The monkey is sadly late to the party on this one but couldn’t pass up the chance to comment on a single called Italian Love Triangle. It is, of course, one of the tracklist centrepieces of Whatitdo Archive Group’s The Black Stone Affair – an LP which provides lost soundtrack thrills to an alleged lost spaghetti western/ noir/ caper/ giallo-flick. This one is the sixties bossa style instro which, on the album, cavorts around betwixt the moody library music of If Furto Di Africa and the tense blaxploitation funk of Last Train To Budapest – itself a triangle to conjure with, albeit of the musical variety. Naturally the track is accompanied by a suitably retro video – this one rather more Viaggio In Italia than Triangolo Amoroso Italiano as the camera flits promiscuously from women getting wet in Rome to a man polishing his fruit. Now I come to think of it – maybe it’s more apt than I first thought…
(Out now on Record Kicks)