ROY BUDD – THE INTERNECINE PROJECT
2020-03-09Composed and recorded in 1974, The Internecine Project is a classic Roy Budd score, released on vinyl for the very first time. Coming from the “peak” Roy Budd period – post Carter and pre Diamonds – this score neatly bridges the two with Carter-like hypnotic jazz driven cues and superb Diamonds style drama.
The film itself was a slick British thriller directed by Ken Hughes, set in a 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.
