Description
Piombo - Italian Crime Soundtracks From The Years Of Lead (1973-1981)
Introducing a new CAM Sugar collection on Italian crime soundtracks (Poliziottesco / Spaghetti Crime); PIOMBO paints a ‘picture in sound’ of The Years of Lead (1973–1981), a controversial period when the escalation of political violence and terrorism in Italy reached its climax. Italian cinema documented this season with Polizieschi (aka Spaghetti Crime Films / Poliziotteschi / Euro Crime): a genre that, drawing from the French Polar tradition and American Blaxploitation, encompassed thrill and action (but also comedy and drama) in a whirlwind of breath-taking car chases, heists, kidnaps, gunfights, political terror attacks, and brutal violence.
Polizieschi’s soundtracks were tense, aggressive and hallucinated: they embraced balaclava-clad Blaxploitation sound where brass-led themes were laid on a sonic bed made of propulsive bass lines, haunting drum beats, wah wah guitars, latin percussion highlights, and epic strings nodding to disco.
The sound of the collection is various and tremendously contemporary (this genre was sampled by the likes of Madlib and synched by Quentin Tarantino): its core is American jazz-funk, with episodes of acid progressive rock (“Il grande racket”, composed by the De Angelis brothers, Guido and Maurizio, for Enzo G. Castellari’s masterpiece), synth-infused disco music of Stelvio Cipriani (“Body Guard”, one of the 9 previously unreleased treasures of this compilation), electronic music and more.
Tracklist
A1 Bruno Nicolai– L'uomo Della Strada Fa Giustizia 1:25
A2 Guido And Maurizio De Angelis– Silkin' Street (Inseguimento) 2:40
A3 Stelvio Cipriani– Poliziotto Sprint (Titoli) 2:12
A4 Riz Ortolani– Il Cappotto Di Legno 1:29
A5 Filippo Trecca– Onore E Guapparia 2:26
A6 Stelvio Cipriani– Il Marsigliese Fugge 2:24
A7 Carlo Savina– Rapina Alle Officine Tevere 2:13
B1 Riz Ortolani– L'Intoccabile Mr. Cliff 3:24
B2 Paolo Vasile– Tema B 2:48
B3 Roberto Pregadio– Killer Per Necessità 3:05
B4 Stelvio Cipriani– Speed Driver (Titoli) 2:53
B5 Stelvio Cipriani– Bersaglio Altezza Uomo (Titoli) 3:19
C1 Stelvio Cipriani– Body Guard 3:06
C2 Vassili Kojucharov*– Club Mala 2:51
C3 Franco Micalizzi– Roller Cop 3:58
C4 Luis Bacalov– It's Time To Die 1:33
C5 Franco Campanino– Assalto In Moto 1:10
C6 Guido And Maurizio De Angelis– Il Grande Racket (Titoli) 1:58
D1 Stelvio Cipriani– Cani Arrabbiati (Titoli) 2:08
D2 Stelvio Cipriani– Vecchio Boss 1:04
D3 Manuel De Sica– Night Casinò (Alt. Take) 2:23
D4 Luis Bacalov– Sfida All'Organizzazione 2:18
D5 Stelvio Cipriani– Azione Commando 2:20
D6 Manuel De Sica– Montreal 2:12
D7 Stelvio Cipriani– Avvoltoi Sulla Città (Titoli) 2:35
D8 Franco Campanino– Dramma Di Un Commissario 3:05
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