Various Artists - Tropicale - The French Riviera Edition (2025) [Hi-Res]

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 - 8 of which are completely unreleased and 13 never before published on digital format - 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.

Tracklist:
1-1 Claude Bolling - Mexican Paradise (Alla Cugat) (Bande originale du film "Le Magnifique" - Remastered 2023) [3:18]
1-2 Michel Colombier - Batuccada Erotica (From "Les Onze Mille Verges" Original Soundtrack) [2:47]
1-3 Martinho Da Vila & Os Originais Do Samba - Paraiso De Pobre (From "Traitement De Choc" Original Soundtrack / Generique) [4:13]
1-4 Claude Bolling - Gloria toujours (Version II / From "L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres" Original Soundtrack) [2:06]
1-5 Hubert Rostaing - Tijuana haute (From "La valise" Original Soundtrack) [3:13]
1-6 Antoine Duhamel - Le Tangossanova (Bande originale du film "L'acrobate" / Remastered 2024) [1:59]
1-7 Hubert Rostaing - Tahiti Drink (From "La Dernière femme / La Ultima donna" Original Soundtrack) [1:58]
1-8 Claude Bolling - Gloria toujours (Version I, jazz trio / From "L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres" Original Soundtrack) [4:08]
1-9 Philippe Sarde - Liza (From "Liza" Original Soundtrack) [3:03]
1-10 Claude Bolling - Boeing 747 (From "L'année sainte" Original Soundtrack) [2:16]
1-11 Alain Jessua - Poursuite - 1 (From "Traitement De Choc" Original Soundtrack) [4:22]
1-12 Hubert Rostaing - La Radicale (From "Barocco" Original Soundtrack) [4:05]