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Posted: Jan. 07 2012, 11:46

from Ugo's fellow countryman Ennio Morricone: Chi Mai (means Who Ever, although it looks Asian to me :))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHPlqwxZA8

Only learnt it last week, but this is the very first album that I bought with my own money when I was a kid (a cassette, soundtrack from Le Professionnel). It's famous thanks to a memorable dog food commercial in France, and for being used in the final scene of a movie called Le Professionel, but it was actually composed for an Italian movie earlier than that and then reused all over the places.

I tried to simulate a little bit the feeling of the original by using echo on the piano and violins controlled with a volume pedal. It's really fun to play and give me the chills. :)
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Posted: Jan. 07 2012, 14:41

That is so moving.

Thank you.  :)


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Posted: Jan. 07 2012, 18:55

Beautiful melody and beautiful playing. Congrats, you're gifted. :cool: By the way, Italians pronounce that "Chi" as "kee". It doesn't sound Asian to me. :D

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Posted: Jan. 08 2012, 13:49

Thank you so much. Your comments are moving too. :) Best thing I've done in years recording myself. Thanks.

I'm trying to imagine Morricone saying "nessun problema, go ahead and use it for dog food ads". Any insight on how this happened, Ugo? Did you know every single French citizen knows it because of a memorable ad for dog food, not a movie or a Morricone greatest hits compilation? He did it for the money? He got tricked? He thought ads can be a vehicle for art?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAksnZ4xNo

Beautiful final scene of Le Professionel (but again French knows it because of the ad, not this):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8pjN5Q_cM

Back to the ad, it's incredibly efficient, part of the French pop culture. Watching my right hand even reminds me of the stupid dog running. It's there implanted deep in our brain.
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Posted: Jan. 08 2012, 14:44

:O Really nice playing !!!

Merci Olivier tu me ramenes loin en arriere ! Ahhh Pauvre Bebel .....  !!!
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Posted: Jan. 08 2012, 16:25

@ Olivier: as far as I know, Morricone doesn't object to any use of his film music, as long as they pay him - and he often asks HUGE sums of money to license his pieces. But he fundamentally doesn't care about how pieces he wrote for the movies are used. He often said that he considers all of the music he wrote for the cinema, and the music he still writes for the cinema, as "disposable music" - it does what it has to do once, then he doesn't care any longer about it. He cares much, much more for his classical compositions. So I wouldn't say that he did it "for the money": he did it because he's not interested any longer in that old composition of his (although it is a classic, like most things of his), or in what happens to it.

Anyway, it's true that a piece can get engrained in your memory because of its use in an ad. Just to mention one example, when I hear "Breathe" by Midge Ure I don't think about Ireland. I think about watches. :D :laugh:


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Posted: Jan. 08 2012, 16:55

fabulous playing, and well recorded. I love this piece of music and have been playing it for years, never doing it justice.

Thanks for sharing, Olivier.

Cheers,
Terry.


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Posted: Jan. 09 2012, 07:31

Nicely played. Thanks.

Oddly enough this is the second Morricone cover I've heard today. The first was on the Hawkwind forum, and the link is here:

http://hawkwindforum.freeforums.org/index.p....6bc9e2e

A very different piece. I know very little about Morricone (a lot more after reading this topic). I must say I thought he was a bad choice for Hayley Westenra's most recent album, though. But no-one ever seems to learn that her voice is better with small instrumental forces than large ones (Music of the Spheres being an odd exception to that one, but the scoring is the key to that).


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