What you say
No-one has reviewed The Clangers by Vernon Elliot yet.
What we say
 This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.
An absolute must buy is the Clangers LP/CD (by Vernon Elliot)
on Trunk. Music from the old kids programme on telly. Things don't
get much better than this oh no. The vinyl is ltd to 1500 for the world
and I don't imagine the CD will be around for ever. If there's one record
you buy this week make it this one...
What the label says:
Far away from the land of breaks, beats and modern music is the world of The Clangers
Created
by the genius team of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (Bagpuss, Ivor
The Engine, Pogle's Wood), The Clangers are now over 30 years old.
Their
name comes from the noise the dustbin lids covering their homes makes,
and all the music and special effects played for both series are issued
on this record.
The music was played and composed by Vernon
Elliot and a small quartet from the Philharmonia. Musical direction was
guided and drawn by Oliver Postgate, and all the music was recorded in
the village hall just up the road from Mr Postgate's home.
We organised, remastered and compiled some 150+ recordings and musical cuesinto a suitable listening experience.
The
music itself is beautiful, quite wistful and a little crazy. It has
both classical and folk overtones and will appeal to cool kids of all
ages. The special effects, whistles, whoops and bangs were all created
by Mr Postgate in his basement using tape loops, swanee whistles and a
tin guitar.
The LP had some raving reviews and 26 LPS came
complete with a Clangers hand-knittied cover, now extremely
collectible. NME played the music on their 24 th floor and watched the
Sun go down, and consequently gave the CD ten out of ten. Mojo screamed
for their wooly sleeves and there were rumours of a small fight
breaking out in the boozer opposite Record Collector magazine over
there in Acton. I'd stay clear of Acton if I were you. Time Out writers
were with us as are Radio 3 who called it "Simply wonderful" and BBC
Radio Devon who asked for a pair of CDs so they could run a
competition. Oh and the real BBC Cult TV site featured the LP, and ran
a competition (I like the people at Cult TV, they thought the Trunk
Site featured too many naughty ladies for a link though). The cats at
Minstry Magazine calmed down to the sound of Vernon, and Bizarre
Magazine liked it lots. The even cooler news is that there was also a
competition in Mother and Baby magazine if you read that on a monthly
basis. Anyway, that's quite enough of that.
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