After the debut album “Sunrise Light” very well reviewed all over the world released in 2010, this is the second work of the Panaphonic project by Roby Colella, who is also one of the 2 partners of the flagship project of the label Barrio Jazz Gang.
The new songs are inspired by the 60s and 70s and by the classic soundtracks of TV detective series and spy-movies. Sound for scenes of chases, mystery, danger, and crime. Acoustic instruments and analog keyboards have been used, and of course many sounds are treated with the wah-wah effect pedal. Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, electric guitar and of course solid bass and drum rhythms. The MidTempo groove is the common base of all the songs, very catchy and surprising. There are also echoes and images of the psychedelic era that evoke hallucinatory trips, but always with a positive vibration. Retro suspense for action-movies sometimes able to tell the story more than many dialogues.
Most of the films of the 60s and 70s used a lot of funky sound to comment on the fast sequences. Of course in the cd there are also echoes of those times. “Blaxploitation” the word itself is a “portmanteau” of the words “black” and “exploitation” which fits perfectly in the retro sound of the cd.
Blaxploitation makes the black underworld sexy, chic and seductive in the same way as Coppola (Francis Ford) in the ‘Godfather’ where he makes the Italian underworld sexy seductive and chic.
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