Internecine Project / O.S.T. - The Internecine Project (Original Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

Unreleased masterpiece by Roy Budd, the master of British 1970s scores. Composed and recorded in 1974, The Internecine Project is a truly classic Roy Budd score, released here and now on vinyl (and on any ) for the very first time. And it's worth buying just for the totally sublime track called InchMr EasyInch. Coming from the peak Roy Budd period - post Get Carter (1971) and pre Diamonds (1976) - this score neatly bridges the two with Carter-style hypnotic, jazz-driven cues and superb Diamonds-style drama. The film itself was a slick British thriller directed by Ken Hughes, set in a gray, gloomy London and based around espionage and murder. The plot is simple; former spy Robert Elliot (the ice cool James Coburn - with interesting facial hair and equally as interesting wardrobe) is given a big government job. In order to cut all questionable ties and clean up his rather grubby past he devises a plan in which all of his dodgy associates unwittingly kill each other on the same night - and in alphabetical order. The film's unusual and often misspelt name comes from the word internecine - the definition of which is conflict within a group. Full color sleeve; includes sleeve notes.