Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time In The West (1969)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Ennio Morricone Title Once Upon A Time In The West Length 38:28 Discs: 1 Tracks: 13 Format HQ 192+ kbps Packaging Jewel Case Label RCA Cat. Number 4736-2-R Style Film Score Rating N/A Recorded 1969

Musicians	Credits
Ennio Moricone conductor Franco DeGemini harmonica Alex Alessandroni whistle Edda vocals Modern Singers vocals	Producer Chick Crumpacker Engineer Dick Baxter

Track list

01 Once Upon A Time In The West 03:45 02 As A Judgement 03:08 03 Farewell To Cheyenne 02:40 04 The Transgression 04:42 05 The First Tavern 01:41 06 The Second Tavern 01:34 07 Man With A Harmonica 03:31 08 A Dimly Lit Room 05:09 09 Bad Orchestra 02:26 10 The Man 01:05 11 Jill's America 02:50 12 Death Rattle 01:46 13 Finale 04:11

Notes

AMG Review by Stephen Cook (4): Arguably a milestone for both director Sergio Leone and his musical cohort Ennio Morricone. After deconstructing the classic American western by way of The Good, the Bad & the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, Leone distilled his intentions with 1968's Once Upon a Time in the West. For his part, Morricone framed Leone's meditative camerawork and mythic narrative with a mix of hauntingly spacious pieces and reconfigured snatches of old-timey tunes. Just within the stretch of the first four pieces here, Morricone evokes the endless expanse of the West with a Copland-esque aria (the main title theme), weaves some twisted grit into the showdown theme with loads of guitar fuzz ("As a Judgment"), ingeniously combines whistling and a clippity-clop rhythm for a respite piece ("Farewell to Cheyenne"), and conjures the surreal end of the cowboy mythos via a wonderfully disjointed serial-style number ("The Transgression"). And whether sounding upbeat or stark, Morricone informs it all with the dry and windswept vacancy of the West. Beautiful and stunning.