Braen & Raskovich
Inchiesta Giudiziaria

LA RECENSIONE

Soundtrack lovers already know: in a music market governed by copyright laws that favored publishers over composers, many artists, to unleash their creativity without constraints, created pseudonyms under which they recorded works that were either distant from public taste or simply different from their trademark style.

And so, behind the names Braen and Raskovich hide two great soundtrack and score composers: Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini.

In the vocal sections (Bisca, La Mala) appears Giulia De Mutis, wife of Alessandroni and collaborator with other well-known musicians such as Nicolai and Morricone.

The album was probably aimed at the soundtrack of an unrealized broadcast or film with a Judicial Inquiry theme. The vast panorama offered by library music often leaves many questions unanswered.

The theme of the current work inevitably guides the music. The distorted funk of Cattura and the vocal jazz of Bisca somehow stand out among the other material, which is also of high quality. There is no shortage of some experimentalism à la Morricone (try putting on headphones and losing yourself in the Sensazioni abnormi...)

As often happens in Alessandroni's works, folk, funk, psychedelia, and jazz make love and intertwine inextricably. The titles of the individual tracks suggest the atmospheres: what to expect, indeed, from a Rastrellamento or a Perquisizione?

For the record, Inchiesta Giudiziaria is published by Octopus, one of the legendary Italian labels dedicated, during the '70s, to the publication of soundtracks: may God bless them!

N.B. In 2014 the album was re-released under the English title Abnormal Sensations.