The Complete De Wolfe Sessions | Boxset : Clamshell

Initially coming together during a Fontana-era lull in The Pretty Things? prodigious career, the band?s now-legendary body of work for music library de Wolfe as The Electric Banana saw their alter-egos become parallel universe superstars, their work utilised by film and TV producers in everything from soft-porn skin-flicks, a Norman Wisdom vehicle and horror classic Dawn Of The Dead to small-screen ratings winners like Dr. Who, The Sweeney and Minder.In the Sixties, the Banana recordings mirrored British pop?s gradual evolution into rock, courtesy of brass-led Swinging London ravers (?Walking Down The Street?, ?Danger Signs?), primal garage punk (?Street Girl?, ?Love Dance And Sing?) and maximum psychedelia (?Eagle?s Son?, ?Alexander?). They switched gears again in the Seventies, confidently mixing swaggering bar-band hard rockers (?The Loser?, ?Sweet Orphan Lady?), putative terrace-anthems (?Whiskey Song?), metal-based rock (?Maze Song?, the Hendrix tribute ?James Marshall?) and jangly, Byrds-inflected power pop (?Do My Stuff?).Taken from the original master-tapes, the 3-CD set The Complete De Wolfe Sessions represents a number of firsts: the first-ever legitimate CD issue of these recordings (authorised by both The Pretty Things and de Wolfe), the first time that the Banana?s Sixties and Seventies work has been made available under one roof, and the first time that the karaoke-anticipating backing tracks have been made commercially available.Housed in a clamshell box that

Tracks

1~1~If I Needed Somebody
1~2~Free Love
1~3~Cause I?M A Man
1~4~Danger Signs
1~5~Walking Down The Street (Inst.)
1~6~If I Needed Somebody (Inst.)
1~7~Free Love (Inst.)
1~8~Cause I?M A Man (Inst.)
1~9~Danger Signs (Inst.)
1~10~I See You
1~11~Street Girl
1~12~Grey Skies
1~13~I Love You
1~14~Love Dance And Sing
1~15~A Thousand Ages From The Sun
1~16~I See You (Inst.)
1~17~Street Girl (Inst.)
1~18~Grey Skies (Inst.)
1~19~I Love You (Inst.)
1~20~Love Dance And Sign (Inst.)
1~21~A Thousand Ages From The Sun (Inst.)
1~22~Alexander
1~23~It?Ll Never Be Me
1~24~Eagle?S Son
1~25~Blow Your Mind
1~26~What?S Good For The Goose
1~27~Rave Up
1~28~Alexander (Inst.)
1~29~It?Ll Never Be Me (Inst.)
1~30~Eagle?S Son (Inst.)

Details

Format: CD
Artist: The Electric Banana
Release Date: 27 September 2019
Genre: Folk
Label: GRAPEFRUIT
Distributor: Rocket Group