[Thor Joachim Haga]

The New Year’s erotica selection is the third and final Cipriani score, and incidentally also one I mentioned briefly in the very first post: ORGASMO NERO (1980). I’ve never seen it, but IMDB describes it thusly: “A man is doing research on an island where a strange tribe lives. The man’s wife gets into a (sexual) relationship with a woman from the tribe and brings her back to the big city where problems begin to occur.”

Sounds wonky. Be that as it may, Cipriani’s score (which is only named “Sequence 1”, “Sequence 2” etc. for 28 tracks) is a mix of 50s and 60s exotica tropes (EXOTICA EROTICA!), with an array of percussion instruments, obligatory sax, organs and smooth basslines. Perfect lounge.