Mondo Sangue - DIAMANTIK (2024) [Hi-Res]

With DIAMANTIK, MONDO SANGUE takes the audience into the dazzling, stylish world of the swinging sixties. The psychedelic pop-art adventure also delivers some border crossings: Eurospy, adventure and martial arts cinema meet beat, bossanova and disco. DIAMANTIK's daring escapades are told by means of edgy electric guitars, groovy drum beats, glamorous orchestral movements and epic vocal lines. The result is a timeless genre cocktail, served up as a brightly colored concept album.

As always, various cinematic and musical references to Italian genre cinema are openly played out, so that cineastic border crossers will notice a stylistically confident wink in the direction of Mario Bava or Ennio Morricone. The record is also given a double bottom by the homage to the iconic Italian “Fumetti neri” comics, which deal with the darker themes of pop culture in an extremely liberal manner. The result is an extremely danceable, beat-driven mixture of imaginary cult soundtrack and retro pop.

For their sixth album DIAMANTIK, MONDO SANGUE have once again gathered a circle of like-minded people around them: in addition to former collaborators Bela B and Rocko Schamoni, here Stefanie Schrank, Sedlmeir and the Parisian duo Eroina can be heard for the first time.

Tracklist:
1-1 Mondo Sangue - Revolving Room [2:31]
1-2 Mondo Sangue - Main Theme from Diamantik [2:17]
1-3 Mondo Sangue;Stefanie Schrank - Diamond Love [3:13]
1-4 Mondo Sangue - Marrakesh Mayhem [2:40]
1-5 Mondo Sangue - Diamantiks Awakening [2:59]
1-6 Mondo Sangue;Sedlmeir - Hey Mister Commissario [2:52]
1-7 Mondo Sangue - Frisco Fling [1:48]
1-8 Mondo Sangue - Ticket to Rio [2:08]
1-9 Mondo Sangue;Rocko Schamoni - All the colours of the night [3:22]
1-10 Mondo Sangue;Eroina - Paris alley cat [2:56]
1-11 Mondo Sangue - Disco Dragon [3:11]
1-12 Mondo Sangue - Funky Shark [2:27]
1-13 Mondo Sangue;Bela B - Under the volcano [2:53]
1-14 Mondo Sangue - Road to Messina [2:41]