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Topic: New Bonezzi Compilation
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sakman
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For those interested in Spanish cinema, or recent converts to the music of Alberto Iglesias and Roque Banos, Silva Screen has released a new disc that features music by Bernardo Bonezzi. Bonezzi was Pedro Almodovar's first composer collaborator and Bonezzi's score for "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" was on of those nominated for a Goya award in Spain (1989).It is interesting to compare the approaches Bonezzi uses to Iglesias' music for Almodovar, and even Morricone's score for "Atame". There is some good stuff on this disc showing that there must have been a tendency in Spain during the 1980s to "update" the Hollywood sound of the 1950s drama thriller. Apart from the two ridiculous songs at the end, this is a great addition to the catalogue!
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posted 11-02-2005 10:56 AM PT (US) ip
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Graham Watt
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sakman, I'm not sure I'm with you on the "updating the 50s Hollywood drama sound", but I'm not familiar with Bonezzi either. What I have noticed in the works of the other composers you mention (and in the scores of Bingen Mendizabal, for example), is a kind of sombre, chamber orchestra approach to drama. It's a serious approach alright, but it can be a bit dour.End of sweeping generalization. No need to list any funky Spanish soundtracks!
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posted 11-03-2005 04:13 AM PT (US) ip
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sakman
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I think it might be more an influence of Hitchcock thrillers, or Herrmann's scores for things like "Vertigo" that have "informed" the music of some of these films. I know that in Almodovar's last couple of films, Iglesias has score moments that are a kind of hybrid of Alfred Newman and Herrmann. It's different from his other earlier work at least. Yes, it is hard to make a sweeping generalization. The pool of scores from this country is so small that it would not be surprising that the ones that get released here have some part that translates better.
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posted 11-03-2005 07:59 AM PT (US) ip
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