New Spanish CDs “Extraña forma de vida”, “Hannie Caulder”, “Requiem per un Gringo”

 

“Extraña forma de vida”

(Strange Way of Life)

(2023)

 

Composer: Alberto Iglesias

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal

 

Country: Spain

Label: Quartet Records

#QR524

Tracks: 6

Limited edition 500 copies

Total listening time: 1827

Extras: ?

Available: May 26, 2023

 

Track list:

Arrebato (2:02)

El despertar (1:22)

Las segundas intenciones (4:40)

En una bodega mejicana (0:47)

El hijo asesino (4:53)

Los caballos retozan al anochecer (4:37)

 

Alberto Iglesias has composed a memorable, nostalgic and crepuscular symphonic score for orchestra and male choir—music that shows the fatalistic nature of the story and its impossible love.

Although it’s a short piece—barely 20 minutes long—this score is of such quality and importance that we believe it should be digitally released, in a strictly limited CD edition of 500 units.

Hannie Caulder

1971

 

Composer: Ken Thorne

Director: Burt Kennedy

Starring: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin

 

Country: Spain

Label: Quartet Records

#QR515

Tracks: 29

Limited edition 1000 copies

Total listening time: 40:44

Extras: ?

Available: May 26, 2023

 

Track list:

1. Main Title / Bank Raid (3:42)

2. Chase From Bank (1:31)

3. Caulder Killed / Rape Of Hannie (1:46)

4. Hannie Leaves (2:34)

5. Hannie Takes Gun (1:22)

6. Thomas Rejects Hannie (1:37)

7. Mexican Chase (0:38)

8. Riding To Town (1:18)

9. Hannie Takes Bath (0:51)

10. Riding To Mexico (2:41)

11. Thomas And Bailey Talk (1:32)

12. Gun Montage (1:50)

13. Preacher Visits (1:32)

14. Beach Scene (2:24)

15. Mexican Raid (2:20)

16. Hannie Shoots Bandit (1:01)

17. Quitting Ranch (1:51)

18. Brothers Into Town (1:10)

19. Shotting Thomas (1:16)

20. Death Of Thomas (2:06)

21. Killing Of Frank / Killing Of Rufus / Old Prison / Killing Of Emmett (2:17)

22. Finale (1:16)

23. Life’s Never Peaceful (2:07)

Bonus Tracks

24. Saloon Band (2:17)

25. Rape Of Hannie (Alternate) (1:17)

26. Finale And End Title (Orchestral Version) (2:07)

27. Hannie Takes Bath (Alternate) (0:50)

28. Mexican Raid (Alternate) (2:21)

29. Finale And End Title (Film Version) (2:10)

 

An intended LP mock-up was previously released on an unauthorized promotional mono CD. This premiere CD includes the complete score—almost entirely in expansive stereo—restored and mastered by Chris Malone from pristine master tapes vaulted at Paramount. The lavishly illustrated 12-page liner notes by Gergely Hubai discuss the film and the score with a cue-by-cue breakdown, explaining every step of the rebuilding process.

Requiem per un Gringo

(1968)

 

Composer: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

Directors: Eugenio Martin, José Luis Merino

Starring: Lang Jeffries, Fernando Sancho, Femi Benussi

 

Country: Spain

Label: Quartet Records

#QR521

Tracks: 32

Limited edition 300 copies

Total listening time: 61:29

Extras: ?

Available: May 26, 2023

 

Track list:

The Original Album

1. Sandstorm (2:18)

2. Twilight (2:15)

3. The moon and you (1:51)

4. Trouble in Store (0:59)

5. Fear and Pleasure (1:47)

6. Feather weight heart (1:40)

7. Pistols Galore (1:55)

8. Don’t look now (1:31)

9. Moody mountain (1:01)

10. Take that (1:38)

11. Far from now (0:38)

12. Single handed (1:01)

13. The Price of a Gun (1:00)

14. Heartbeat (1:47)

15. Cloudy Prairy (1:39)

16. Follow me (1:46)

17. Thoughtless Greenery (1:38)

18. Misty tree (2:56)

Bonus tracks

19. Requiem per un gringo (Nocturne) (2:57)

20. Requiem per un gringo (Waiting) (1:49)

21. follow me (Film version) (1:01)

22. Requiem per un gringo (Cavalcade) (1:48)

23. Requiem per un gringo (Cavalcade #2) (1:06)

24. Requiem per un gringo (Ambush) (1:32)

25. Requiem per un gringo (Fear in the night) (2:36)

26. Requiem per un gringo (Guitar cantina) (3:01)

27. Requiem per un gringo (Western story) (1:33)

28. Requiem per un gringo (Bandidos) (1:55)

29. Requiem per un gringo (Nostalgic moment) (1:58)

30. Requiem per un gringo (Before the attack) (2:13)

31. Requiem per un gringo (Gringo) (2:29)

32. Requiem per un gringo (Suite in stereo) (4:11)

 

A selection of 18 tracks was issued on LP by Cinevox when the film came out, and the same program (plus an 11-minute suite with unreleased cues and takes) was reissued in a Lavagnino western compilation on Saimel in 2006. This new CD, produced by Claudio Fuiano and mastered by Chris Malone from first-generation master tapes courtesy of Cinevox, features the original program augmented with previously unreleased cues and a bonus suite of surviving stereo cues. The lavishly illustrated 12-page liner notes by Gergely Hubai discuss the film and the score.