The soundtrack to the film Deep Red

Deep Red

Profondo Rosso is a 1975 giallo film directed and written by Dario Argento and co-written by Bernardino Zapponi. It was released on March 7, 1975 in Italy and June 11, 1976 in the United States. The film's score was composed and performed by Goblin...

was composed and performed by the Italian

Italy

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 band Goblin

Goblin (band)

Goblin are an Italian progressive rock band known for their soundtracks for Dario Argento films ....

; jazz

Jazz

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 pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet...

 collaborated to the film's score by composing, orchestrating and conducting the orchestral-based and jazz-based sections of it. In the film's original theatrical release, Gaslini was given full composer credit for the entire score, while Goblin were wrongly credited only as performers [i.e. "Music by Giorgio Gaslini, performed by Goblin"]. This was corrected in subsequent home video

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 releases.

Original album release (1975)

1. "Profondo Rosso" - 4:56
2. "Death Dies" - 4:42
3. "Mad Puppet" - 5:50
4. "Wild Session" - 4:59
5. "Deep Shadows" - 5:46
6. "School at Night" - 2:05
7. "Gianna" - 1:52

Tracks 1-4 are composed and performed by Goblin (Simonetti, Morante, Pignatelli, Martino); tracks 5-7 are composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini.

Collector's Edition CD re-release (2000)

In 2000, the complete film soundtrack was re-released on CD by Cinevox, under the supervision of Claudio Simonetti. This release includes all the music featured in the film, as well as a remix of the main theme and two sound effects tracks from the film itself. The tracklist for this CD is as follows.

1. "Mad Puppet's Laughs - Opening intro (Original Sound Effect - Bonus track)" - 0:16
2. "Profondo Rosso (Album version)" - 3:45
3. "School at Night (Lullaby - Music Box version)" - 2:48
4. "Death Dies" (Album version)" - 4:38
5. "School at Night" - 0:52
6. "School at Night (Lullaby - Child version)" - 2:15
7. "Mad Puppet" - 6:30
8. "School at Night" - 2:30
9. "School at Night (Lullaby - Instrumental version)” - 2:15
10. "Death Dies (Film version – Part 1)” - 2:40
11. ”Profondo Rosso” – 1:00
12. ”Gianna (Alternate version)” - 2:11
13. ”Profondo Rosso” – 0:38
14. ”School at night” (Lullaby – Celesta version)” - 2:30
15. ”Death Dies” (Film version – Part 2)” - 2:45
16. ”Profondo Rosso” – 0:35
17. ”Wild Session” – 5:04
18. ”Profondo Rosso” – 0:48
19. ”Deep Shadows (Film version – Part 1)” - 1:57
20. ”Deep Shadows (Film version – Part 2)” - 1:51
21. ”Deep Shadows (Film version – Part 3)” - 0:35
22. ”Death Dies (Film version – Part 3)” - 2:23
23. ”Gianna (Album version)” - 1:47
24. ”School at Night (Lullaby – Echo version)”- 2:27
25. ”Deep Shadows (Album version)” - 5:45
26. ”School at Night (Album version)”- 2:05
27. ”Profondo Rosso” (Remix – Bonus track)” - 5:10
28. ”Profondo Rosso (Original Sound Effect – Bonus track)” - 3:58

Tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26 on this release are composed, orchestrated and conducted by Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet...

; all other tracks are composed and performed by Goblin (Simonetti, Morante, Pignatelli, Martino), conducted by Giorgio Gaslini on track 7. All the tracks marked as “Album version” in the CD tracklist are identical to the tracks on the original album, except for the main theme “Profondo Rosso”, the original album version of which is a montage of several music excerpts from the film. In the liner notes of the CD release, Claudio Simonetti

Claudio Simonetti

Claudio Simonetti is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s.- Biography :...

 states that the original album includes heavily edited versions of the pieces as originally recorded, because of time constraints (at the time, fully instrumental soundtrack albums issued by smaller labels could have a maximum duration of 25/30 minutes); therefore the album does not represent his or the band's intentions for the presentation of the soundtrack, while the CD does.

Personnel

• Walter Martino: drums, percussion
• Massimo Morante
  Massimo Morante
  Massimo Morante is an Italian musician. He was the guitar player for the Italian progressive rock band Goblin. Goblin provided soundtracks for several horror films, including Dario Argento's Deep Red and Suspiria , and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead .-External links:...
  
  : Electric guitars, Acoustic guitars, bouzouki
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  , vocals
• Fabio Pignatelli
  Fabio Pignatelli
  Fabio Pignatelli is an Italian musician. He was the bass guitar player for the defunct Italian progressive rock band Goblin. Goblin provided soundtracks for several horror films, most famously Dario Argento's Suspiria and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead...
  
  : Fender Precision Bass
  Fender Precision Bass
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   (fretless), Rickenbacker bass (fretted), Tabla
  Tabla
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  , Acoustic guitar, vocals
• Claudio Simonetti
  Claudio Simonetti
  Claudio Simonetti is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s.- Biography :...
  
  : Mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
   (presets: 3-Violins, church organ and 8-Choir), Elka
  Generalmusic
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   organ, Logan violin, Celesta
  Celesta
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  , Fender Rhodes
  Rhodes piano
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   Electric piano
  Electric piano
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  , Grand piano, Harpsichord
  Harpsichord
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  , Moog synthesizers (Minimoog
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   and System 55
  Moog modular synthesizer
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  )
• Giorgio Gaslini
  Giorgio Gaslini
  Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet...
  
  : Orchestra conductor
  Conducting
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  /arranger
  Arrangement
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• Giorgio Agazzi: recording engineer