John Williams
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Claudio TALLINOCalamo (Soundtrack)Sonor Music Editions Italy

“(...) The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded 9th Symphony.”— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange

Elias RAHBANI / ZIAD RAHBANIBelly Dance Fever (reissue)Right Track LebanonInstrumental album.

Italian producer Azzurro 80 makes his debut on Four Flies with a super limited edition 7 inch (300 copies only) that draws its energy from and is inspired by the Italian library scene of the 80s. More specifically, its retro but innovative sonic landscape combines shiny synthesizers and dynamic jazz-funk with pop and television culture.
As he himself explains, the name “Azzurro 80” is meant to refer to a particular shade of light blue: “a worn-out, faded light blue that feels retro and outmoded”, just like the color adjective “azzurro” feels a bit outmoded these days (most people seem to prefer “celeste”). Through his music, he aims to evoke precisely that color, and the nostalgic but comforting combination of sounds that corresponds to it.Side A features AGIP, titled after Italy’s first national oil company (later absorbed by Italian multinational oil and gas company ENI), whose famous logo is a six-legged dog spitting fire. The track transports you to a night-driving scene seen through the eyes of a kid sitting in the back of a family car (i.e., the composer himself back in the 80s), the asphalt roads dimly lit by yellowish street lights surmounted by the fire-spitting canine. Side B opens with ASTROTENSIONE, a cosmic synth-pop journey through a nebula, almost like the sonic depiction of someone touching a fast traveling asteroid, while TELEFONO GIALLO is a tribute to the late 80s Italian true crime and docudrama TV show of the same name.Just let the tunes spin on your turntable and follow Azzurro 80 into his reimagined version of the Italian Eighties.