Track ID: Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot

fuck if i know what the track was called. it's CALYPSO btw.

listen here: http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/7010.shtml

"it was the trumpet line that did it. nevermind chasing after etheral angels or earthly skirt. chase that tune, scour the shacks, pester the sound boys"

i guess it functions as a sort of therapy for weatherall. first by allowing him to reconnect with the grubby ground-level roots of soundboys and acetate cut in backyard sheds. second, by relating his need to "chase that tune" ("loaded"?) to the more universal crate digging impulse. he sort of integrates these two urges by using the hook from a 30s calypso tune about drug addiction to anchor the central song on what i've always regarded as his "comedown" album, not so much in the sense of post-club comedown but more in the context of the serious drug rehab he was going through (or had just finished, i guess)

unfortunaetly its not the version i heard, which had no piano but a rhytmic tuba. im also not sure if there was any singing.

the orig track is "bucovina" by ian oliver feat. shantel, as somewhat redundantly detailed here:

sabres of paradise - "wilmot" ... ian oliver feat. shantel - "bucovina" ... mighty dub katz - "son of wilmot" ... ??? ... ???

meaning the track that's the answer to the orig poster's question

it's on a copmpilation called balkan bangers and gypsy beats

http://www.zshare.net/info.html?14140079-f4f10a72407d9c07186d7f6281ad30eb

maceo - crack dat wilmot

made this track a couple years ago

nice! on my way home now. i still want to hear that sped-up latin version, it's probably one of the bazillion remixes of bucovina

haha e that's good

sorry orig poster thing is just shantel (2003), not ian oliver, i am 1x idiot

A+ ethan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuVt2Qq6-ro&feature=player_embedded

So did Wilmouth Houdini do the actual original tune or what? Incidentally his version of Rum & Coca-Cola was my favourite old song of 2011.

as far as i can tell he wrote the track although he has a few that sound exactly like that one^ bar the lyrics.

Single version (of the SoP track) >>>>>>>>> album version.

Seriously does anyone rate the album version? It's like the single version emaciated. They start off the same but after the first minute the album version does the re-rewind thing and then... nothing, except the main horn theme and the bassline. No organ counterpart, no guitar, no lunatic scatting, and no spiralling drum fill. Never really listened to the album before so it was a weird (though easily rectified) disappointment when it came up on spotify discover.

god, i used to listen to this on a loop. yes, the lp version is denuded of everything that makes the single version so triumphant and messed up.

fuck why did you have bring up wilmot.

I like the album version and think it fits better - the single version would be too jarring in the context of the rest of the album, though its one of the weaker tracks on there

This album holds up really well for me, particularly the last few tracks

I see your point. Don't know what to do if I play the album again - which I probably will. Might have to skip it and have a separate Wilmot moment another time.

Credible hypothesis: 'Theme' is responsible for the rise of Mark Ronson and his ilk?

cannot recommend the shantel version highly enough, it has become my favorite version of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbClX9AAYr4

huh, i love this track but didn't know there was much in the two versions.

lol - "the way" by fastball is basically a pub-rock version of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wfu3tOrtQ

god the shantel song still slays

the tambourine coming in around :50 is honestly one of my all-time "yippeeeeeeeee" moments, just massive grin no matter where i am

bumping this

Wilmoth Houdini's Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo (cf. vahid upthread) uses the same melody but the trumpet sample (or recreation of) comes from his Black but Sweet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxS3g3XHV34

I leave it to someone else to determine how many other of his songs use the melody.