説明
今週は、イギリスのストリート・ソウルグループPauseによる非常にレアなシングル2枚がリリースされる。これらの12インチは、80年代後半のイギリス・ソウル音楽の中でも最高の音楽を代表するもので、トリオの全作品を網羅している。
Pauseは、人気のラバーズ・ロックグループThe Administratorsから生まれたブギー・ソウルのサイドプロジェクト。The Administratorsは、HarlesdenのプロデューサーCha Chaのもとで多くの曲をレコーディングし、その後Groove & A Quarterレーベルを設立し、80年代後半にはラバーズシーンでヒットを連発した。PauseのHugh Pomellsは、音楽を新しい方向に進めたいという思いがプロジェクトの原動力だったと語り、ヴォーカルにはSinclairも参加していた（彼は90年代初頭にDomeレーベルからヒットシングルをいくつもリリースした）。
1988年のスムーズなスペースエイジ・ソウル『Got to Know』に先立ってリリースされた1987年の重要なエレクトロ・ブギー・ジャム『It's Just Amazing』がこの2枚のシングルで、グループが自ら少量のみリリースした唯一のシングル。これらは、現在では中古市場で非常に高値がついている。これらの失われたイギリス・ソウルのクラシック作品の初の公式ライセンス・リイシューは、長くは持たないので、早めに手に入れよう！
A1. It's Just Amazing (vocal mix)
B1. It's Just Amazing (Instruemental mix 1)
B2. It's Just Amazing (Instruemental mix 2)
We drop two big 12"s this week, in the form of both impossibly rare singles recorded by early UK street soul act Pause. Dating from the late 80s these 12"s represent some of the finest music to come out of this period of British soul music, and represent the entirety of the trio's known output!
Pause was a boogie/soul side-project born out of popular lovers rock group The Administrators - who recorded a multitude of sides for the foundational Harlesden producer/imprint Cha Cha before going on to found the Groove & A Quarter label recording a series of hits on the lovers scene during the latter part of the decade. Pause's Hugh Pomells recalls a desire to take the music in a new direction as being the driving force behind the project, with the group also counting vocalist Sinclair in it's ranks (who would go on to record a series of hit singles for the Dome label in the early-to-mid 1990s).
Preceding the smooth space-age soul of 1988's "Got to Know" was this, 1987's seminal electro-boogie jam "It's Just Amazing". As the only two singles ever recorded by the group, originally self-released in very small quantities, they have gone on to command massively inflated prices on the secondhand market. The first ever officially licensed reissues of these lost British soul classics will not hang about for long, so grab them quick!!!
Pause was a boogie/soul side-project born out of popular lovers rock group The Administrators - who recorded a multitude of sides for the foundational Harlesden producer/imprint Cha Cha before going on to found the Groove & A Quarter label recording a series of hits on the lovers scene during the latter part of the decade. Pause's Hugh Pomells recalls a desire to take the music in a new direction as being the driving force behind the project, with the group also counting vocalist Sinclair in it's ranks (who would go on to record a series of hit singles for the Dome label in the early-to-mid 1990s).
Preceding the smooth space-age soul of 1988's "Got to Know" was this, 1987's seminal electro-boogie jam "It's Just Amazing". As the only two singles ever recorded by the group, originally self-released in very small quantities, they have gone on to command massively inflated prices on the secondhand market. The first ever officially licensed reissues of these lost British soul classics will not hang about for long, so grab them quick!!!
