| | On The Brink: Return Of The Instro-Hipsters CD - Import
This collection of vintage mid-1960s British instrumentals by some of the best-known session musicians of the era blends blues, soul, jazz, pop, and more esoteric styles in a heady, often kitsch-sounding set that evokes all the breathless excitement of Swinging London. Highlights include the keyboard player Wynder K. Frog's cover of the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm a Man," as well as organist Dave Davani's hep original theme tune for the British TV chart show TOP OF THE POPS.
2007 issued collection of 20 previously uncomped and absolutely superb UK instrumentals from the 60's and early 70's. Here are session men discovering sitars, orchestras getting into the freaky side of things, hip theme tunes, Hammonds, fuzz, brass. Somehow sophisticated and cheesy simultaneously, these acts created their own musical world of Chelsea apartments, mini-mokes, dark velvet bespoke tailoring and the dolliest birds this side of Battersea Bridge. Welcome to the soundtrack of your own unmade Swinging London movie.
Liner Note Author: Nick Saloman. On The Brink: Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Music On The Brink: Return Of The Instro-Hipsters Songs | 1. | On the Brink - Mike Vickers |
| 2. | She Walks Through the Fair - Jim Sullivan Sound |
| 3. | It's Your Thing - Shock Absorbers |
| 4. | I'm a Man - Wynder K. Frog |
| 5. | Sexologie - Rita |
| 6. | Small Deal - Offside |
| 7. | Big Drum - Les Reed Et Son Orchestre |
| 8. | See Me - David Smith |
| 9. | Soul Thing - Keith Mansfield |
| 10. | Top of the Pops - Dave Davani |
| 11. | Happy Walk - Fidd |
| 12. | Mexican Flier - Ken Woodman's Piccadilly Brass/Various Artists |
| 13. | Nightrider - The John Schroeder Orchestra |
| 14. | Moanin' - Trax 4 Daze/Various Artists |
| 15. | Soul Serenade - The Mike Cotton Sound |
| 16. | Deadly Nightshade - Lee Mason/Various Artists |
| 17. | West of Windward - Vic Flick/Various Artists |
| 18. | Morning Train - Chris Barber Soul Band/Various Artists |
| 19. | Tricycle - Brian Bennett/Various Artists |
| 20. | Organ Fantasia in D Major - Stanley Myers/Various Artists |
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