Alessandro Alessandroni, Jessica Duncan, pAd

2025 stock With Italian Library Songbook Vol. 1, Four Flies Records launches an ambitious project reconnecting the golden age of Italian soundtrack composition to contemporary songwriting and club aesthetics. This inaugural volume pays homage to Alessandro Alessandroni—the polymath composer, guitarist, and whistler behind countless Morricone collaborations and a vast body of library work that defined the sonic texture of postwar Italian cinema.

Here, Jessica Duncan and Neapolitan producer pAd (of Les Inferno collective) breathe new life into lesser-known material from Alessandroni’s 1976 score Sangue di sbirro (Cop’s Blood). Side A’s Do You Wanna Get Close? transforms fragments of his track Philadelphia into a shimmeringly intimate downtempo groove: a Balearic slow-burn where Duncan’s smooth vocal lines coil around Rhodes piano, relaxed drums, and restrained yet sultry horn riffs. The piece evokes the liquid sensuality of mid‑’70s disco‑soul while remaining grounded in Alessandroni’s distinctive harmonic daring.

Side B restores Philadelphia in a lovingly remastered cut, showcasing the maestro’s blend of jazz‑funk propulsion and cinematic sophistication—music that once bridged Europe’s cool elegance and America’s dance‑floor optimism. Mastered by Fabrizio De Carolis in Rome’s Prati district and cut at The Carvery in London, the sound gleams with analog richness and spatial depth, ensuring fidelity to the warmth of its 1970s origins.

More than a simple reissue, Italian Library Songbook Vol. 1 functions as a dialogue between eras. Duncan and pAd don’t just reinterpret Alessandroni—they uncover the connective tissue between library music’s original function as utilitarian art and its contemporary reincarnation as a living groove language. The result is a record poised between nostalgia and reinvention: elegant, tactile, and light on its feet, ready for both late‑night listening and open‑air dance floors.