The music of Ennio Morricone and the greatest spaghetti western films of the 1960s performed by The Counterfeit featuring Freya Josephine Hollick.
The Counterfeit perform a dynamic collection of Italian soundtracks derived from the greatest spaghetti western films of the 1960s. Featuring Ballarat’s most wanted woman Freya Josephine Hollick on vocals, the 10-piece posse interprets iconic themes including Ennio Morricone’s The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars and Ecstasy of Gold, delivering a romantic backdrop for the perfect cinematic showdown.
The Counterfeit and Freya Josephine Hollick
- Dates: Sun 2 June 2024
- Times: Doors 6:30pm, Showtime 7:30pm
- Venue: Memo Music Hall, 88 Acland Street, St Kilda
- Tickets: $59/49/35+bf Online, $65/40 At The Door (if available) – at www.memomusichall.com.au
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The posse’s second LP 14 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West (Vol.2) showcases a track list of classic spaghetti western soundtrack music that has been reimagined, rearranged and carefully reorchestrated for the 10-piece line-up. Unlike their entirely instrumental Volume 1 LP (released in September of 2022), The Counterfeit recruited Freya Josephine Hollick to ride in the posse for 5 tracks on the Vol.2 record, which is quite a point of difference to the original film score recordings that almost always favoured male, Italian baritone vocalists.
Staying true to a lot of the typical instrumentation of the original film scores, 14KBv2 features instruments such as the chromatic harmonica, Fender Bass VI, twangy electric guitars and jangly acoustics, with trumpet, violin and an array of pianos and organs playing a huge role in transporting the listener to the unforgiving plains of the Wild West.
The infamous John Mcall will also be joining The Counterfeit to dazzle the crowd during intermission with a blazing set of solo barrelhouse piano playing.
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