“Maddalena” is a Jugoslavian-Italian co-production directed in 1971 by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and starring Lisa Gastoni, Frank Wolff, Ivo Garrani, Paolo Gozlino and Lucia Alberti. The score by Ennio Morricone is one of the main protagonists of this motion picture, featuring the hit song “Chi mai” sung in Italian by Lisa Gastoni. Morricone has written a powerful lounge/religious-style soundtrack with psychedelic and erotic elements given by the amazing performance of Edda Dell’Orso and choir I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni that transport the listeners in an universe of passion and mystery, love and death, between sacred and profane.

The original 1971 LP is one of the Morricone’s rarest albums, now with new graphic design, newly mastered sound from the original analogic stereo tapes, also including the theme song as bonus track that in those days was issued only a 45rpm single.