Ennio Morricone Experience
@ The Famous Spiegeltent
10:30pm, Wed 27 Feb 2002
Score: 9
Short Review: A Fistful Of Quite Good
This was brilliant. Four totally straight guys came out and smoothly produced an hour of classic spaghetti western music, dialog, and a few laughs as well.
If you’re like me, you’ve never sat through an entire spaghetti western in your life. But you’d be surprised how familiar all the tunes the Experience played are – sure, everyone knows “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly”, but other pieces sparked the memory also.
On top of backing beats and kit-triggered samples is laid a wonderful mesh of percussion, double bass, hoarse grunts, and a myriad of other, more obscure instruments, which all fit into the mix in a manner which recreates the feel of a badly over-dubbed, gritty movie experience. This effect is enhanced by the breaks between songs being perforated with appropriately stilted, scripted dialog – “Water… parched… AQUA!!”
This was a staggeringly entertaining bit of work. Great music, great humour… one hour very well spent.