LOOKING BACK IN A FUNNY WAY: Vinyl LP

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Label: Trunk Records
Release Date: 6th November

Celebrating 30 years of Trunk Records a supremely British reissue label who gave us the first Wicker Man reissue, bought the Kes soundtrack back from the dead, released an album of computer keyboard sounds (more satisfying and hypnotic than you'd believe) and more essential far flung releases from British jazz to Library to disco and beyond. If it's esoteric, from a quirky, seedy and oddly charming lost corner of British life, Trunk have been repping it for 3 decades. This comp pulls together some of their great and unheard releases.

Trunk Records was started 30 years ago. It quickly established itself as a unique and
highly influential label finding the unfound, the unthinkable and the forgotten
sounds of the past. Here we celebrate 30 years of the label, by issuing amazing music
it has not released yet. Of course we do.
Trunk Records began in 1996. It was the first label to issue non commercial library
music to the public. It was the first label to chase, find and issue The Wicker Man
soundtrack, the first to issue the sounds of computer keyboards and even
announcements from train buffet cars.
Movements like “Hauntology” and “Folk Horror” all began thanks to the music issued
by Trunk Records. And here we are, 30 years on, and we think it is time for a 30 years
anniversary LP.
Unlike the 25th anniversary double LP, we are not issuing music we have issued
before. Instead, here we are issuing music we have not issued before. What better
way to sum up such an important and unique label better than continuing where we
first began.
Tracks include some unreleased Roger Webb slow sex disco, scatty breakbeat library,
psychedelics from Gabo Szabo’s backing group (The Advancement), groovy jazz from
Pittsburg (The Silhouettes), Basil Kirchin’s unreleased electronic experimental thing
(it is very much “a thing”). Some outsider singing from a hippie who lived in Drop
City, a flexi disc selling you the Milton Keynes shopping centre and of course some
improvised jazz for children’s dance workshops. And more too. And all on one LP.
TRACKLISTING:
Side One: Walking On The Dark Side - Peter Beasson / Jacques Hendrix , Stone Folk -
The Advancement , Watch The Waters Flow - Ananda Thalia , Lunar Invasion - The
Silhouettes Brass Tones - Delia Derbyshire / Elsa Stansfield , Bowskill Tape 1-1 -
Coleridge Goode
Side Two: Central Milton Keynes - Ronnie Bond, Electronic Instrument Tape - Basil
Kirchin, La Même Chose - Roger Webb, One Day Last Summer - St Mary’s Secondary,
Rimmer Tape - John Cameron