Facing the terrors from childhood

 

Alfonso Carlos Santisteban (Madrid, 1943 - Málaga, 2013) was a Spanish film soundtracks and library music composer, arranger, producer and orchestra leader; focused on lounge and easy listening and on soul-jazz funk, pop & psychedelic. He composed soundtracks to over 100 movies.

 

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Imagining the distant future

 

Eric Framond is an alias used by Camille Sauvage for his releases on Editions Montparnasse 2000; Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.

 

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Drinking Rakı in an old cup

 

Barış Manço (1943 - 1999) was a Turkish rock singer, song writer and tv host. Living in Paris during the 60s, he started a band Les Mistigris. Considered one of the most influential pop artists of Turkey. Founder member of the band Kurtalan Ekspres, died suddenly of a heart attack in 1999.

 

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Pan flute exercises for vampires

 

The Mystery Kindaichi Band is a Japanese experimental band masterminded in 1977 by  composer Kentaro Haneda, with an all-star lineup of the best jazz-funk studio musicians mid-‘70s Japan offered, including Hideo Ichikawa, Jun Moriya, Tadaomi Anai and Koji Hadori. Despite the misleading soundtrack designation in its title, this isn’t a film score. Instead, the album was conceived as an audio interpretation of Seishi Yokomizo’s famed fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi.

 

The band plays with a looseness akin to that of Japan’s at-the-time bursting city-pop scene. They perform gaiety and slick disco-funk bookmarked with forlorn digressions. Many of the tracks divulge into effervescent escapes wherein members of The Mystery Kindaichi Band bounce off of each other. Most of these free-form dioramas follow unrelated, though nonetheless endearing, introductions.

 

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