‘Codice D'Amore Orientale’ is a 1974 film directed by Piero Vivarelli, author also of the song “24,000 baci”, made famous by Adriano Celentano and his own record company. As the director himself stated in an interview, ‘it is a film freely inspired by the Kāma Sūtra and all its philosophy’. The story is about two young people in love, but hindered by their parents, who have already arranged their marriage. The two run away and find themselves in a forest temple, where the high priest initiates them, along with other couples, into the art of loving pleasure. The film was shot largely in Laos, Thailand and India, with the exception of some sequences filmed in Italy, inside the Sammezzano Castle.
The soundtrack was composed by Alberto Baldan Bembo under the pseudonym Blue Marvin Orchestra, and was released by Joker, a sub-label of SAAR Records, for the first time in 1974 on vinyl: a collectors' edition that SAAR is reissuing in limited edition with the addition of an unreleased “long version” of the song “Nude Love”, found in the label's archives and restored from the original analogue tapes. The album contains nine tracks of Italian and orchestral pop with oriental influences, including the tracks ‘Kamasutra’ (sampled by Stereo MC's for their 2001 hit ‘Running’), ‘Naraiand Lakshmi’, ‘Sawadi’ and the aforementioned ‘Nude Love’.