Sesso Matto

Funky grooves, floating vocals, mellow keyboards, and a whole lot more -- easily one of the greatest soundtracks ever from the legendary Armando Trovajoli -- and certainly one of the grooviest too! There's a sublime quality to this score that's well made Sessomatto one of the best-remembered albums from the glory years of the Italian soundtracks -- a sense of space, pacing, and timing that are simply breathtaking -- and which are the perfect summation of Trovajoli's earlier experiments in music. As with his score to La Matriarca, the instrumentation here varies often -- sometimes a bit of horns, nicely compressed; sometimes a floating harmonica line; sometimes keyboards; and sometimes a funky rhythm topped with vocals -- all woven together in a rich pastiche of styles that makes the album one of the deepest soundtracks you'll hope to own from the time. The remastering here is wonderful -- way better than the previous Japanese reissues, and done in a way that really isolates the best elements of the music -- letting the simple balance of sound and space resonate beautifully, and exposing even more of Trovajoli's genius with a wealth of bonus tracks. These added numbers really open the whole thing up -- taking the album way past the familiar "Sessomatto" theme (reworked and remixed for the dancefloor often in later years), and almost creating a mini-movie in sound -- with all the requisite scene shifts and drama to match! CD features a whopping 41 tracks in all -- with titles that include "Sessomatto", "Signora Sono Le Otto", "Two Happy People", "Ammuri Ammuri", "D'Amore Si Muore", "Un Amore Difficile", "Due Cuori E Una Birra", "Bravo Balli bene", "Scappa Gilda", "Vorrei Che Fosse Amore", "Searching For Something", and "L'Ospite"

Dusty Groove

Sesso Matto [Armando Trovaioli] (Beat Records 1972)