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alan parker - one summer - finders keepers - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Soundtracks

1. One Summer (Billy & Icky)
2. Billy & Joe
3. The Tollbooth
4. Kidder's Cottage
5. Benllech Mountain
6. Icky
7. Southport
8. Rollercoaster
9. Tension
10. Lime Street - End Titles
11. Please Close The Gate

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.