From the Digitmovies site (www.digitmovies.com)

"For celebrating the thirty CD issue, Digitmovies is proud to releae a special edition double CD set featuring the complete soundtrack in full stereo composed and conducted by Maestro Bruno Nicolai for the 1969 European Sex exploitation cult movie directed by Jess Franco ìEugenie – De Sade’70”. This motion picture had various titles during its distribution time like La Isla de la muerte”,ìEugenie... the Story of Her Journey Into Perversion” ì Les Inassouvies”, ìDie Jung frau und die Peitsche”, ìPhilosophy in the Boudoir”, ìDie Wildkatze” and the movies released with two differently edited versions.This motion picture, that got the best digital presentation through the definitive 2002 uncut version DVD produced by Bill Lustig and his Blue Underground, is a psyhedelic representation of Sado Masochistic world of Marquis De Sade placed in an exotic island circa 1969 starring the gorgeous svedish acctress Marie Liljedhal as Eugenie, the cute young girl who is initiated into a world of pleasure and pain, Maria Rohm (of Marquis De Sade’s ìJustine” fame),Jack Taylor (of ì Succubus” fame) and the great Christopher Lee as sadist Dolmance. Jess Franco is undoubtfully a true cult director who shooted this motion picture in Exotic locations where this story is placed.

Originally in year 1969 an album on Gemelli label with 14 selections was issued (some in mono sound,some in stereo sound). For this CD release we were able to listen to the many master tapes we did found in the Edipan archives.When did discovered so many tapes we could suddenly realize the Bruno Nicolai had written and recorded for this movie a lot of music. So we started to listen to carefully the tapes, kept for until today in terrific conditions and with a great stereo sound: first we found all the tracks used for the original album, but later we could very happily discover on the original sessions elements that some of them were shorter versions than those actual ones featured here, so for the first time...we can listen to the uncut takes of some them. So we could assemble the entire 108 minutes long score and alternate versions on a two discs set."

I absolutely cannot wait for this!! Bravo once again, Digitmovies!!

I have the original vinyl release (as De Sade 70). There was a bootleg CD issued too some time ago - this sounds great though!

And that's not all..... Last month, Tim Lucas wrote on Latarnia Forum that Digitmovies has also found a couple of reels of Nicolai music from 99 WOMEN.

http://p210.ezboard.com/fthelatarniaforums...opicID=38.topic

This can be an even more important news, since 99 WOMEN's soundtrack was NEVER released on vynil or CD and it's among Nicolai's best.

I had no idea Nicolai did the score for 99 WOMEN, and my curiosity is especially piqued now that it comes so highly recommended!

Someone made me a CD-R dub of their DE SADE '70 vinyl release on Gemelli, so the quality unfortunately wasn't too great, but the music is really brilliant, particularly the main theme.

I'd love to see Digitmovies release Nicolai's score for EUGENIE DE SADE as well ...

If it's a further incentive for anyone to pick this up, I wrote the liner notes. If that's more of a deterrent where you're concerned, forget I mentioned it! ;)

I wrote mostly about my love for the original recordings -- I have the original Gemelli vinyl -- and was not able to hear the additional discoveries prior to writing, so I'm as eager to hear this new two-disc set as the rest of you.

Yes, but you will find the main theme in another Franco film.... You will see and listen it very soon.... :rolleyes:

The Nicolai scores for the Franco films not produced by H. A. Towers are even more beautiful, because - like the films - they are more free and experimental. In particular, I refer to NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT and A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD. These two soundtracks were never released.

Then, there is SEX CHARADE. Since the film seems to be lost, it would be important to know at least its score by Bruno Nicolai.

Wasn't a Sex Charade DVD announced from a UK or US company?

It was announced from Media Blasters, but it seems it was deleted. Any info about this Jess/Soledad film would be appreciated.

I suspect the NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT music came from the EUGENIE sessions; some or all of these cues may appear on the EUGENIE soundtrack forthcoming from Digitmovies.

The old EUGENIE vynil does in fact include a cue used in NIGHTMARES, as well as some "tropical" cues used in ROBINSON.

The two 99 WOMEN reels could include cues used in EUGENIE DE SADE, SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY and VENUS IN FURS.

Both these CDs can reveal something interesting about the genesis of these Franco films.

Well Tim, since your notes on the "Vampyros lesbos: sexadelic dance party" compilation were great (very surreal, in line with the films), this is only another good reason to check this gem out!

lars

That's funny.....The Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack release was (& remains) a very important moment in my life & I must have read the liner notes a gazillion times but somehow missed the fact that Tim wrote them! I'll have to go back & read them. In the mean time...The Eugenie CD will be another invaluable addition to my world.

Haha! Well, there are actually two liner notes in the sleve on by Tim and one by a Mr Peter Blumenstock (whoever that is? anyone have a clue?).

Yes, it was the same for me! Many years ago that album opened my eyes to the wonderfull world of euro-cult, sleeze and explotation-films in general, and it started my long-time facsination for Soledad (probaly shared with everyone here I guess...).

lars

Thanks for your comments on my liner notes.

Peter Blumenstock founded Lucertola Media, which released a number of imported limited edition Euro soundtracks in the 1990s, including THREE FILMS BY JESS FRANCO (a longer CD from which VAMPYROS LESBOS SEXADELIC DANCE PARTY was distilled), THE FILMS OF JEAN ROLLIN and SOLAMENTE NERO. Peter then hooked up with Crippled Dick Hot Wax and supervised a number of their key releases, including VAMPYROS LESBOS, the SCHULMADCHEN-REPORT disc and the BEAT AT CINECITTA series. He got tired of all the work it took to compile these discs, for so little financial return, and went into another line of work. He was also the first guy I knew who got into DVD and he was the main guy behind the initial DVD release of RABID DOGS. I spoke with him some months ago, and he sounds very happy.

Thanks for the info. Seems like one owes Mr Blumenstock alot then, beeing a happy ower of some of these great records. Especially the BEAT AT CINECITTA volumes. They are so nicely put together, both when it comes to the music and the slevedesign. Too bad he didn't continue working on such releases.

Does anyone know where you can get the mentioned "FILMS OF JEAN ROLLIN"-soundtrack? Is it out of print?

lars

I too was set off on my adoration of eurocult soundtracks as a result of picking up the SEXADELIC DANCE PARTY CD, and shortly thereafter the BEAT AT CINECITTA comps. Tim's liner notes have been an invaluable part of that experience and I'm really looking forward to seeing what he has to say about the EUGENIE music. :)

Peter would have loved to continue working on the Eurocult soundtrack releases, but I think he was 1) a bit young to want to tie himself down to a desk job, and 2) it simply didn't reimburse his time or energies and, being a practical man, he chose to pursue a more lucrative line of work. He told me stories about some of the hoops he had to jump through, just to get the Jerry van Rooyen soundtrack CD on the market; van Rooyen himself was easy to work with, but Pier Cammeneci, the producer of SUCCUBUS (who owns the music composed for that film), was difficult, so the project necessitated a lot of air travel and in-person cajoling. And then the CD turned out to be not as big a seller as some of the others. Peter came to visit me once here in Cincinnati and I remember his visit as one long and pleasant blur of conversation and red wine. He also brought some rare tapes of movies without English subtitles and provided a running translation of the dialogue. I have especially fond memories of seeing Giancarlo Soldi's NERO., which I thought was a really excellent picture. Why this Claudio Argento production has never had a DVD release, I don't know, but it deserves to be resurrected.

This CD is now on sale! I just bought a copy on eBay from the Digitmovies store there:

http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View...erid=lukesilver

Can't wait to get my mitts on it!