The last days of August and the sound of the sea are the perfect listening, but summer-inspired cinematic music can “fill” your luggage, which accompanies not only relaxation, but also memories. Among the domestic ones, we will highlight the music (award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, 1968) by Stavros Harchakos for the film “Girls in the Sun” by Vasilis Georgiadis, filmed on Andros. Amazing orchestral themes and superb songs with lyrics by Giorgos Papastephanos (registered trademark “Separation” with Maria Dimitriadis) combine exemplary psychedelic pop, folk, library, progressive à la Pink Floyd, jazz, artistic elements through melancholy lyricism.

The orchestral themes of the hard-to-find vinyl record “The Hook” by Giorgos Hadjinassios for the internationally acclaimed adventure thriller of the same name, Erricos Andreou (1976) are inspired by beautiful melodies, fiery funk rhythms, captivating atmosphere, moisture of summer, erotica, mystery, sea breeze. Synthesizers, piano, guitars, bass, melismatic vocals – raw material and a composer at his peak.

Turning to international waters, we turn our attention to Michel Legrand’s soundtrack to Jacques Deray’s thriller The Pool (1968) with Alain Delon, Romy Snyder and Jane Birkin. French sophistication, an ethereal pop sensibility and jazz underpinnings underpin the suspenseful atmosphere and leave a signature mark on scenes next to the wet elements and on Saint Tropez nights. Thanks to the dreamy violinist Stéphane Grappelli lyrically creating the atmosphere. In René Clément’s great 1960 thriller Plein Soleil, with Alain Delon’s tanned body and Marie Laforet’s intoxicating eyes stealing the spotlight, Nino Rota creates charming, evocative, dramatic music while maintaining its playful tone and insightful existential commentary, boldly and eccentrically emphasizing the Mediterranean. hedonistic, formidable, dark, despite the abundance of light, the nature of the film.

In René Clément’s 1960 thriller Plein Soleil, Nino Rota creates charming, evocative, dramatic music while maintaining his playful tone.

Italian Piero Piccioni in the seductive soundtrack to Lina Wertmüller’s film “Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto” (“The Lady and the Sailor”) in 1974 with the inimitable Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, increases in motion, elegant, romantic, erotic music. In the blue sea of ​​August, on the white sand, in the “big nowhere” comic adventure, social satire, turning into a heartbreaking, bitter melodrama at the end, jazz, ballads, bossa nova lazily “caress” the exoticism of the image, mobilizing unprecedented emotions.

The Polish film Knife in the Water (1961) by Polish Roman Polanski, shot on koto, was accompanied by the magnificent music of his compatriot Krzysztof Komeda, harmoniously intertwined with black and white, exposed to voracious sunlight and the corrosive salt sea. image to comment on a tense story of competition and sexual arousal. Magnificent jazz and bold improvisational breakthroughs mobilize the forces of incredible emotional intensity and scratch the ugly wounds of sharp cinematography.

A pleasant surprise was the first world re-release in 2022 of the rare soundtrack “Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor” by the charismatic Brazilian Hareton Salvanini for the daring, dark, romantic film (1981) by the Pole Zygmunt Sulistrowski. In exotic summer landscapes where the sea washes over the naked bodies of the protagonists, the music and songs dramatically outperform the sexy low-budget movie soundtrack. Erotic melodies, dynamic rhythms, an explosive mixture of psychedelic moments, jazz flirting and bossa nova with an everlasting thermometer.

The re-release in 2019 of the vinyl “Around the World” by composer, conductor, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Alessandro Alessandroni’s orchestra, first released in 1973, is an unrivaled musical offering. Orchestral music outlines enchanting images, like a girl in the sea, posing in front of the lens, and “gives birth” to travel, sensations and emotions. With ingredients from his great film scores (over 40 soundtracks) and collaborations with his childhood friend Morricone (responsible for the signature whistle in spaghetti westerns). Nostalgic, melancholic melodies, dazzling rhythms, carefree atmosphere, bossa nova, referring to Brazilian exoticism. Twelve tracks with eloquent titles: “Ocean”, “Beach Party”, “Rolling Moon”, “Summer Breeze”, “A Day in the Sun”, “Love on the Sand”, “Fishing” will take off the riotous sound.

But also for those who do not go on vacation and prefer urban landscapes, the brilliant black-and-white, almost silent comedy Le Rest of Monsieur Hulot (1953) by Jacques Tati, where his lean, clumsy figure through the incredible choreographic visual jokes go beyond frames of humorous adventures.