Piero Piccioni - Puppet On A Chain
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Puppet On A Chain

Label Silva Screen ‎– SILCD1519
Format CD, Album, Reissue
Barcode 0738572151928
Country UK
Released 2017
Genre Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style Soundtrack, Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Easy Listening
1 Puppet On A Chain (Main Titles) 2:49
2 Drug Dealers 1:34
3 Psychedelic Mood 2:33
4 LSD Party 0:43
5 Narcotics Bureau 2:20
6 Escape 1:21
7 Night Club 1:43
8 Drugs Hypnosis 1:34
9 The Search 1:06
10 Mystery / The Discotheque 3:40
11 Troubles In The Big City 1:16
12 Chase 1:18
13 Fear 1:35
14 Love Theme 2:19
15 Big Action 1:01
16 Obsession 4:08
17 The Funeral 1:55
18 Puppet On A Chain (Finale) 1:25
Composed By, Arranged By – Piero Piccioni
Conductor – Harry Rabinowitz
Orchestra – The London Sinfonia
"A masterpiece of suspense and no-holds-barred action, Puppet on a Chain was adapted from Alistair Maclean’s 1969 novel and released in 1971. Directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring a granite-jawed Sven-Bertil Taube, the film’s signature boat chase (lasting eight minutes!) along the canals of Amsterdam was rumoured to be the inspiration for the similar sequence in Bond’s Live and Let Die.

The action is underpinned by Italian soundtrack maestro Piero Piccioni’s blistering Hammond-heavy score. Piccioni composed around 300 soundtracks over four decades, but was most prolific during the ‘60’s and ‘70’s, when he was sought out by directors including Francesco Rosi, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica and Lina Wertmuller. A talented self-taught jazz musician, Piccioni’s soundtrack to Puppet on a Chain retains effortless style, portraying a decadent 1970’s Amsterdam overrun with drugs and organised crime.

Recorded in September 1970.


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