1973 Turkish RE of ’72 OG The Tropicals “Urubamba” on Grafonola.

Yeah, this isn’t actually a band, or Turkish for that matter. It’s heavy Italian library action and, typically, is a four-way split between the MIGHTY saxophonist Giancarlo Barigozzi, the mighty pianist Oscar Rocchi, the composer Chiarosi (who is really just O. Rocchi) and the composer Gianazzi (who is really just Barigozzi). So, a two-way split. Which, unsurprisingly, is great. Which is to say jam-packed with enthographic jungle funk boogie groove and Third Steam indigenous instrumentation and chanting morphed into cinematic waveform soundtracking. Snippets of genius, runs of profundity, moments of boogie action, a hour of appreciation of a time and place where making this kind of music was seen as a definitive lifestyle. Rules.