The late (he passed away in 2015) Walter Marchetti was a composer who wrote and played in the collective ZAJ, a Fluxus minded group of sound artists from the year 1964 until they officially disbanded in the 1990s. I went to Rockaway to check out the Ronald Kane collection of LPs he sold to the record store before his untimely death. This one stood out to me due to the cover as well as being on the label Cramps records - not to be confused with the great band called The Cramps. Then again, there is no such thing as coincidence.
"La Caccia" (the Hunt) is a landscape record. Two sides of what sounds like being in nature and listening to either birds or instruments that sound like creatures in the wilderness. Duck calls, and other devices to attract the attention to these creatures of nature are used, and on one level this is very much an environmental soundtrack album. For me, it has the touch of disgust, due that I hate the idea of one going hunting and killing an animal. Still, since the liner notes are all in Italian (a language I don't understand) these are the tools of perhaps a hunter but used for aesthetic purposes. This is very much a music score being played out, and although it is placed (in the aural sense) in the middle of a hunt, and more likely in a godlike freezing condition, it's a funny work of art. Using something that is sound related for the sake of luring birds to be shot, or other animals, is instead used in a music composition. There is something very Goon (Spike Milligan/Peter Sellers) like that crosses my mind as I listen to this album. I now have the urge to collect all recordings from the Italian label Cramps Records.
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