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HEXACORDHCD-03 Alessandro Alessandroni TRINITY GOES EAST
01. TRINITY GOES EAST [MAIN THEME]
The most recent soundtrack offering from Italian Maestro Alessandro Alessandroni includes many of the
trademark sounds associated with the Spaghetti western genre. Directed by Robert Tai, and starring
Roberto Lopez and Steve Tagg.
Review by John Mansell
Back in the 1970s, Italian film maker Italo Zingarelli and director Enzo Barboni, or E.B.Clucher as
he was known on film credits, got together and filmed the first in a series of comedy westerns involving
Trinity and his brother Bambino. At first many thought that the idea of combining the Italian western
with comedy was a little risky, but after a while the film spawned a sequel and then a third movie
appeared assuring the series a place in cinematic history. Maybe not the greatest of movies, but
certainly popular, the irreverent Trinity sagas also contained some pretty distinctive sounding
musical scores. Composer Franco Micalizzi scored the first in the series, My Name Is Trinity, and
then on They Still Call Me Trinity composing duties fell to Italian musician composers Guido and Maurizio
De Angelis. The initial trilogy of movies, themselves were the forerunners to numerous offspring which,
although not set in the wild west, were also vehicles for actors Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill, who continued
to get into various scrapes and adventures. Most of these films were scored by the aforementioned brothers
De Angelis. The third Trinity movie had new stars and production team, and a slightly better script,
but there again that would not be that difficult. The musical honours on this occasion have gone to
composer performer Alessandro Alessandroni, who interestingly performed on the very first Trinity score,
as it was he who whistled for composers Franco Micalizzi, and it was also Alessandro,s choir Il Cantori
Moderni that provided the vocalising on the score, as they did on numerous spaghetti western soundtracks
from the early 1960s through to the latter part of the 1970s.
Alessandroni has provided a typical spaghetti western score for Trinity Goes East, and has very cleverly
re-created the "sound" that we associate with that particular genre. It is literally teeming with the
wonderful and original sounds of bygone western scores, whistles, solo electric guitar, banjo, grunts,
choir, racing snare drums, solo trumpet, patriotic sounding Spanish guitar, jaunty saloon piano, harmonica
and harpsichord are all prominent throughout the work. So it not only acts as a perfect tribute to the Italian
western score, but is itself an original and gratifying listening experience, many collector who are
familiar with the music of Morricone, Nicolai, De Masi and many other composers who worked on Italian
productions during the 1960s and 1970s will already be familiar with Maestro Alessandroni, because it was
Alessandroni and his choir that provided the distinct and unforgettable sound on so many scores for westerns
and others. For anyone who may not be familiar with the composer, please do buy this CD, and I am sure that
you will be wanting more of the same. Sound quality is exceptionally good, and the CD is also presented well.
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