The Crunch

this sort of de-necessitates Add N To X and Goldfrapp a quarter century ahead of schedule

synthglam trudge-funk bovver-boogie

what it reminds me of is "Spirit in the Sky" with a smear of futurity over the bluesy shuffle





context




me old mate Paul Oldfield points out this as a cousin to the Rah Band tune



that's the same Smoke as in "my friend jack eats sugarlumps"

But back to the RAH band - who i had always thought of (based on their 1980s stuff) as a jazz-funk group

well it's not a band at all, it's a bloke - a studio entity (Richard Anthony Hewson - R.A.H. geddit).

there's no synths involved - all done with guitars and bass done up with pedal effects

more of that Crunch-y ilk



these titles on the Crunch albums seem promising

. 01 00:00 The Crunch 02 03:38 Electric Fling 03 07:41 Concrete 04 12:30 Is Anybody There 05 16:50 Beyond 06 22:11 Spacerace 07 27:57 Turkey Roll 08 33:06 Vampire Vamp 09 38:38 Woogie Boogie 10 43:29 The Crunch (Reprise




but the promise is not delivered

in their 80s mode

varied pedigree, this Francis Monkman

Curved Air, 801 (the Manzanera-Eno-et al supergroup), library records galore, Sky...

and this great soundtrack

but Sky was his biggest success, another supergroup, this tune got to number 5 UK

always wanted to get into Curved Air but have never quite managed it

i wanna hear FM's solo album Energism which contains this as used in various tv programs for theme reasons

and then there's all the library stuff

another demo synth thing with FM