Audio Fidelity AFSD 6124 brings together themes from some of the most celebrated European films of the early 1960s, arranged and conducted by Jo Basile with an all-star New York session crew including Dick Hyman, Al Caiola, Bobby Haggart, Phil Bodner, and Bobby Rosengarden. The tracklist spans Fellini's 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, and La Strada alongside Charade, Black Orpheus, and Never on Sunday.
Audio Fidelity Records earned a strong reputation in the late 1950s and early 1960s for its technically demanding stereo pressings, and this release carries their Stereodisc designation, indicating full stereophonic separation. The cover shows light shelf wear at corners. The record itself plays clean with no skips or distracting surface noise. A sharp copy of a well-played title in the exotica and world film soundtrack niche.