Famous for her peculiar style in directing and screenwriting, Lina Wertmuller has always paid particular attention to her film soundtracks, often written by great composers like Nino Rota and Piero Piccioni,sometimes composed by Lina Wertmuller herself, together with Lilli Greco. Lina Wertmuller occasionally also performs the music, like in the song "Luna di Shangai".
She is an indian singer who gained great success at the end of the 70s. Her most famous song is "The devil is loose", which consecrated her as one of the great protagonists of the disco music. In those years, she is chosen to perform some tracks for the movie "Squadra antigangster" ("The gang that sold America"), whose soundtrack is composed by the Goblin and Fabio Frizzi.
A composer and arranger who worked both for pop and film music. In the 60s even Hollywood was charmed by his song "More", opening theme for "Mondo cane", that lead him to a nomination for the Academy Award. In 1977 he composed the score of "La ragazza dal pigiama giallo" ("The pyjama girl case"), produced by Cinevox Record. It includes the track "Look at her dancing", characterized by a disco atmosphere and performed by Amanda Lear. This track is today very rare and it is amongst every collector's most wanted list.
Eclectic and innovative composer, he is in touch with the main protagonits of the 20th century contemporary music (Pierre Boulez, Oliver Messiaen, John Cage and many more). He is the teacher of Luigi Nono and together with Luciano Berio he creates the Rai musical phonology institute and the magazine "Incontri musicali". He anticipates the structuralism and the electronic music. He composes some movie soundtracks like "La morte ha fatto l'uovo" ("A Curious Way to Love") by Giulio Questi.
The turning point in his career comes when his music teacher Achille Longo is asked to compose a movie soundtrack. De Masi is suddenly enchanted by the world of the soundtracks and he focuses himself to write film music, especially for Italo Western movies. His soundtrack of "Quanto costa morire" ("Cost of Dying") is a great classic in Cinevox Record catalogue.
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