TROPICALE: When the Dolce Vita discovered exotica, calypso, mambo, samba and other tropical rhythms (1959–1969) (2LP) paolo buonvino influences that span from jazz

influences that span from jazz to exotica

Carlo Savina – Rapina alle Officine Tevere*

Giuseppe De Luca – Studio X – 2:35 | from L’ALTRA FACCIA DEL PECCATO (1969)

Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco - Dancefloor seductions from Italian sexploitation cinema (1969-1981) is an unprecedented and one-of-a-kind foray into the erotic side of Italian soundtracks curated by American director and actor Eli Roth

TROPICALE: When the Dolce Vita discovered exotica, calypso, mambo, samba and other tropical rhythms (1959–1969) (2LP) paolo buonvino influences that span from jazzTropicale 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.