Kill!

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Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and EMI General Music Publishing, presents an expanded and remastered edition of Armando Trovajoli'sinfectious score for the Ettore Scola film noir IL COMMISSARIO PEPE (1969), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Silvia Dionisio. The film is about Pepe(Tognazzi), a police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province who investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners. During hisinvestigations he also learns that a former manicurist has shacked up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes herself to keep her pimp, afamous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local conventis run by a lesbian and his own girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open, but his superior put obstaclesin his way.The collaboration between Armando Trovajoli and Ettore Scola has been one of the most celebrated in Italian cinema during their four decadestogether, producing classics such as L'ARCIDIAVOLO, BRUTTI SPORCHI E CATTIVI, DRAMMA DELLA GELOSIA, LA TERRAZZA, LA FAMIGLIAand PASSION D'AMORE, among others. For Scola, Trovajoli's music was the voice of his films, the single element that really completed them. In ILCOMMISSARIO PEPE, he contributed one of his most celebrated scores, with the famous song "We'll Keep Trying," performed by Lydia McDonald, aswell as several urban and bittersweet themes to showcase the world of moral decay depicted in the film. The recording also featured other prestigiouscollaborators such as I Marc 4, Edda Dell'Orso, and Alessandro Alessandroni, making this score even more iconic.A selection of 10 cues from IL COMMISSARIO PEPE was released on LP in Italy by RCA at the time of the film's premiere. The same program wasreleased on CD in the 1990s as part of a compilation dedicated to Ugo Tognazzi by Point Records. An extended 18-track version was released inJapan in 2006 in a limited edition. This is the first time the complete score has been released. Produced by Claudio Fuiano, restored and mastered byChris Malone, the booklet includes a detailed essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez on the film, the score and the relationship between Trovajoli and Scola.