Format Details: Indie Exc Super Limited Red 2LP
Release Date: 29 May 2026
Label: Quartet Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436560846178
Genres: Soundtracks Soundtracks
Release Date: 05 April 2024
Label: Sub OST (Code 7)
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 0766429143673
Genres: Soundtracks Soundtracks
Description
Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Ricordi, presents a completely revised, remastered edition of the dynamic, classic score by Ennio Morricone for the 1970 Charles Bronson action vehicle CITTA' VIOLENTA (aka VIOLENT CITY), directed by Sergio Sollima and co-starring Telly Savalas and Jill Ireland. The film is about a hit man who, after being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, sets out to take revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.Ennio Morricone's score is nervous, insistent, sometimes ironic. Far from using music as a simple environmental resource, the music constructs a sonic architecture that is closely aligned with the subjectivity of the protagonist, adopting his point of view, transforming the perception of the environment into an auditory texture. Thus, the music does not merely follow his emotional arc but amplifies it as a resource for introspection and narrative complexity. The result is a musical device that revolves around three structural cores: the city as a violent labyrinth, the killer's split consciousness, and love as a betrayed promise.The soundtrack album was released in both Italy and Japan in 1970 with different cover art. The same program was first reissued on CD in Japan in the early nineties. An expanded edition of the score was issued by GDM in 2006, later reissued with two additional bonus tracks in 2012 by the Intermezzo label. This is a reissue of that program produced by Claudio Fuiano and Daniel Winkler, remastered by Chris Malone. The booklet includes an essay by Miguel Angel Ordonez, discussing the film and score.
Description
The Black vinyl press is sold out - we've managed to get a handful of the super limited Red Vinyl version for release in Feb. A tight, atmospheric and pretty damn funky soundtrack composed by the Maestro Ennio Morricone for the 1970 crime-drama Citta Violenta starring the mighty Charles Bronson and directed by Sergio Sollima.
Tracklisting
Ennio Morricone
Bill Gould / Jared Blum
Albert Verrecchia
Riz Ortolani
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
