Fiorenzo Carpi: Le avventure di Pinocchio (CAM, 1972)

While the passion for dusty fanfares, village two-steps and barrel organs surely connects "Le avventure di Pinocchio" to the style of Nino Rota and Nicola Piovani, the music here sounds more homely, pure and stripped-down. Most of the eighteen tracks reduce the instruments to the bare necessity, getting to a rural and sprightly style which surprisingly reminds of Yann Tiersen's work for "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain".
The themes are airy, elegant and memorable. The slow carillon in "Fata turchina", the coupled piano-harpsicord motif of "Birichinata" or the magic, slightly psychedelic mood of "Trasformazione di Pinocchio e Lucignolo", the askance tango "Il Gatto e la Volpe": just a few of the excellent episodes giving the LP its old-fashioned countryside charm.

Fiorenzo Carpi was a Milanese composer, active since the late Fourties in the field of theater music and - later - soundtrack music. "Le avventure di Pinocchio" is a selection from his score for the celebrated 1971 TV serial by Luigi Comencini.


Tracklist:

1. Pinocchio: viaggio in groppa al tonno
2. Geppetto: in allegria
3. In cerca di cibo
4. Fata Turchina
5. Pinocchio: birichinata
6. Geppetto: con malinconia
7. Trasformazione di Pinocchio e Lucignolo
8. Il Gatto e la Volpe
9. Pinocchio: la tempesta
10. Geppetto
11. Pinocchio: nascita di un burattino
12. Fata Turchina: sonatina
13. In cerca di cibo
14. Geppetto: il litigio
15. Geppetto: sogni nell'Orto dei Miracoli
16. Lucignolo
17. In cerca di cibo: nel paese delle api industriose
18. Geppetto: partenza per le lontane Americhe

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