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Through rare and unreleased cuts from the CAM Sugar archive, 'Tropicale' traces the incendiary liaisons between Italian film music and tropical culture in the 1960s across bossa nova, samba, Latin jazz, exotica, calypso, mambo and other tropical rhythms. Featuring music by the likes of Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Bruno Nicolai, Armando Trovajoli and many more cult composers, the collection stands as the dancing side of the Dolce Vita years when Italian cinema, and society as a whole, looked for escapism via exotic music, design and lifestyle. Across 26 tracks - 8 of which are completely unreleased and 13 never before published on digital format - the South-American and Caribbean soundscapes meet with the flamboyance of Italian jazz resulting in a one-of-a-kind hybrid of Mediterranean and Latin melodies and sensitivities, bursting with congas, igniting percussion, tense double-bass riffs, horns and uplifting drum breaks. The collection stands as a testament of the fascination Italian cinema developed for tropical sounds, equally applied to carefree comedies and high-browed essai cinema from the likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Tracklist
LP 1:
1. Paura
2. Squillo
3. Solitudine
4. Che notte ragazzi
5. Duello nel mondo
6. Chiamate 22-22 Tenente Sheridan (Night beguine)
7. Sambissima
8. Forse un giorno andrò a Rio
9. Bianco e nero
10. Baleari Operazione Oro
11. Easy Calypso
12. Franca
13. Zio Giuda
14. F.B.I. Operazione vipera gialla
15. Top Sensation
16. Mozarteum
LP 2:
1. Afro
2. Consuelo (Danza Voodoo)
3. Frenesia
4. Un mambo sentimentale
5. Nudo, crudo e cha cha cha
6. La cento chilometri
7. Pupa cha cha cha
8. Cha Cha Cha
9. Cha cha cha cantato
10. Mambo in piscina
CD:
1. Paura
2. Squillo
3. Solitudine
4. Che notte ragazzi
5. Duello nel mondo
6. Chiamate 22-22 Tenente Sheridan (Night beguine)
7. Sambissima
8. Forse un giorno andrò a Rio
9. Bianco e nero
10. Baleari Operazione Oro
11. Easy Calypso
12. Franca
13. Zio Giuda
14. F.B.I. Operazione vipera gialla
15. Top Sensation
16. Mozarteum
17. Afro
18. Consuelo (Danza Voodoo)
19. Frenesia
20. Un mambo sentimentale
21. Nudo, crudo e cha cha cha
22. La cento chilometri
23. Pupa cha cha cha
24. Cha Cha Cha
25. Cha cha cha cantato
26. Mambo in piscina