Listen to two tracks from “La Citta’ Delle Donne” (General Music, Italy, 1980) by Luis Bacalov. Soundtrack to the Federico Fellini film.

A quick gander at this film’s synopsis could get one quite excited: liasons in train lavatories, a surrealistic feminist convention, livid women on rollerskates who simultaneously practice how to kick a showroom dummy in the knackers, a mysterious Doctor, whose wife’s party trick is to telepathically lure small objects into her deepest darkest soft places, photographs that talk dirty and an all female police force. Then it all turns out to be a dream, or does it?…..

Well, the music doesn’t live up to all that, I’m afraid. It is awash with dull orchestral pomp and chintz. But buried there amongst all the dross are the two wonderful tunes in this sound clip: ‘Voci Nella Citta’ Delle Donne’, with it’s bongo and tabla back beat, threatening fuzz guitar and cut-up disembodied voices, and ‘Snaporaz’s Trip’, a strange hybrid of military snare drum, synth-wash, jazz funk trumpet and super twangy 80s slap bass. It probably accompanies our hero on his drug fueled car ride through the night, during which, according to the plot notes, he and a gang of young women listen to techno….in 1980. You can’t trust everything you read.