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THE PICCADILLY RECORDS COLLECTION OF THE YEAR 2024
From Dusk, through to Dawn. A collection to accompany the change of the fields, the coastline the colour of the sky outside your window as you take your journey. From the compiler of Music For The Stars comes the next collection for Brighton label Two-Piers. Featuring artists such as J.J Cale, Chris & Cosey, The B-52s, The Asphodells, Bob Lind, Linda Perhacs and The Menahan Steet Band.
…This choice of tracks is just one journey, a celebration of the the beauty created by musicians, the space & sound, the dark & light.
All aboard….The Night Train.
Well, Brighton’s Two-Piers Records are just such folk. Not content with curating my favourite compilation of last year (‘Music For The Stars’) they’ve only gone and topped it with this beautiful double album which collects all sorts of music spanning from 1968 to 2019 and presents it as an enchanted trip through the cosmos as we travel space and time aboard the Night Train. As Bob Lind so poetically croons, in “City Scenes”, this trip will take us…
“Through the tangled wispy worries of another night / In my freely fashioned destiny I search the night / For seas of light / To sail my lovely dreams…”
The record begins with heaving sleepers and a frantic bell (some lonely midwest railroad immediately springs to mind) clanging as the Night Train rattles into the station. We’re off into 1970 with a deep, groovy version of Jackson C Frank’s “Milk And Honey”, some heady HP Lovecraft and then my own personal gem The Rationals’ “Glowin’” (1969) which is just majestic. What’s immediately apparent is that although most of this music is moody and introspective, it also grooves. Everything is gently funky on the (er) undercarriage whether that’s late 60s / early 70s hippy music or the glacial splendour of the middle of the compilation’s electronic dance’n’sparkle. In this part you have Andrew Weatherall, Chris & Cosey, and a little known beautiful cosmic electro track by an act called Nine Circles along with the shimmering glory of Tangerine Dream’s “Love On A Real Train”. As we move towards the end a song which sounds like a lost soul classic but is actually by a modern collective called Menahan Street Band just astonishes.
This compilation will not be found on streaming platforms; you have to own a physical copy if you like the sound of this record. Again, something which increases my love for these things. It’s unique.
From Dusk, through to Dawn. A collection to accompany the change of the fields, the coastline the colour of the sky outside your window as you take your journey. From the compiler of Music For The Stars comes the next collection for Brighton label Two-Piers. Featuring artists such as J.J Cale, Chris & Cosey, The B-52s, The Asphodells, Bob Lind, Linda Perhacs and The Menahan Steet Band.
…This choice of tracks is just one journey, a celebration of the the beauty created by musicians, the space & sound, the dark & light.
All aboard….The Night Train.
STAFF COMMENTS
Andy says: Some purists get a bit sniffy about compilation albums; how dare someone claim to know more exotic, rare tracks than me, I’ll do my own crate digging thank you very much! Safe to say I am not one of these folk! A lot of time and a lot of genuine love has gone into collecting then sequencing these musical journeys, themed collections that whisk you away to somewhere fantastical, somewhere other…..Well, Brighton’s Two-Piers Records are just such folk. Not content with curating my favourite compilation of last year (‘Music For The Stars’) they’ve only gone and topped it with this beautiful double album which collects all sorts of music spanning from 1968 to 2019 and presents it as an enchanted trip through the cosmos as we travel space and time aboard the Night Train. As Bob Lind so poetically croons, in “City Scenes”, this trip will take us…
“Through the tangled wispy worries of another night / In my freely fashioned destiny I search the night / For seas of light / To sail my lovely dreams…”
The record begins with heaving sleepers and a frantic bell (some lonely midwest railroad immediately springs to mind) clanging as the Night Train rattles into the station. We’re off into 1970 with a deep, groovy version of Jackson C Frank’s “Milk And Honey”, some heady HP Lovecraft and then my own personal gem The Rationals’ “Glowin’” (1969) which is just majestic. What’s immediately apparent is that although most of this music is moody and introspective, it also grooves. Everything is gently funky on the (er) undercarriage whether that’s late 60s / early 70s hippy music or the glacial splendour of the middle of the compilation’s electronic dance’n’sparkle. In this part you have Andrew Weatherall, Chris & Cosey, and a little known beautiful cosmic electro track by an act called Nine Circles along with the shimmering glory of Tangerine Dream’s “Love On A Real Train”. As we move towards the end a song which sounds like a lost soul classic but is actually by a modern collective called Menahan Street Band just astonishes.
This compilation will not be found on streaming platforms; you have to own a physical copy if you like the sound of this record. Again, something which increases my love for these things. It’s unique.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Edward Hollcraft – South Bound Amtrak 716
A2. J.J. Cale – Cherry
A3. Bonnie Dobson – Milk & Honey
A4. H.P. Lovecraft – Spin Spin Spin
A5. The Rationals – Glowin’
A6. Linda Perhacs – Hey, Who Really Cares
B1. B-52’s – Deep Sleep
B2. Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars
B3. The Asphodells – Another Lonely City
B4. Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train
C1. Chris & Cosey – Dancing Ghosts
C2. Johnny Harris – Fragments Of Fear
C3. Bill Frisell – 1968
C4. Bob Lind – City Scenes
D1. Tony Joe White – Rainy Night In Georgia
D2. Menahan Street Band – There’s A New Day Coming
D4. The Byrds – Goin’ Back
D5. Earth, Wind & Fire – Drum Song
D6. Leon Russell – Out In The Woods