Album artwork for Africa Addio (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Riz Ortolani

This is a Record Store Day 2019 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 13th April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 20th April.

Africa Addio (also known as Africa Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the UK) isa 1966 film directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, winner of the David di Donatello prize for best production in the same year; the same directors, four years earlier, with the seminal Mondo Cane, practically invented the ‘Mondo movie’ movie genre, transforming the classic documentary format into something shocking, making use of low-budget amateurish shots showing a raw, crude reality that, compared to the one in which the films were distributed and projected, was very distant, geographically and ideologically.

In 1963 Mondo Cane was followed by La Donna Nel Mondo, (“Women of the world”), and in both cases their soundtrack had been entrusted to Riz Ortolani, who eventually came back to work with Jacopetti /Prosperi in ‘66 with Africa Addio, a film that already at the time raised a discreet fuss among critics and experts. Ortolani’s music is mainly classical / symphonic, played by a wisely directed orchestra, perfect both during the most relaxed moments, where the use of stringed instruments prevails, and in dramatic ones, in which the presence of the wind instruments amplifies the tragic events documented in the film.

Africa Addio is an exclusive release for the Record Store Day 2019, reissued today almost forty years after its previous edition. Limited to 500 Copies.

Riz Ortolani

Africa Addio (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Vinyl Magic
Album artwork for Africa Addio (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Riz Ortolani
LP

£14.99

Red vinyl.

Released 13/04/2019Catalogue Number

VMLP222

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Riz Ortolani

Africa Addio (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Vinyl Magic
Album artwork for Africa Addio (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Riz Ortolani
LP

£14.99

Red vinyl.

Released 13/04/2019Catalogue Number

VMLP222

Learn more

This is a Record Store Day 2019 item. It will be available to purchase from our stores from 8am 13th April. Remaining stock will be available to purchase from this page at 00.01 20th April.

Africa Addio (also known as Africa Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the UK) isa 1966 film directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, winner of the David di Donatello prize for best production in the same year; the same directors, four years earlier, with the seminal Mondo Cane, practically invented the ‘Mondo movie’ movie genre, transforming the classic documentary format into something shocking, making use of low-budget amateurish shots showing a raw, crude reality that, compared to the one in which the films were distributed and projected, was very distant, geographically and ideologically.

In 1963 Mondo Cane was followed by La Donna Nel Mondo, (“Women of the world”), and in both cases their soundtrack had been entrusted to Riz Ortolani, who eventually came back to work with Jacopetti /Prosperi in ‘66 with Africa Addio, a film that already at the time raised a discreet fuss among critics and experts. Ortolani’s music is mainly classical / symphonic, played by a wisely directed orchestra, perfect both during the most relaxed moments, where the use of stringed instruments prevails, and in dramatic ones, in which the presence of the wind instruments amplifies the tragic events documented in the film.

Africa Addio is an exclusive release for the Record Store Day 2019, reissued today almost forty years after its previous edition. Limited to 500 Copies.