Piero Umiliani - Il Corpo

9.0 - Italy - 1974

Probably Umiliani's best soundtrack (in the opinion of this humble reviewer). Sure, like most Umiliani soundtracks there's a bit of repetition as multiple tracks rework two or three different recurring themes. But that's no criticism: the music here is simply gorgeous. Warm swirling hammond organs, squelchy wah wahs, gurgly analog synths, and, of course, those sensuous wordless female vocals. The perfect musical analog to the exotic beauty of Il Corpo star Zeudi Araya.

The 2015 Schema reissue preserves the original sequencing as the original 1974 release, and, as far as I can tell, it also has (on the CD format) the same extra tracks included on Easy Tempo's 1999 reissue. Good job, too as the leading contender for the sexiest piece of music in history -- "Free Life (Vocal)" -- was inexplicably left off the original release (the track is so good that it is presented as the lead off track on Easy Tempo's resequenced version). Schema's cover is also the same as the original.