Berto Pisano, Jacques Chaumont - Kill! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1972)

"Kill!" (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to writer and director Romain Gary's international crime thriller Kill! (1971). Released by General Music in 1972, the album is considered a true gem of the golden era of Italian film music, as well as a cult artifact among Rare Groove collectors.

The music was officially credited to Italian composer Berto Pisano and the enigmatic Jacques Chaumont, but many researchers and music archives agree that Jacques Chaumont is nothing more than a pseudonym for Pisano himself (or his brother Franco).

Since the spy film is set against the backdrop of fading colonialism in India and Pakistan, Pisano and Chaumont masterfully intertwined European crime funk with delicate Eastern (ethnic) motifs. The music sounds dangerous, sophisticated and psychedelic at the same time.