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After decades of being considered a lost artifact, the original soundtrack for the iconic 1975 giallo film, Nude per l'assassino (Strip Nude for Your Killer), has been found. Four Flies' LP version (released on 17 October 2025) marked its first-ever official release, meticulously remastered from the original 8-track tapes. Due to high demand, Four Flies is now dropping this gem also on CD. Cased in a beautiful 6-panel digipak with artwork from Eric Adrien Lee, this is the complete version featuring all 22 tracks from the soundtrack.
Nude per l'assassino (also known as Strip Nude for Your Killer) landed in Italian cinemas on 26 August 1975. It was the sexiest, sleaziest, and most unhinged giallo film of the decade.
Now, exactly half a century after that explosion of eroticism, blood, and pop delirium, the original soundtrack is finally available for the first time ever as a standalone release.
The score, composed by Berto Pisano and Elsio Mancuso (the latter credited in the work's registration with Italian PRO SIAE, but unacknowledged in the film's titles), is an intoxicating and lethal brew: jazz-funk grooves, highly charged lounge atmospheres, chilling dodecaphonic suspense, and sweeping orchestral themes featuring strings, flugelhorn, and the incredible trumpet of Oscar Valdambrini. All of it crowned by Edda Dell'Orso's magnetic, otherworldly voice at one of her career's absolute peaks, balancing sensual ecstasy with the breathy whispers you'd imagine in a red-light photonovel.
Believed gone and vanished forever, this soundtrack has obsessed collectors and fans of Italian film scores for decades. And yet, there it was, forgotten in a dusty cellar. It may sound like an urban legend, but it's true.
So, we can finally listen to a proper, stand-alone, official edition of one of the most beautiful soundtracks from the '70s, a true manifesto of the Italian erotic sound, but also a testament to to the skill with which Italians could lift American funk and imbue it with a unique, visionary spin that was entirely their own.
Nude per l'assassino is a cornerstone of Italian genre cinema: lurid, brazen, and utterly iconic, with a sexy-panther Edwige Fenech sporting a haircut that could scar your adolescence, and and the unforgettable image of a killer in full-face helmet and motorcycle suit.
This soundtrack is the very soul of that film, hidden for far too long, now gloriously brought into the light. A forbidden dream made real.
- FOUR FLIES RECORDS
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