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NEW REISSUES / CATALOGUE ALBUMS
PAUL SIMON • The Complete Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy 88691912922)
If Paul Simon’s career had finished when he and Art Garfunkel called a halt to their joint canon
after 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water, he would still be a musical legend - but he simply dusted himself off and embarked on a solo career of equal magnitude. One of the most influential, important and successful singers and songwriters of his time, he will be 72 next month, and the day after his birthday, Columbia/Legacy will drop this monumental box set which delivers on its promise to be The Complete Albums
Collection...and then some. Housing all 12 studio albums Simon has cut solo and two full-length concert recordings across 15 CDs, it includes 37 bonus tracks and is housed in a chunky, deluxe library box alongside a 52- page booklet with a plethora of photographs, and new liner notes. The tracks on offer span nearly 50 years, from The Paul Simon
Songbook - a 1965 acoustic set recorded in London just as Simon & Garfunkel’s joint career started to take off - to 2011’s sublime So Beautiful Or So What. In between, there’s so much more, including the seminal early 1970s sets Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin’ Simon and world music landmark Graceland - a rich and heady tapestry of styles, with a clearly inspired Simon feeding off the contributions of South African musicians like Ladysmith Black Mabazo, who were torpedoed to world stardom in the aftermath. Likely to be on many Christmas gift lists a little later in the year.
GIORGIO • From Here To Eternity (Repertoire REP 5319)/GIORGIO MORODER: Best Of Electronic Disco (REP 5180)/MUNICH MACHINE: Body Shine (REP 5226)
Another trio of intriguing Giorgio Moroder related albums from Repertoire, the latest batch
comprises an extended version of his 1977 disco classic From Here To Eternity, which received much
attention following his success with Donna Summer; Body Shine, the third album by session musicians collective Munich Machine; and Best Of Electronic Disco, a compilation which includes solo material, plus collaborations with the likes of Joe Esposito and Chris Bennett. All three are newly remastered, clad in smart digipacks and furnished with bonus tracks - and all have their share of disco delights, though it has to be said that for all his genius, Moroder wasn’t a great singer, so it’s easier to enjoy the songs when they are delivered by others. Perhaps the best of the three is Body Shine, a highly-polished set of songs with much melodic content and an exclusive, previously unreleased 17- minute Moroder Mix as a bonus.
ROBERT PALMER • Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley/ Pressure Drop (Edsel EDSK 7037)/Some People Can Do What They Like/Double Fun (EDSK 7038)/Secrets/Clues/Maybe It's Live (EDSK 7039)/Pride/Riptide (EDSK 7040)
After building his fanbase as a member of The Alan Bown Set, Dada and Vinegar Joe, Robert
Palmer signed a solo deal with Island in 1974. Over the next 11 years, he released eight studio albums and the concert recording Maybe It’s Live, all of which are now made available in four deluxe 2CD packages with bonus tracks, many of them previously unreleased. Palmer died 10 years ago this month at the age of 54 and his Island work is rightly regarded as his best. Early albums Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley and Pressure Drop sold poorly, even though Palmer was on great voice. He upped the ante with Some People Can Do What TheyLike, developing his own distinctive style and nibbling at the singles chart with Man Smart, Woman Smarter and Every Kinda People. 1979’s Secrets and the following year’s Clues saw him take more leaps forward, entering the mainstream with Bad Case Of Loving You, Looking For Clues and Johnny & Mary becoming among his most- loved tracks. His progress seemed to stall with Pride, but Riptide (his last Island album before signing to EMI) was a monster, making the Top 10 in the UK and the US. Home to the iconic Addicted To Love, it was heady stuff.
VARIOUS •Good Vibrations: A Record Shop, A Label, A Film Soundtrack(Big Beat CDWIKD 315)
The soundtrack to the critically acclaimed biopic of Ireland’s ‘godfather of punk’ Terri Hooley,
who set up the Good Vibrations record shop and label during the worst of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Hooley assisted David Holmes in compiling the soundtrack album and provides extensive and informative liner notes. A self-confessed old hippie, Hooley was won over by the energy of punk amidst Ireland’s turmoil, and the album reflects that, including not only Teenage Kicks by his label’s finest, The Undertones, but also the more politically pertinent Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers and Aussie band The Saints’ This Perfect Day, among others. But it doesn’t ignore his more formative years, including his first musical memory, Hank Williams’ I Saw The Light and his Desert Island disc, the dramatic Past, Present & Future by The Shanrgi-Las, as well as reggae, folk and pysch rock too. Overall, a surprisingly eclectic delight.
Contact Karma Bertelsen, 020 7226 7246,
karma.bertelsen@
intentmedia.co.uk
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