A Trunk Records Poll

Sorry, I missed the Blood On Satan's Claw soundtrack. There's about 12 of these I could vote for.

Probably the er populist choice but it has to be Dity Fan Male by a fair stretch. Psychomania has some awesome jams on it tho and the Ivor The Engine / Pogleswood music is great, but that's not out yet

Naah, it's the Clangers ftw!

surely abstractions of the industrial north is the heavyweight contender here. mind you the clangers soundtrack does rule.

It comes down to Wicker Man vs Desmond Leslie for me, with Leslie edging ahead by not being deleted from the catalog before I could get a copy.

I love everything I've heard, though. Anyone read/stared at Trunk's The Music Library book?

Voted for 'UFO', even though I don't own it. Still hoping, ever more folornly, for a CD edition.

"Music For Biscuits" is the best of the ones I do own.

ooops i forgot the wicker man. i think basil kirchin might still edge it for me though. by the way does anyone know if trunk are likely to issue kirchin's worlds within worlds? the library music book is crammed fill of wonderful

I went for Dawn Of The Dead, but could easily have been any of :

Magnet & Paul Giovanni - The Wicker Man
Vernon Elliot - Clangers (Original Television Music)
Wisbey - Dirty Fan Male
John Cameron - Psychomania
Basil Kirchin - Quantum
Basil Kirchin - Charcoal Sketches / States Of Mind
Basil Kirchin - Abstractions Of The Industrial North
Desmond Leslie - Music Of The Future
Various - The Tomorrow People (Original Television Music)

Anyone heard Fuzzy Felt Folk? The Bod album is good, but more like a radio show documentary (since there's only about 5 minutes of actual music available).

All the Kirchin stuff is wonderful, and The Tomorrow People is pretty special too. Great label!

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Oh hell, I totally missed this. I am sad. Consider this an additional vote for the evergreen classic that is Dirty Fan Male if you must.

Bod.

This is pretty good http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=98436

"Led by Herbie Hancock, this 'Prayer ceremony in jazz' was recorded and released privately in New York during 1968, featuring performances by Jerome Richardson, Jonathan Klein, Thad Jones, Ron Carter and Grady Tate, with readings by Rabbi David Davis and sung texts from soprano Antonia Lavanne and Contralto Phyllis Bryn-Julson. This album provides a very different slant on what we'd normally associate with the spiritual jazz genre: far from being an almost psychedlic, transcendental listening experience, this album fuses the modernity of urban jazz with the devotional words and ideologies of Judaism, and while on paper that sounds ever so slightly ludicrous, the record itself is very beautiful and without doubt amongst the more accessible 'obscure' jazz reissues you're likely to encounter."

the two forthcoming John Baker cds look interesting (first contains a lot of his Radiophonic Workshop recordings and the second his soundtracks and adverts)

http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/john_baker.shtml

I would've voted for Basil Kirchin Quantum

has anyone heard kirchin's worlds within worlds? or know of what form it has ever been released? i like quantum well enough but it sounds very self consciously out there next to abstractions

ya, i've got one of the worlds within worlds records. it's fantastic, imo, but if you don't like the out there quality of quantum this is a whole level up in intensity. not sure when or if it will be reissued. last time i emailed trunk he said he had no plans. the original vinyl is all that exists, and the pressing isn't that great.

were they a series then? i'd love to hear them...i need to listen to quantum again soon, i think i perhaps found it a bit indigestible after abstractions and sketches ( did i read somewhere that charcoal sketches were out takes from ws within ws?)

i'm referring to the 3/4 WWW record on island. i saw the other 4/4 on ebay once, which i believe came out on cbs (?) but have never seen or heard a rip of it, nor heard from someone who has. not sure if this was actually a series or what. i think quantum was just made around the same time...

quantum was a big time grower for me. you should definitely return to it.

Looks a nice artefact: http://www.ysp.co.uk/shop/product/jonny-hannah-songs-from-the-mermaid-cafe-cd

New version: http://www.stjudesprints.co.uk/products/songs-from-the-mermaid-cafe-jukebox-2nd-edition?mc_cid=8ef76bd138&mc_eid=2c87efb7fa

jonny trunks own album is now one of his 50p specials.
along with the soundtrack for 'the day the earth stood still'.
damn good value for money if you ask me.