This was also the start of a fruitful collaboration between Frizzi as a solo composer and Lucio Fulci. "Fulci loved music and knew very well what kind of score his film needed," Frizzi says. "As usual, after reading the screenplay, we talked about our project; then it was time for demos, discussions, arrangements, and recordings. We were always in close contact." Frizzi also talks about his personal relationship with Fulci; "He was a friend, probably my first 'senior' friend. I'm grateful to Lucio; he's one of the [people] who helped me to learn how to compose my beautiful and hard work." Frizzi composed the music for Fulci's ultra violent mafia film Contraband in 1980, and then worked on the scores for the films that many consider to be of Fulci's "golden era"; The City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell, 1980) and The Beyond (aka Seven Doors of Death,1981). Frizzi's film themes aided Fulci in his dark atmospheric works, by creating scores composed of dissonant orchestral themes and eerie sounds made from the most radical synthesizers of the time.Read it all.
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