, the meanders of the Secret Services and its underlying menace.
As often in Morricone's music, the tones are important and each instrument brings a peculiar color although perceivable over the orchestra, although in a coherent whole. Here the special atmosphere is played by the Oscar Valdambrini's flugelhorn (present in the three themes), the pianoforte, the bassoon, the percussion and the flutes.
The original LP issued in 1982 contained ten tracks including the song Canción del Fuego not composed by Morricone and the track (Ombres suspendues) coming from the film Le Secret (Robert Enrico, 1974), which is not included in this present edition. In 2000, the Screen Trax CD release contained sixteen tracks, but without featuring the song. Thanks to a new stereo master tape found in Italy, this new Music Box Records release, supervised and mastered by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, presents the most complete version of Espion, lève-toi, including the song and three never-before-released tracks. A nice occasion to rediscover the score with improved sound.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Marche en la (3:00)
2. Espion, lève-toi (interlude) (3:42)
3. Bugle pour Anna (la rencontre) (2:21)
4. Téléphone sans réponse (1:20)
5. Mélodie pour Anna (version album) (2:43)
6. Espion, lève-toi (final) (3:45)
7. Secret nocturne (1:06)
8. Enlèvement et homicide (1:14)
BONUS TRACKS
9. Espion, lève-toi (1:05)
10. Marche en la (1:26)
11. Espion, lève-toi (4:23)
12. Mélodie pour Anna (version film) (2:41)
13. Espion, lève-toi (1:33)
14. Marche en la (2:22)
15. Mélodie pour Anna (version courte) (0:57)
16. Espion, lève-toi (tension) (0:34)
17. Marche en la (0:52)
18. Espion, lève-toi (1:25)
19. Marche en la (version film) (2:45)
20. Canción del Fuego (4:20)
Performed by Usted Del Fuego
Total Time • 44:26
For sound clips and available for order, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/3224-espion-leve-toi.html
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Am I the only one excited by this release? I dare say that it's FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!
Un autre coup de maître! Bravo les gars!
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Yes, solid score. Extra Ennio music always welcome. Good to see Patrick B getting to do some liner notes and if Mr Winkler has done the remastering it'll be a good job.
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Thanks Music Box for this great release and for so many other wonderful ones over the years. Many wonderful titles by many wonderful composers, treats not only for the ears, but also for the eyes. Please continue to do what you do so well. We especially look forward to many many more Morricone treasures, that should be out there available to music lovers everywhere and that would definitely benefit from the special Music Box treatment. Thanks again!
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Thanks for posting Cedric!
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