Hatfield and The North - Hatwise Choice - Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1 (2005)
Artist: Hatfield and The North
Title: Hatwise Choice - Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Canterbury
Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:08:46
Total Size: 443 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Hatwise Choice - Archive Recordings 1973-1975, Volume 1
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Canterbury
Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:08:46
Total Size: 443 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Absolutely Wholesome (John Peel Show 1974) (3:16)
2. La Barbe est La Barbe (Top Gear 1974) (6:51)
3. Sober Song (Top Gear 1974) (2:59)
4. Hatitude (John Peel Show 1974) (3:13)
5. Strand on the Green (John Peel Show 1974) (1:02)
6. Hotel Luna (John Peel Show 1974) (3:34)
7. The Lonely Bubbling Song (John Peel Show 1974) (1:20)
8. Stay Jung and Beautiful (John Peel Show 1974) (0:56)
9. Dave Intro (Live - London 1975) (1:55)
10. Take Your Pick (Live - London 1975) (8:09)
11. Son Of Plate Smashing Dog (Live - Emmen 1974) (1:16)
12. Thanks Mont! (Live - Emmen 1974) (2:27)
13. Amsterdamage 11/19 (Live - Amsterdam 1974) (6:20)
14. May The Farce Be With You (Live - Paris 1973) (0:39)
15. Finesse is for Fairies (Sounds Of The 70s 1973) (1:28)
16. Ethanol Nurse (Sounds Of The 70s 1973) (2:56)
17. Writhing and Grimacing (Sounds Of The 70s 1973) (3:42)
18. For Robert (Top Gear 1973) (2:09)
19. Blane over Paris (Live - Paris 1973) (6:20)
20. Laundry Soup (Top Gear 1974) (0:57)
21. Effing Mad Aincha (Live - Rotterdam 1973) (2:58)
22. Top Gear Commercial (Top Gear 1974) (1:22)
23. K Licks (Demo - Summer 1973) (2:58)
Line-up:
Richard Sinclair / bass, vocals
Phil Miller / guitars
Pip Pyle / drums, percussion
Dave Stewart / keyboards, tone generator
Hatwise Choice is made up of almost 70 minutes of unreleased material. The content comes from live concert tapes as well as BBC radio recordings, the latter taken from the band's four John Peel sessions.
This album is the first ever retrospective of Hatfield and the North, a band that brought together four top musicians and let them give vent to some music that was certainly never mainstream. This digipak contains an extensive booklet with notes by Jonathan Coe (who loved the band so much that he nicked the title of one of their albums for a book, which has recently been dramatised on TV, ‘The Rotter’s Club’), as well as copious notes from all four band members themselves saying how the band was formed and what it was like to be in it etc. Musically this album contains 23 songs, roughly half of them being live concert recordings and the other half being taken from the four sessions that they undertook for Radio One. With ex-members of Gong, Egg, Matching Mole and Caravan (among others) this was always going to be a band that was eclectic to say the least. There was a jazz feeling to much of what they were doing, and what this CD captures so well is the improvisational feel of their performances. They would take the original tune and then go off and hopefully meet together at the end (in the sleeve notes Dave says that they played too fast, too loud and too much but that something special often came out of it).
This is music that thirty years on still has a lot to say and is as valid and exciting now as it was at the time. This is only available through Burning Shed so for more details visit www.burningshed.com. With the amount of detail and photos in the booklet this is a great release that fans old and new will have to search out.
This album is the first ever retrospective of Hatfield and the North, a band that brought together four top musicians and let them give vent to some music that was certainly never mainstream. This digipak contains an extensive booklet with notes by Jonathan Coe (who loved the band so much that he nicked the title of one of their albums for a book, which has recently been dramatised on TV, ‘The Rotter’s Club’), as well as copious notes from all four band members themselves saying how the band was formed and what it was like to be in it etc. Musically this album contains 23 songs, roughly half of them being live concert recordings and the other half being taken from the four sessions that they undertook for Radio One. With ex-members of Gong, Egg, Matching Mole and Caravan (among others) this was always going to be a band that was eclectic to say the least. There was a jazz feeling to much of what they were doing, and what this CD captures so well is the improvisational feel of their performances. They would take the original tune and then go off and hopefully meet together at the end (in the sleeve notes Dave says that they played too fast, too loud and too much but that something special often came out of it).
This is music that thirty years on still has a lot to say and is as valid and exciting now as it was at the time. This is only available through Burning Shed so for more details visit www.burningshed.com. With the amount of detail and photos in the booklet this is a great release that fans old and new will have to search out.
