Gestazione/Totem Secondo - Ennio Morricone

Well, What can i say about this....Although this is not a Score per se..It is composed by one of, if not 'The Greatest' Composers of all time 'Ennio Morricone'

Gestazione/Totem Secondo - 1982

The First side of this LP 'Gestazione' gives us a dark interpretation of Life itself, The Mark for such great scores like The Thing/L'uminoide To name a few..

From the start to Finish you do not know what to expect.. The dark ambient tension lulls us into the sense of deprevation we are all too familier with...Then we are met with Piano Strings and Bass plucks, intertwined in sononimous tones and infrequent unjust motion, giving us again the sense that this is how Life begins..

Then natures cry, Female 'Oohs and Aahs intervene with lighter, yest still dark string melodies which to me interprets the next phase in life.

The last 5 minute build and crescendo is still a frightening experience to adhere and listen to, bt at the same time fulfils the ears to a pleasing disarray of Morricone nubiance

This for me is a very surreal piece of composition....Nothing that you would expect Morricone to do, but pulls it off with such panache you can do nothing but sit and listen, Entranced by every aspect of the track. Its pull over the listener has quite an effect...

The second sice of this LP 'Totem Secondo'...Starts with erratic bursts of Oboe and Bassoon again sustaining that fear of what is happening, nothing to ordinary here. The stabbing Woodwind is son juxstaposed with Dark, Melodic Clarinet which makes the sense feel uneasy.
4 minutes and 20 seconds into the track we are greeted with an all too familier burst of a track from 'The Thing' before we are met with jumping Bassoon and playful Oboe. Clarinet comes in again trying to even things out a bit before Being succumb to elongated notation that slowly weaves into disharmony, creating a background for War & Death