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LP version. This is the first-ever release of not ONE but TWO classic Basil Kirchin soundtracks, one from 1965, the other 1971. It's music for strippers, wife-swapping, death, birth, crime and chicken factories. Basil Kirchin is a legendary jazz drummer and grandfather of ambient music. He started his jazz career drumming in his father's jazz band. In the war years, he took over the band and post-war travelled to the East, hung out with the Maharishi, found himself, moved to Australia and finally returned home to the UK in the early 1960s with jazz ideas the likes of which no one else had ever dreamt. He moved into film music composition, library music and special commissions. By the late 1960s, he was experimenting with free jazz, tape manipulations and animal recordings. His series of works entitled Worlds Within Worlds are the first examples of ambient music. Regarded as a musical genius by many of the world's current music geniuses, Basil Kirchin's influence and following grows and grows each day. No one knows how and why drummer and jazzman Basil Kirchin came to write his first-ever soundtrack, but the sounds he created for Primitive London and its images of abattoirs, strip joints, alcoholism, beatniks and peculiar supermarkets are second-to-none. The music is film music but with touches of jazz, drones and oddness, impressive for such an early recording. There's even a tune surprisingly similar to Herrmann's Taxi Driver, a score written over a decade later. Primitive London is notorious as the UK's first and most important "Mondo" movie. The images filmed were strange, sensational, shocking and sleazy, the music harrowing, groovy and hip. This short, and until now unreleased score is accompanied on this release by a soundtrack Kirchin wrote six years later, for a very different kind of London film. Called The Freelance, this rough, tough crime flick is rarely seen, but features lively performances by classic British character actors and a young, impressive Ian McShane. Set in the criminal underworld, Kirchin brought to the screen the sounds of progressive drumming, free jazz and a touch of new decade optimism. The cues are long, develop well and are like no other. Both scores represent important times in Kirchin's musical life; the first score pre-dates his library work, the second comes at a time when this master of modern jazz music and industrial sounds had reached a creative peak. Both scores are unmistakably Kirchin, with his instant, insistent rhythms, memorable melodies and distinctive, strange jazz sounds permeating this entire release. His ever-growing band of fans will love it all. Superb full-color sleeve taken from the original 1965 Primitive London press book.
- Basil Kirchin is the UK's great lost treasure -- the man who invented ambient music. He began film composing in the mid-1960s and experimenting with tape and industrial sounds in the late 1960s. His work is highly sought after by collectors and musicians alike. It is rumoured Jim O'Rourke paid $1000 for a rare Kirchin LP in the past. Basil Kirchin also appears on the legendary Nurse With Wound list of influences.
- Superb full-color sleeve taken from the original 1965 Primitive London press book.
- First-time release for two different but quite stunning Basil Kirchin soundtracks. It doesn't get much better than this.
- "Kirchin's varied output has been cited as an influence by those in the know -- Brian Eno, Broadcast, and Nurse With Wound, among others -- and Trunk's reissues of fascinating, frightening 'journeys' like Quantum and Worlds Within Worlds are helping expose an obscure but nevertheless captivating catalog of music to a wider audience." --Stylus Magazine
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TRACKS
01. Primitive London 1 02:38
02. Primitive London 2 02:06
03. Primitive London 3 02:48
04. Primitive London 4 03:07
05. Primitive London 5 01:16
06. Primitive London 6 01:10
07. The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 1) 04:09
08. The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 2) 04:07
09. The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 3) 09:51
10. The Freelance (Abstract Jazz 4) 07:41
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