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| Brasilia Mission - Tony Hatch - 1969 |
Label: Pye NSPL 18303 (UK)
Format: LP
From: UK
My rating: 6/10
Entered: 09/05/2004
Last updated: 09/05/2004
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Search on GEMM |  | I don’t think any Tony Hatch albums are going to live up to what my expectations once were for them. I was dreaming of something really rich – layered strings and solid percussion. I’ve known for some time that the records aren’t really like this. But they’re not bad at all.
In a nutshell, this is pleasant piano-led orchestral easy listening without much of a bite. It’s nicely arranged and can be really quite tasty when the songs are good, recalling Dudley Moore’s work on the quieter Bedazzled tracks. ‘On a clear day’, ‘Love song’, ‘The dangerous age’ all come across very well. ‘Wichita Lineman’ and ‘Light my fire’ are good too, although I’ve heard too much of these songs recently to be too impressed. ‘Endora’ is a Tony Hatch ‘original’ which bears more than a passing resemblance to Joao Donato’s ‘Amazonas’. And it’s all the better for it!
The album concludes with ‘Brasilia Mission’, a simple but very catch track with similar instrumentation to the rest of the album, but slightly jazzier piano. |
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