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AUGUSTO MARTELLI IL DIO SERPENTE
Happenstance: a chance happening of picking up an album with a song on it as brilliant as it is bonkers.
Augusto Martelli’s Il Dio Serpente was composed for the 1970 eponymous film, which took Italian Giallo to the Caribbean. One look at the film’s plot confirms that it took an already mental genre to the very fringes. Almost worth a watch even.
Everything about this album is great- the cover, the sleeve images and the music; Italian scoring influenced by a weird parody of African tribal melodies and beats. Yep.
The opening song became quite well known in its time. It is one of the finest four and a half minutes I’ve ever heard.
