NELLA MISURA IN CUI

Back in 1979, Italian director Piero Vivarelli made NELLA MISURA IN CUI, a delicious
erotic- exotic flick about a middle-aged, leftwing filmmaker who, being also an
inveterate playboy, steals his son’s girlfriend and takes her on a holiday in the Caribbean
where, a few years earlier, he shot his breakthrough feature. In real life, Vivarelli’s
breakthrough feature was IL DIO SERPENTE (1970), a film whose sexy scenes have
glued generations of viewers to the screen (actress Nadia Cassini has a cult following
of her own) and whose superb original soundtrack marked Augusto Martelli’s rise to
fame.
Today, Four Flies Records is especially proud to present the first complete release of
Martelli’s sultry soundtrack to NELLA MISURA IN CUI, where he expanded the tropical-
voodoo sound of his earlier score to incorporate elements from disco, soul, and
funk – idioms that became popular over the nine years between Vivarelli’s two movies.
The soundtrack’s main theme, “The Joint”, will give you a perfect taste of Martelli’s lateseventies
sound: hippie lounge/beach vibes combined with a sort of flirting with the
myths of youth culture, from free love to Third World utopias, to soft drugs. The album
also features vocal and instrumental mixes of “Joining Together”, an infectious dancefloor
banger driven by a powerful rhythm section (percussion played on the upbeat,
Tullio De Piscopo doing his magic on drums, and Pino Presti providing a killer bass
line) and with airy string textures you wouldn’t expect to hear in a disco track.
A super-groovy and soulful masterpiece from one of the standard bearers of eroticexotic
film music, NELLA MISURA IN CUI is one of Four Flies’ most exciting finds
to date. You need this!
TRACKLIST:
1.The Joint 04:36
2.Mercato di Portorico 03:19
3.Joining Together 03:59
4.How Wonderful You Are (Instrumental) 04:25
5.La Seduzione (The Joint) 01:51
6.Mercato di Portorico (Alt. Version) 03:36
7.La Spiaggia di Ulisse 02:59
8.Joining Together (Instrumental) 03:21
9.Visions (Instrumental) 03:56