Description
Mondo Sangue – DIAMANTIK
Driven by love and vengeance, the master thief DIAMANTIK chases around the world – due to relieve the most incredible, exotic locations of their most precious diamonds. Cunning secret policemen, murderous ninjas, bloodthirsty sharks and sensual sirens lead her to a previously undiscovered Sicilian island. Will she be able to bring her beloved companion back from the beyond under the volcano?
Poster
With DIAMANTIK, MONDO SANGUE takes the audience into the dazzling, stylish world of the swinging sixties. The psychedelic pop-art adventure also delivers some border crossings: Eurospy, adventure and martial arts cinema meet beat, bossanova and disco. DIAMANTIK’s daring escapades are told by means of edgy electric guitars, groovy drum beats, glamorous orchestral movements and epic vocal lines. The result is a timeless genre cocktail, served up as a brightly colored concept album.
As always, various cinematic and musical references to Italian genre cinema are openly played out, so that cineastic border crossers will notice a stylistically confident wink in the direction of Mario Bava or Ennio Morricone. The record is also given a double bottom by the homage to the iconic Italian “Fumetti neri” comics, which deal with the darker themes of pop culture in an extremely liberal manner. The result is an extremely danceable, beat-driven mixture of imaginary cult soundtrack and retro pop.
Gatefold
For their sixth album DIAMANTIK, MONDO SANGUE have once again gathered a circle of like-minded people around them: in addition to former collaborators Bela B and Rocko Schamoni, here Stefanie Schrank, Sedlmeir and the Parisian duo Eroina can be heard for the first time.
The black 180g LP in elaborately designed gatefold cover and printed inner sleeve by Adrian Keindorf is limited to 666 copies and hand-numbered. Each LP comes with a movie poster.
About MONDO SANGUE
The Stuttgart duo MONDO SANGUE (Christian Bluthardt and Yvy Pop), founded in 2015, produces music based on the Italian genre cinema of the 1960s/70s and skillfully transforms this unique sound into the modern times.
