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Gato Barbieri

Title: Last Tango in Paris (OST)

Label: Varese Sarabande

Cat No:VSD6570
Format:CD

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Penetrate the moody, sensual world of LAST TANGO IN PARIS, and prepare yourself for "the most controversial film of its era" (Leonard Maltin). Nominated for two Academy Awards - Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci) and Best Actor (Marlon Brando) - and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after, this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation...and "altered the face of an art forma" (Pauline Kael).

He (Brando) is a 45-year old American living in Paris, haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is a 20-year-old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other, these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark, tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop, these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heights - and depths - beyond anything they could ever have imagined.

Steeped in controversy upon its release in 1973, director Bernardo Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS has since been called everything from nonutilitarian pornography to a cinematic masterpiece. Two key elements that Bertolucci utilized to breathe life into Tango's nihilistic themes and the dark, obsessive relationship at its core were Marlon Brando's harrowing, largely improvised performance and the erotically charged jazz score of self-taught Argentine sax virtuoso Gato Barbieri. While the musician's main theme has become a much-covered jazz standard, it's but a tantalizingly sexy sample of the cross-cultural stylings at work in this masterful score. While Barbieri rerecorded the core of his Tango music in lush, fleshier arrangements for the soundtrack album's initial release, this expanded edition (nearly twice the length of the original) augments those tracks with a compelling half-hour suite of cues culled directly from the film's scoring sessions. By turns stark and sentimental, erotic and experimental, these cues form a revelatory new "second movement" to Barbieri's hauntingly familiar score.

Track Listing for Last Tango in Paris (OST)
1. Last Tango In Paris — Tango (3:22)
2. Jeanne (2:33)
3. Girl In Black — Tango (Para Mi Negra) (2:08)
4. Last Tango In Paris — Ballad (3:42)
5. Fake Ophelia (2:56)
6. Picture In The Rain (1:51)
7. Return — Tango (La Vuelta) (3:03)
8. It’s Over (3:14)
9. Goodbye (Un Largo Adios) (2:31)
10. Why Did She Choose You? (3:00)
11. Last Tango In Paris — Jazz (5:43)

Bonus tracks: 12. – 40. The Last Tango In Paris Suite (27:33)

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