Various Artists - Praise Poems, Vol. 8 [2LP]

Tramp Records

£21.60

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: TRLP9103
Barcode: 5050580766266
Release Date: 04 Feb 2022
Genre: Vocal Jazz

01: Bobby Cole A Perfect Day03:35
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02: Helmut Pistor's Big Rock Jazz Band There's A Promise For The Future02:56
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03: Ladykiller Mercy Mercy Mercy05:14
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04: Portraits in Sound It's Time For Music03:33
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05: Sebastian Good Time City Nights03:43
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06: Harve and Charee Got To Turn Away03:15
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07: Allison & Shaffer Moon Madness03:01
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08: Klaas Craats Six Water Gardens Of The Moon03:26
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09: Gemini If You're So Smart03:13
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10: Flash Around This Time02:47
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11: Garndarf Song For A Girl03:36
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12: Fang Buzbee & Sutton Frozen Love03:16
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13: Penn Central Make It Happen04:18
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14: The Menagerie They All Seem To Know04:00
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15: Hans Hass Welche Farbe Hat Der Wind04:33
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16: Ron & Sally Price California Feeling03:10
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17: Kris 'n Dale Memory Shelf04:15
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18: David White I Want To Have You A Long Time03:29
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19: Vision Girl We Really Done It This Time

After 6 years and 7 volumes, the Tramp Records crew invites you to join them on yet another enlightening journey into soulful Jazz, Folk and Funk from the 1970s.

This 8th volume contains nineteen Jazz, Soul and Folk nuggets from between the late 1960s and the late 1970s. One of the many highlights is the opening track by Bobby Cole which is most likely one of the finest independently produced vocal jazz recordings ever put on wax. So true. Oscar Brown Jr. and Mark Murphy sends its regards. But that's just the beginning. Praise Poems Vol.8 covers a wide selection of genres, from big band jazz (Helmut Pistor's Big Rock Jazz Band and Germany's own Ladykiller) to psych-pop (Portraits in Sound, Harve and Charee and Allison & Shaffer), from folk-rock (Flash, Garndarf and the incredible Fang Buzbee) to AOR (The Menagerie and Penn Central), completing the set with a handful of melancholic folk beauties, most notably Hans Hass Jr.'s mind-blowing "Welche Farbe hat der Wind".

Very few compilation series' release as many as eight volumes and those that get that far often start to run out of quality music or meander too far from their original artistic direction. That certainly is not the case with the "Praise Poems" series which leaps from strength-to-strength as our team of compilers and researchers continue to unearth lost and often overlooked music from an era long gone. Many of these records were released in small quantities as private pressings or by small regional labels. Obviously, those labels neither had the budget, expertise, nor options to promote their releases in a sweeping way. Therefore the majority of these artists failed to find the wider audience their music so richly deserved.

Key selling points:

- deluxe vinyl LP with detailed liner notes and unseen photographs
- the vinyl LP comes with a full album download code
- ALL but two songs appear on CD/Vinyl-LP/digital for the very first-time