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Favorite Music Interludes on Classic Albums

by Tom at Capo Fetish

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=W83PKorwPHM

Excerpt, from about 5:57 to 8:23:
"Now there's this band called Hatfield and the North that a lot of Prog Rock people don't really talk about too much; they're more jazz fusion. They came out of the Canterbury Scene. The bass player, Richard Sinclair, he was in Caravan. Hatfield and the North had two albums, one just titled "Hatfield and the North" but their second album is just a stone cold masterpiece called "The Rotters' Club." Every track on this is just absolutely amazing, and on side two there's a track called "Mumps" that takes up most of the side. It's like about 17 minutes long. When it kicks off, it kicks off with these three female singers, and their names are Barbara Gaskin, Amanda Parsons and Anne Rosenthal. They're known as on the album as the Northettes. What they do at the start of the song is they're singing this really, really almost angelic way. They're harmonizing together, it's the most beautiful, beautiful track. The track-if you can believe it-is called "Your Majesty is Like a Cream Donut," right? So what they do is they outline the entire melody of the song, the main melody of the song with just their "Ahs" and "Ooos." It's like angels singing from above. It's just the most amazing thing. It's like this interlude, and once it fades out, it kicks into the full song with the whole band, the electric guitar, acoustic, well not electric guitar, but the drums, the bass, the organ, the whole thing. What they do is they counteract her vocal, their vocal, the three ladies, throughout the entire 17-minute track. They're just going, they're kind of returning to that melody that they initially sung in the beginning, and it's just the most incredible track, but the way it starts off with these three ladies, these three backup singers singing, is just the most amazing gorgeous thing. I highly recommend this record. If you've never heard this record, it is just most amazing jazz fusion record of all time. Everything about it, it's great to listen to on headphones. It's just the way the tracks flow into one another, but this, as I would say, this interlude at the start of the song "Mumps" is one of the most beautiful interludes I've ever heard in my life. This is from Hatfield in the North, the album's called "The Rotters' Club," came out in 1975, and if you've never heard this album, check it out. It is the most incredible album."
- Tom

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released March 15, 2024

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Richard Sinclair Martina Franca, Italy

The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies few can match, plus an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar. ... more

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