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12.07.13 Music Week 41
NEW REISSUES / CATALOGUE ALBUMS
CHAS & DAVE • The EMI Years Anthology (EMI 9938992)
Recently reconvened and just three dates into a major - 32- gig - UK tour which doesn't
wind up until December 29, ‘rockney’ (rock + cockney) legends Chas & Dave are the subjects of this new four-disc box set. It contains their first two EMI studio albums Rockney and Don’t Give A Monkeys in their entirety, including their cleverly’constructed hit singles Rabbit, Gertcha and Got My Beer On The Sideboard Here. Dating from 1979, and much expanded, the duo’s Abbey Road concert is full of fun and shows that whether or not one enjoys their particular style, they were polished professionals, and great crowd pleasers. An Odds & Sods set includes more Abbey Road material - both the 1979 gig and a 2005 recording session - and B-sides, and the set is completed by a DVD featuring a 2005 Shepherd’s Bush gig, interviews and a Jam session. Chas & Dave superfan Phil Jupitus introduces the gig and provides liner notes.
VARIOUS • Terry Farley Presents Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid & Deep House 1985-1991 (Harmless HURTXCD 123)
It's 25 years since the hedonistic Chicago club scene gave birth to Acid House, and to mark the
genre’s silver anniversary, DJ and survivor Terry Farley has compiled this in-depth selection, which traces the its history and mutation through a six-year span via 61 full- length 12-inch mixes across 5 CDs with a playing time of six hours. Featuring key tracks like Baby Wants To Ride by Frankie Knuckles, Another World by Bam Bam, Dream Girl by Pierre’s Fantasy Club, In The Night by Ralphi Rosario and Distant Planet by Mr Fingers, it is a magnificent celebration of a sound which was eventually absorbed and assimilated into mainstream dance. It has a nostalgic sway for those who remember it from the time and, with a revival of interest triggered by current DJs, it will also be attractive to a younger generation of clubbers. To
complete a fine package, this worthy box set comes with a 32- page booklet written by Miles Simpson and featuring illustrations from Farley’s archives.
VARIOUS • Tres Chic! - More French Girl Singers Of The 1960s (Ace International CDCHD 1365)
A sequel to the excellent C’est Chic set that Ace released last Autumn, Tres Chic offers up a
further 24 of the best sixties selections by Gallic girls in the 'ye-ye' style. Among the acts making repeat appearances are Francoise Hardy and France Gall, two of the best and most distinctive female French vocalists of the 1960s. Each is granted a further two songs here, and both tackle Serge Gainsbourg compositions, with Gall’s spirited Attends Ou Va-t'en prettily decorated by harmonica fills, and Hardy’s enigmatic elegance delivering the definitive version of the maestro’s Comment Te Dire Adieu, a later UK smash for Jimmy Sommerville. Another familiar
song, The Small Faces’ hit Sha La La La Lee, is adapted as Ce N’est Pas Une Vie by another distinctive vocalist, Pussy Cat. Also worthy of attention are Brigitte Bardot’s Je Danse Donc Je Suis, Jacqueline Taieb’s prettily-accented, largely spoken 7 AM (an English language adaptation of her track 7 Heures De Matin), and all three songs by Gillian Hills, an Egyptian- born, Paris-based Anglo-Pole, especially the pretty folk/rock confection Look At Them’
TIM ANDREWS • Something About Suburbia - The Sixties Sound Of Tim Andrews (RPM RETRO 928)
Anthologising recordings he made solo with Paul Korda and as a member of The Gremlins, Fleur De Lys and
Rupert’s People made between 1966 and 1970, Something About Suburbia is a long overdue and fascinating trawl through the archives of aspirant pop star Tim Andrews, who never really made it but went on to pen songs for
the likes of David Essex, Roger Daltrey and The Casuals. It’s an eclectic selection, with freakbeat, psych and baroque stylings all discernible. Opening track High Time Baby - a Spencer Davis cover - is credited to The Gremlins, and is a raw, enthusiastic stompe. It is followed by the Fleur De Lys nugget Mud In Your Eye, another driving, propulsive but more sophisticated effort. Rupert’s People delivered the significantly more elegant, rather elegiac Reflections Of Charles Brown which bears a passing resemblance to Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade Of Pale, probably because both songs are based on Bach’s Air On A G String, and feature prominent organ. The track draws a fine vocal from Andrews, and is a stylistic companion piece to the first of six Andrews solo tracks on the set, Sad Simon Live Again. The rest of Andrews’ solo cuts and collaborations with Korda make for an impressive, melodic and underrated body of work, with the possible exception of the title track, which is a trite singalong.
Contact Karma Bertelsen, 020 7226 7246,
karma.bertelsen@
intentmedia.co.uk
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