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1LP Vinyl – SLEEREC002

Special 50th anniversary Reissue.

Urubamba by the Italian duo The Tropicals is the perfect foil to Nino Nardini’s and Roger Roger’s Jungle Obsession (1971). Both albums are released a few months apart, are made by Italians and Frenchmen, intermix field recordings and sound libraries with cavalcades of drums, flutes and Funk Exotica and simply entrap that European version of epidemical funkiness of the time which can be rightfully ridiculed, but equally enjoyed. The Tropicals are Giancarlo Barigozzi alias Ginazzi, a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist whose signature instrument is – at least on this record – the latter one, and Oscar Rocchi alias Chiarosi who provides the electric piano and keyboard to the drum-laden LP.