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Angelo Michajlov : "Saxana" -soundtrack-
the girl on a broomstick -soundtrack- -LP/CD- (CZ,re.2010)***°
With a real love for music I think sooner or later the eye wants to be fed too. That's how the LP size was much more suitable (than the CD or the MP3) to feed that desire. With a soundtrack there's a lot more to feed the desire itself. A movie like Saxana recalls a whole past period through its music, its theme and its artwork. With rather glamorous, at times sexy or elsewhere children-TV-story-like arrangements of some brass, drums, late 60s sound effects, piano and organ and echoing electric guitars and lots of playful at times jazzy tunes this is pure entertainment. Saxana is about a red haired witch, (it reminds me a bit of an adult version of Pipi Langstrumpf) and is a comic-book inspired movie made during the communist regime in Chechoslovakia as it was known then. Comics, illustrations and comic movies and were already blooming in creativity as a fantasy expression of freedom, and this movie was coming forth from this situation. The film theme of “Saxana” is a pop-sensitive happy song. Most of the themes are instrumentals. One of the tracks is with sitar and reminds us everything is composed with an aspect of the exotic for the sake of entertainment. To complete the pleasure this release has a booklet with lots of background information, pictures and photographs.
