Aquarium Sounds: A Gem Has Been Unearthed.

The 1979 Italian TV series soundtrack by Filippo Trecca finally gets the reissue it deserved.

In one of my YouTube rabbit-hole research sessions, I stumbled upon the opening credits for an Italian TV thriller series from 1979, titled Così Per Gioco. Intrigued by the preview frame (which was the title of the show beautifully sketched by hand), I hit play. It opened with a soundscape of synthesized wind and a metronome-like sound that lured me into the sequence of images and, most importantly, into the theme track. I stood motionless, in awe at the graphics and at the music that matched them to perfection. 

The track was called “Pulsazioni” and it was composed by Italian maestro, Filippo Trecca. In an email exchange with him, about this specific song he says that the track is “like Italian poor cuisine dish (gricia or carbonara) made with few ingredients: a piano, a kind of metronome that marks the tempo and a basis of piano rhythm, somewhat characteristic of the my creations of that time - I think the main melody was played a "moog". The result of the dish? It's cheap and it's g…