THE LODGER

Ensemble Mobile meets Alfred Hitchcock

  Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece 
with live soundtrack performed by a jazz orchestra

Ensemble Mobile  
conducted by Roger Rota 

Music for the orchestra by Corrado Guarino
Music for tape by Maurizio Zappatini

THE LODGER, the first A.Hitchcock's mute feature film, is not very well known, but has great artistic value and starts a film imaginary destined to form the taste of spectators' generations. The music does not simply comment on the actions, favouring atmospheres and emotions moved by the images, but on the contrary it presents alienation effects (with some moments of disenchanted irony). They underline the composer's external point of view, similar to the spectators', which finds in the film ways of recitations and models of communication far from the modern ones. The images are followed up and interpreted by Maurizio Zappatini's and Corrado Guarino's music, entrusting the most dramatic parts to the electronic sounds of the tape (M. Zappatini) and the narrative moments to the live orchestra (C.Guarino).
THE ORCHESTRA is not really a big band and it adopts chamber timbric solutions which create a variety of situations adding woodwinds (clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon) and reducing saxes and brasses.
The orchestral writing also overworks the musicians' improvisations.

Ensemble Mobile

Gianluigi Trovesi: alto sax, clarinets
 Guido Bombardieri: alto sax, clarinets
 Maurizio Moraschini: alto sax, clarinets
Tino Tracanna: soprano and tenor sax
Alberto Nacci: tenor sax
Ugo Gelmi: bari sax, bassoon
Sergio Orlandi: trumpet
Umberto Marcandalli: trumpet
Oscar Gelmi: french horn
Mauro Parodi: trombone
Claudio Barbieri: trombone
Silvia Infascelli: voice
Fabrizio Garofoli: piano
Adelio Leoni: guitar
Sandro Massazza: double-bass
Vittorio Marinoni: drums
Robi Marchesi: percussion