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FA6710 L'harem / Her Harem
Auther: Jonathan Broxton

ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWS, Part 2-30

L’HAREM (1967)

L’Harem was a European comedy-drama with sexual undertones, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring Carroll Baker. Baker plays Margherita, a sexually liberated young woman with several male lovers, who plays emotional games of pride and desire with three of them, pitting them against each other to win her affections during a summer trip to Croatia. The film was intended to be something of a commentary on gender stereotypes, and had the potential to be scandalous by having the lead character be female – a role reversal from the usual 1960s tropes of men having affairs with numerous beautiful women – but the film was a flop.

Morricone’s score, unexpectedly, undercuts the drama by containing a lot of music that is quite jazzy and upbeat. The main recurring theme, “L’Harem,” is sultry piece based on a languid solo saxophone melody accompanied by moody strings and some vaguely Middle Eastern percussion ideas involving light chimes, castanets, and watery-sounding percussion.

The score is quite short, and so the soundtrack album is based around multiple extended variations on these two main themes, some of which are close to 10 minutes long. Beat Records released an excellent album in 2017, with five pieces, plus some bonus tracks from the 1965 film Menage all’Italia.

Track Listing: 1. L’Harem Primo (7:06), 2. Sei Corde #1 (5:21), 3. L’Harem Primo – Solo Sax (9:55), 4. Sei Corde #2 (2:45), 5. L’Harem Secondo (6:26). Beat Records BCM-9548, 31 minutes 33 seconds.
August 20, 2017
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l'harem primo (una per tre) (07:05)
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sei corde (rituale arcaico) (05:21)
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l'harem secondo (06:25)
Attachment: About Jonathan Broxton
Jon is a film music critic and journalist, who since 1997 has been the editor and chief reviewer for Movie Music UK, one of the world’s most popular English-language film music websites, and is the president of the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Over the last 20+ years Jon has written over 3,000 reviews and articles and conducted numerous composer interviews. In print, Jon has written reviews and articles for publications such as Film Score Monthly, Soundtrack Magazine and Music from the Movies, and has written liner notes for two of Prometheus Records’ classic Basil Poledouris score releases, “Amanda” and “Flyers/Fire on the Mountain”. He also contributed a chapter to Tom Hoover’s book “Soundtrack Nation: Interviews with Today’s Top Professionals in Film, Videogame, and Television Scoring”, published in 2011. In the late 1990s Jon was a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, and worked with them on the films “Relative Values” with music by John Debney, and “The Ring of the Buddha” with music by Oliver Heise, as well as on a series of concerts with Randy Newman. In 2012, Jon chaired one of the “festival academies” at the 5th Annual Film Music Festival in Krakow, Poland. He is a member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the premier nonprofit organization for composers, lyricists, and songwriters working motion pictures, television, and multimedia. (Here)
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