St. Pauli Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

The district of St. Pauli was the most famous area of ​​prostitution in Hamburg, a paradise of marginalization and drug deal.

The marginal folklore that naturally spills out of these neighborhoods was a full plate for the German popular cinema that explored the marginal/underground strain in a series of thrillers set in St. Pauli, some starred by Curt Jurgens as detective Markus Jolly. The soundtracks for these productions naturally employed reference to its time (rock, jazz, psychedelia, etc.) in a priceless series of scores.  The collection opens with a the "rhythmic frenzy" of Go Go Girls (1969, by Gerry Hayes and the Dynamic Brass) from On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight, and goes by a wide variety of styles and climates (always referring to marginalia). Openly lecherous music, the collection will make the delight of nostalgic listeners with its infallible blends of electric organs, hammond keyboards, bongos and powerful brasses. Genres and climates are quite evident throughout the hearing: jazz-pop in Shake (Frank Valdor Orchester, 1967), eroticism in Lesbishe Nummer (Peter Thomas, 1969), sensual bossa nova in Black Market (Frank Valdor, 1966), marginal jazz in Top Secret and Fluchtweg St. Pauli (Peter Schirmann, 1971) and even moments of humor, all inviting to the atmosphere of cabarets, casinos and nightclubs. A great record of German popular cinema between 1967 and 1972, not to be missed. Let the bad times roll with St. Pauli Affairs.