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v/a - britxotica goes east! : persian pop and casbah jazz from the wild british isles!' - trunk - vinyl

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Genre: World - Misc

1. Beverly Sisters - Sphinx Won't Tell
2. Chico Arnez - Yashmak
3. Stanley Black - Caravan
4. Johnny Keating & The Z-Men - Four Beats To The Casbah
5. Charles Blackwell - Persian Twist
6. Philip Green & His Mayfair Orchestra - Baghdad Bazaar
7. Kenny Day - Sheik Of Morocco
8. Tony Osborne - Marrakesh
9. Yana - Climb Up The Wall
10. Stanley Black - Miserlou
11. Johnny Keating Kombo - Delilah's Theme
12. Laurie Johnson - Call Of The Casbah
13. Roy Tierney - Lonely One
14. Tony Osborne - Turkish Coffee
15. Reg Owen - Kazoo
16. Ray Ellington - The Sultan Of Bezaaz

A breathtaking follow-up to the successful Britxotica! LP takes us on a magic carpet ride to a place where the Sphinx, sheiks, sand dances and caravans of camels are the magical, musical norm. But this is music made by post war jazz musicians and show girls from London !

Britxotica! (pronounced “Britzotica”) neatly describes an odd and yet undocumented pre-Beatles British musical scene where famed UK composers as well as unknown singers and bandleaders threw convention on holiday and went wild wild wild! For this, Part Two in the Britxotica series we head to the mystic East for tales of yashmaks, Turkish coffee and bizarre belly dances.

Comes with a superb lost recording of Caravan, an insane Eastern Kazoo number, several fierce instrumental dance numbers (one penned by Basil Kirchin!) that will get you sand dancing all over the shop, PLUS charismatic vocal cues about pyramids, late night Desert tristes and outrageous Sutlans. This is an amazing compilation of British music so obscure and rare that only Trunk Records could find and package it so superbly and with such effortless and comedic style