A disturbing journey into the sound universe of cocktail music, the most authentic lounge, sipping a martini, hot horny swish of the stylus of your turntable that sinks into the groove of a track worn by Henry Mancini, Yma Sumac. Regretting, perhaps like me he has not lived the sixties and early seventies. Mondo Exotica by Francesco Adinolfi is a volume that can not fail in the library of every music lover, worthy of the name, because it covers only 500 pages in a world often ignored by the music bibliography. As detailed in the subtitle says, sounds, visions and delusions of the Cocktail Generation. And then we leave for a flight in Sidereal Space Age Pop, dreaming of the orchestras of Les Baxter e le sofisticate dark ladies del noir americano tanto care a Dashiell Hammett. Bellissimo poi il capitolo riservato al jazz criminale e quello dedicato alla spy music nostrana. Una rassegna di numi tutelari che ancor oggi mi provocano dei brividi, accanto al pluricelebrato Morricone, i grandissimi Piccioni, Ferrio, Bacalov , Trovajoli, Ortolani. La bibliografia alla fine del volume vale da sola l’acquisto. L’ho divorato in un lontano pomeriggio piovoso veneziano dieci anni fa…
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