Franco Micalizzi – Stridulum (The Visitor) (1979, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:

A1 Stridulum Theme 4:30
A2 Here's The Dream (Sadness Theme) 2:35
A3 Running Away From Jerzy 3:28
A4 Sadness Theme 3:28
A5 Distressing Sequence 2:42
B1 Hospital Sequence 1:57
B2 Voices For Sadness Theme 1:43
B3 Jerzy, Again 4:28
B4 Sadness Theme (Second Part) 1:13
B5 Atmosphere 2:39
B6 Back In The Hospital 2:28
B7 Distressing Sequence 1:12

The film "Stridulum" (Aka "The Visitor") was directed in 1979 by Giulio Paradisi. Starring Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston, Franco Nero, Shelley Winters, Sam Peckinpah, Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Paige Conner, Ja Townsend, Jack Dorsey, Hsio Ho Chao.

Franco Micalizzi has written one of the most beautiful scores of his entire career (and one of the favourites of the composer himself), where a main theme quoting ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' in the introduction then develops into a powerful and driving funky music piece that recalls so many famous police movie themes of this author, alternated with a romantic love theme, action music and dissonant symphonic-electronic atmospheres.

A proper rescue and preservation of the Italian Silver Age and of the music art of Franco Micalizzi.