What are you listening to? September 2020
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Never heard of the album or artist, but when I hear "crime Jazz noir" and misread bedrock for bedroom, I'm all in!!!Martial Solal - A Bout De Souffle (1960)
A bedrock album in any crime jazz collection, French noir par excellence!
Ojai Sam
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Burt Bacharach - After The Fox (soundtrack 1966)
Before the onslaught of violent Italian crime films tagged as "poliziotteschi" in the 70's came frivolous fare such as this one, starring a schizophrenic cast of Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam and Akim Tamiroff in Neil Simon's first screenplay. The plot was equally disjointed according to Wiki:
Outside of Cairo, Okra (Akim Tamiroff), using a bikini-clad accomplice (Maria Grazia Buccella) as a distraction, hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold bars into Europe. There are only four master criminals considered capable of smuggling the gold, but each is ruled out: a Frenchman is so crippled he can barely move his wheelchair; an Irishman is so nearsighted he is arrested trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank; a German is so fat he can barely get through a door to escape; and an Italian, Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), a master of disguise known as The Fox, is in prison.
I tend to be wary of films with a protagonist named after a vegetable.
But the soundtrack is frothy sixties fun, anchored by a vocal performance of the theme pairing Peter Sellers and The Hollies. 
Before the onslaught of violent Italian crime films tagged as "poliziotteschi" in the 70's came frivolous fare such as this one, starring a schizophrenic cast of Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam and Akim Tamiroff in Neil Simon's first screenplay. The plot was equally disjointed according to Wiki:
Outside of Cairo, Okra (Akim Tamiroff), using a bikini-clad accomplice (Maria Grazia Buccella) as a distraction, hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold bars into Europe. There are only four master criminals considered capable of smuggling the gold, but each is ruled out: a Frenchman is so crippled he can barely move his wheelchair; an Irishman is so nearsighted he is arrested trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank; a German is so fat he can barely get through a door to escape; and an Italian, Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), a master of disguise known as The Fox, is in prison.
I tend to be wary of films with a protagonist named after a vegetable.
But the soundtrack is frothy sixties fun, anchored by a vocal performance of the theme pairing Peter Sellers and The Hollies.
Unsomnambulist
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Deerhoof - Love-Lore (2020)
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