ONE SUMMER by ALAN PARKER
| SKU | 88577 |
| Artist | ALAN PARKER |
| Title | ONE SUMMER |
| Label | FINDERS KEEPERS |
| Catalog # | FKSP 009 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 21 - 2016 |
| Format | Vinyl - UK7' |
| EAN Barcode | 5060099506192 |
| Import | |
| € 12,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- One Summer (Billy & Icky)
- Billy & Joe
- The Tollbooth
- Kidder's Cottage
- Benllech Mountain
- Icky
- Southport
- Rollercoaster
- Tension
- Lime Street - End Titles
- Please Close The Gate
Description
Previously unreleased schizo post-punk/Moogy folk score to 1983 British TV Scouse-ploitation drama One Summer (remember Billy and Icky?) from the vault of Kate Bush, Serge Gainsbourg and David Bowie’s best-kept secret session man Alan Parker.Inducing abject fear in protective parents and a street smart swagger amongst clued-up youths, this adaptation of a coming of age pastoral thriller by a reluctant Willy Russell broke new boundaries pinpointing a cultural teenage void between post punk activism and the acid house years while arguably giving Thatcherite telly addicts a tiny kick up the arse.
Scored by legendary KPM/De Wolfe library musician Alan Parker, this score retains a genre defying personality, pinpointing the stylistic essence of the era while successfully switching from barren Rumble Fish funk, pastoral Moog noodlings, Pentangular folk, 80’s post-punk rhythms with hints of dubby melodica/harmonica. Composed to cue for the short five-part series (that TV commissioners were too scared to revisit), Parkers bursts of self-propelled small screen scoring came in one to two minute spells allowing Finders Keepers to comfortably fit the entire soundtrack on one neat eleven track limited 7” EP thirty-three years down the train line.
