LP, 140-gram black vinyl, limited edition of 300. Giovanni Fusco is remembered first as Michelangelo Antonioni's composer of choice, the author of the scores for L'Avventura, L'Eclisse and Il deserto rosso, and of Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour. Il Sesso degli Angeli comes from the very end of that career; Fusco died in May 1968, only months after the film's release, which makes this one of his final statements for the screen.

Liberatore's debut feature, a drama of desire and emotional alienation set aboard a yacht on the Adriatic, drew on the changing moral climate of late-1960s Italy. To it Fusco brought the same refined sensibility he gave Antonioni, but turned toward a different palette: delicate orchestral textures sit beside sophisticated lounge writing, beat rhythm, subtle harmony and understated melody, with a bombastic main theme that has stayed with listeners for decades. The album also carries the songs performed by The Sorrows and Roberta Piazzi, the voices of I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni and arrangements by Gianfranco Reverberi.

A fascinating entry near the close of a distinguished filmography, and a chance to hear Fusco express psychological depth through music in a register far from the Antonioni films most people know him by. Restored and mastered by Chris Malone from the original elements and pressed on 140-gram black vinyl by Quartet Records. On vinyl for the first time, in full stereo, more than half a century on! Restored and mastered by Chris Malone from the original elements.