Various Artists - Tropical [2xLP]

 Tropicale is the explosion of joy of the Italian economic miracle, the promise of distant destinations becoming all of a sudden tangible, the illusion of a taboo world where everything seems possible.

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, 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.

Tropicale includes 26 tracks, 8 of which are completely unreleased and 13 never before published in digital format.

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Tracklist

1. Paura
2. Squillo (Titoli)
3. Solitudine
4. Che Notte Ragazzi (Bossa Vocalizzata)
5. Duello Nel Mondo (Bossa Nova)
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 (Sambetta)
11. Easy Calypso
12. Franca
13. Zio Guida
14. F.B.I. Operazione Vipera Gialla (Mambo)
15. Top Sensation (Latin)
16. Mozarteum
17. Afro
18. Consuelo (Danza Voodoo) 2a Versione
19. Frenesia
20. Un Mambo Sentimentale
21. Nudo, Crudo E Cha Cha Cha
22. La Cento Chilometri (Mambo)
23. Pupa Cha Cha Cha
24. Mamma Roma (Cha Cha Cha)
25. Cha Cha Cha Cantato
26. Mambo In Piscina