A film dedicated to the work of the photojournalists who documented the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1996 is a decidedly revolutionary work, especially in a context such as the current one, where wars take place in complete waste of fundamental news rights and support for civil populations.
The protagonists of the film by Cristiana Lucia Grilli and Francesco Toscani are Džemil Hodžić and his brother Amel: a story of hopes, those of the sixteen year old Amel, who dreams of becoming an artist, infringement from the fire of a sniper.
Max Fuschetto was awarded the role of sound commentator of the powerful images, a role that the Campania musician faced for the first time, having granted songs already published for some soundtracks in the past but never conceived for this purpose. Fuschetto's work is both functional to the role of soundtrack and the most difficult one of autonomous and emotionally complementary project. The choice to rely on the label specialized in neo-classical music, the Novantqua, is functional to the desire to explore complex and limited musical structures.
Only twenty -eight minutes, divided into nine compositions, in which the most intimate and spiritual sense of pain emerges overwhelmingly. A music that slips into the sacred (“No man is an island”) and in the profane (“The Escalier de Drake (to Nick Drake)”), with equal rigor and harmonic prowess.
Each song corresponds to an almost pictorial image of the sound, between brush strokes of Glockenspiel which give light to sinuous movements of strings and keyboards (“Opalescent Pendulum”), or evocative and rooted melodies in the best tradition of film music (the title track).
Max Fuschetto puts at the service of the album the entire musical heritage that has intercepted and developed in the past, with agile sound movements from popular theater and avant -garde (“as Rain as”), profound knowledge of the most cultured soul of the popular tradition (“Haddder tough”), as well as the many opportunities offered by new creative frontiers (“Bosnina Nuserry Rhyme”) and by the reinvention of old languages ( A chapel of “The Good Morrow”, as well as the already old jazz area in “submerged oboe”).
“Sniper Alley – To My Brother” is not only an excellent soundtrack, but further confirmation of the quality and originality of Max Fuschetto's music.
29/04/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
