ALESSANDRO CORTINI - Il Mostro (colonna sonora della serie Netflix)

It's 1968. Sanremo Festival. Antoine comes fifth singing "La tramontana". That same year, on the night between 21 and 22 August, the Lo Bianco–Locci double murder takes place. This crime is considered the starting point of the so-called "Sardinian Trail", one of the many avenues pursued in the attempt to solve the case of the Monster of Florence. In 2009 the series "Il Mostro di Firenze" is released, and – to chilling effect – "Gioco di bimba" by Le Orme is chosen as its opening theme.

In 2025, in the opening track of Netflix's "Il Mostro" series, Alessandro Cortini reworks "La tramontana" ("La tramontana – Main Title"), introducing the four episodes centred on the Sardinian trail, directed by Stefano Sollima. The Rome-born director knows how to elevate his series work through music: just think of the original scores for "Gomorra – La Serie" by Mokadelic and for "ZeroZeroZero", composed by the Mogwai. For the events of "Il Mostro", Sollima enlists Cortini, bringing him into the realm of soundtracks. A shared universe – with admirable results – also explored by "former bandmate" Trent Reznor alongside Atticus Ross and, more recently, with the whole of Nine Inch Nails.

Although "Il Mostro" does feature period tracks – for instance, "Va bene, va bene così" by Vasco Rossi – it's hard to imagine a more fitting accompaniment than Cortini's for the terrifying images of the "sweet hills of blood" (to quote the book by the late Mario Spezi, the journalist who devoted his life to the hunt for the Monster) where those gruesome events took place. Cortini's compositions move between "rhythms, atmospheres and themes", achieving an evocative power that comes through fully even when heard apart from Sollima's images.

Amid the unsettling Florentine countryside, ambient vistas alternate with disorienting, distorted passages – such as the seven minutes of "Tema 1" or "Ambiente 6 Isterica" – and moments more in the classic soundtrack à-la Carpenter mould, like "Mostro River 2" or the closing moments of "101 Chiusura". All the way to the whirling descent into the darkest night of "Ritmo 11 – End Titles".

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15/11/2025