Is There Anything About? Explained

Is There Anything About?
Type:Studio album
Artist:Brand X
Cover:Brand X - Is There Anything About.jpg
Released:September 1982
Recorded:Startling Studios, Ascot, UK, April 1979, except track 5, "Is There Anything About", recorded mid 1970s
Genre:Jazz fusion
Length:33:37
Label:CBS
Producer:Robin Lumley, Brand X
Prev Title:Do They Hurt?
Prev Year:1980
Next Title:X-Communication
Next Year:1992

Is There Anything About? is the sixth studio album by British jazz fusion group Brand X. It is the last album to feature longstanding members Robin Lumley and Phil Collins. It was assembled from outtakes from the 1979 Product sessions. Bassist Percy Jones first heard about the album after it was released, and was unsatisfied with the results.[1] These sessions produced around twenty tracks which also comprised the Do They Hurt? album (1980). "Modern, Noisy and Effective" is actually the backing track to "Soho" with a new keyboard line overdubbed on it. "A Longer April" is an extended version of "April" from Product, with a bit of synth noise added in the middle. "TMIU-ATGA" is taken from an old cassette tape running in the studio while the band were improvising; the title is an acronym for 'They Make It Up- As They Go Along'.[2]

Background and recording

This album is outtakes from the Product (1979) sessions.

"A Longer April" is a re-engineered version of "April" from the Product sessions.

"Modern, Noisy, and Effective" is a recycling of the backing track of "Soho" from the Product album; the liner notes for Product include the following credit for "Soho": "Eng: P. Collins (Modern, Noisy, and Effective)". However, this phrase first appears in the film Three Dates with Genesis (1978); the narrator describes the scene in which the stage has been torn down and all the equipment loaded into trucks thus: "Like the rock band they service, the trucks are noisy, modern, and effective; at 2:30 on a Friday morning, they leave Mannheim to drive halfway across Europe to the Dutch border."

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Ipanaemia" (John Goodsall) – 4:30
  2. "A Longer April" (John Giblin) – 7:00
  3. "Modern, Noisy and Effective" (Goodsall, Robin Lumley, Stephen Short) – 3:56
Side two
  2. "Swan Song" (Phil Collins, Giblin, Lumley, Short) – 5:37
  3. "Is There Anything About?" (Collins, Goodsall, Percy Jones) – 7:53
  4. "TMIU-ATGA" (Giblin, Lumley, J. Peter Robinson) – 5:09

CD version

  1. "Ipanemia" (Goodsall) – 4:13
  2. "A Longer April" (Giblin) – 7:23
  3. "TMIU-ATGA" (Giblin, Lumley, Robinson) – 5:09
  4. "Swan Song" (Collins, Giblin, Lumley, Short) – 5:37
  5. "Is There Anything About?" (Collins, Goodsall, Jones) – 7:53
  6. "Modern, Noisy and Effective" (Goodsall, Lumley, Short) – 3:58

Personnel

Brand X

Additional personnel

Production

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Percy Jones (Brand X, PAKT) Interview December 30, 2022 .
  2. Web site: Brand X > is There Anything About?.
  3. Web site: The Official Charts Company: Brand X - Is There Anything About (1982) . . 2010-01-09 .

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