Crispy Ambulance - Compulsion

Crispy Ambulance: Compulsion (album)

UK 2015 LP; Factory Benelux: FBN 54 [Record Store Day 2015 - Limited to 500 Copies]

Tracks:

Side A:

A1. 03:23 Rainforest Ritual
A2. 04:06 Say Shake
A3. 06:59 Nightfall Ends the Ceasefire
A4. 05:01 At the Sounding of the Klaxon

Side B:

B1. 02:24 WMTP.2
B2. 04:29 Rain Without Clouds
B3. 06:38 Lucifer Rising
B4. 07:41 Open, Gates of Fire

Released:

18th April 2015 (Record Store Day 2015).

Credits:

PRODUCED BY GRAHAM MASSEY

Side 1 recorded at SSR, Manchester. October 2014. Engineered by Sara De Clara and Kesh Savani.

Side 2 tracks 1 and 2 are outtakes from the Plateau Phase album recorded by Chris Nagle at Strawberry, Stockport, September 1981, mixed in 2014 by Graham Massey.

Side 2 tracks 3 and 4 recorded at Testa Rossa, Manchester. June 2003.

Crispy Ambulance are Keith Darbyshire, Robert Davenport. Alan Hempsall and Gary Madeley.

Mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technologyworks.
Cover image by Peter Staessens. Sleeve design by Atomluft.
With thanks to SSR Studio and Darla Records.
Dedicated to Marjorie and Barry Seddon.
FBN 54 is a limited edition of 500 copies for Record Store Day 2015
www.crispyambulance.com www.factorybenelux.com

Remarks:

Album recorded in October 2014 at SSR Studios in Manchester - released for Record Store Day 2015.

"Compulsion is the studio album Crispy Ambulance might have recorded after The Plateau Phase, with six of the eight tracks now included on FBN 54 written and performed back in 1982. To these are now added Rain Without Clouds, a previously unreleased outtake from The Plateau Phase newly restored from the original multitrack masters, and WMTP.2 with added synth lines by producer-cum fifth member Graham Massey (of 808 State and Biting Tongues).

Almost uniquely, Crispy Ambulance has retained the same line-up since the group was founded in 1978: Alan Hempsall (vocals, keyboards), Gary Madeley (drums), Robert Davenport (guitars) and Keith Darbyshire (bass).

"There's a sense of feeling compelled by irresistible forces," explains Alan Hempsall. "Compulsion is an apt way to describe our constant urge to go back and make music with people we've known since childhood. While the world may have changed, our music continues to be the product of the same influences - the passing of time, the changing of the seasons, the content of our sleeping dreams, and the existence of space."

LP tracklist:

1. Rainforest Ritual
2. Say Shake
3. Nightfall Ends the Ceasefire
4. At the Sounding of the Klaxon
5. WMTP.2
6. Rain Without Clouds
7. Lucifer Rising
8. Open, Gates of Fire

A limited edition of 500 vinyl copies (with free download) for Record Store Day 2015. Cover image by Peter Staessens. "

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