The Stuttgart Duo Mondo Sangue has been playing soundtracks of imaginary films for over ten years, which could have originated from the Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.
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The special magic of the past is that it cannot defend itself against transfiguration. Not simply nostalgia makes the review beautiful – or at least not only. In pop, “better” does not mean the morally or socially better, but the more intense, the more stylistically safer, the more interesting. And all of this is linked to the old promises: that a real, but at least a wonderful life in the wrong one is possible.
In retro aesthetics, these promises return, but from a distance: this is what the pop looked like, let’s say 50 years. The most convincing is retroesthetics when it is aware of the past character of the music that she conjures up.
The Stuttgart Duo Mondo Sangue has been playing soundtracks of imaginary films for over ten years, which could have originated from the Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. His music is tight, but rhythmically relaxed: gentle grooves, subtle wind players and strings, bongos, lounge guitars, Hammond organ, opulent and ironic sounds.
The new album »Diamantik« delivers the score to an agent drama that does not exist. You can then sit down in the KPOF. Even the title song (“Main theme from diamantic”) rhymes with “Diamantic” on “elegantic”, and so the whole work sounds: elegantly constructed, but blessed with a bizarre that blessed from a lovingly built microcosm. What also holds the pieces inside is stylistic subtle and a playful affinity for friendly, bizarre children’s melodies.
Sometimes this is reminiscent of stereolab in its middle phase, but without their herb-dry or experimental excursions-rather always with the cocktail glass and the pool lounger. And yet this music always draws into the night and into the scary. The band name does not mean “world of blood”. The pseudonyms of the two musicians – Christian Bluthardt and Yvy Pop – also fit into the picture. They are supported on the album by Rocko Schamoni, Bela B and Stefanie Schrank.
“Diamantic” sounds so stylish and mature that in retrospect it-an era of departure and good style decisions-makes it appear more real than the historical material itself. The latter inevitably includes the work of composer Peter Thomas, who in the 1960s and 1970s, including countless cinema and television productions, including many Edgar Wallace and Jerry-Cotton films. At the center of his work is the rightly legendary music for the science fiction series “Space patrol-the fantastic adventures of the Orion spaceship”. In the zero and ten years, this sound was quoted, sampled and ironically reflected by Easy listing and electronics frickers, for example by Pulp or the stereo-mentioned stereo.
The Mocambo Record label has now made previously unpublished material from the estate of the composer who died in 2020. The “The Tape Masters Vol. 1 – Library Music” collection offers an impressive insight into Thomas’ musical universe: the drums, the wind players indulge, swing everything. The present is unified, loses sharpness, everything is pleasantly removed, and the future was better in the past. In combination with “diamondics”, one of the most beautiful retro slides of the past few years results.
Blood World: Diamantik (Allscore / Indigo)
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester: The Tape Masters Vol. 1 – Library Music (Mocambo Records)
The new album »Diamantik« delivers the score to an agent drama that does not exist.
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