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album info
It was three years since the release of Exclusive Blend
Volume 2, but it was worth the wait. If you own both Volumes 1 and 2,
you will know they are both on different tips - Volume 1 is a more up-tempo
pop flavour of hammond-driven dancefloor jazz, while Volume 2 is a little
slower, with a slightly more sophisticated 'soundtrack' edge. Similarly,
Volume 3 will try to introduce something a little different again. This
sixteen track album, was compiled in Paris from the late 60's and early
70's vaults of France's Telemusic Library, by Blow Up's Paul Tunkin, .
The album was preceded by a limited 7" single (as part of the new 'Blow
Up 45 Series') taken from the album - Guy Pedersen's smokey sitar
haze that is 'Indian Pop Bass.'
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track listing
- Pretexte Pour Indicatifs Guy Pedersen (1.24)
Telemusic (p) 1972
- Vertigo Leitymotiv Bernard Estardy (3.40)
Telemusic (p) 1970
- Flutes Ad Libitum Raymond
Guiot & Guy Pedersen (2.44)
Telemusic (p) 1971
- Indian Pop Bass Raymond
Guiot & Guy Pedersen (3.05)
Telemusic (p) 1970
- Les Copains de la Basse Guy
Pedersen (2.33)
Telemusic (p) 1970
- Bass In Love Guy Pedersen (3.31)
Telemusic (p) 1972
- Primitive Spirit Raymond
Guiot (2.59)
Telemusic (p) 1971
- African King Andre
Arpino (1.54)
Telemusic (p) 197?
- Bass Session Guy Pedersen (2.27)
Telemusic (p) 1970
- Bass Dancing Raymond
Guiot (3.47)
Telemusic (p) 1972
- Emeute A Tokyo (Kitch Kat) Bernard
Estardy (2.24)
Telemusic (p) 1972
- Road Number 9 Bernard
Estardy (2.25)
Telemusic (p) 1974
- Riviera Express Bernard
Estardy (4.08)
Telemusic (p) 1973
- Bahia Bossa Nova Bernard
Lubat (1.48)
Telemusic (p) 1970
- Kermesse Non Heroique Guy
Pedersen (13.16)
Telemusic (p) 1972
- Virtueuse Reveuse Paul
Piot (2.44)
Telemusic (p) 1972
sleeve notes
"So finally here we are at round three of the Exclusive
Blend Series. It's been a long time, well why the wait you may ask? Well
after the success of the previous two volumes we've been sunning ourselves
on distant shores, borrowing billionaire's yachts in the Mediterranean
finding it all just a little too damn hard to get heads down to some serious
vault trawling for undiscovered musical gems. Ok, maybe forget about the
sun, boating, and the money at that. Let's just have the soundtrack to
the high-life instead, it's taken a long time but all the best things
are worth waiting for.
Into the heart of Paris 1999, Le Gard du Nord via Eurostar straight over
to Telemusic HQ for a two day search. French music library Telemusic issued
its first recordings in 1968, which have covered a wealth of musical styles
over the past few decades. The eclectic nature, as is common with most
of the music libraries was to accomodate the varied requirements of essentially
TV, Radio and Film synchronisation. My search was for recordings from
the lare Sixties to the early Seventies, focusing on the dancefloor element
of Telemusic's Jazz and R'n'B recordings with some Gallic soundtrack vibes
thrown in for good measure.
Comprising mainly of instrumental compositions that vary from Guy Pedersen
's funky wah wah workout of Les Coplains De La Basse to Paul Piot's Serge
Gainsberg girly vocal sounding Virtueuse Reveuse, this album features
some of France's greatest Jazz, R'n'B, Pop musicians and writers of the
time including Bernard Estardy and Raymond Guiot. So until next time,
au revoir."
paul tunkin, September 2000
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