“Fragments” is a compilation made with archived materials that Futuribile Records released on vinyl after having discovered and restored old tapes from back in the day and made available by the band members themselves. Seven tracks highlight a collective in continuous transformation and outline their drive and abilities. Little Italy has a horn section that gives them that chromatic vivacity, a typically mutant funk guitar groove, and two fatal and dazed female voices who speak many languages (English, French, Italian) reciting collages of cryptic texts evoking modernity through no-sense and cultured quotations; a funk thrill in the basslines and drums solutions that give a nod to the sly disco beat of a specific easy listening, elegant and refined Italo sound. A super-sophisticated sound with the right dose of fusion, proper New Wave, which in the more New-Yorker passages recalls the volcanic and sweaty sound of the contemporary and fellow citizens Bisca, another out-of-the-box band member. The warm Mediterranean wind blowing on some tracks certifies their origin and the exoticism leads Little Italy to drink from that oasis of escape.

Brand new, never played, unsealed