Monday 7 December 2020

Back to Mike Elliott with the missing City Traffic from 1977





Obviously as the commenter pointed out this belongs with the other posts of Natural Life and related materials.  These were all back here and with Mike Elliott's other stuff here and I thought I had completed their discography which all came out in the decade from 1974 to 1983.  You can see the lovely drawings are all done by the same guy, credits on the verso, this one a little bit more art primitif versus the others.

The music here is not as fusiony as the Natural Life trilogy, I guess Mike at this time preferred the straight jazz sound, although everything is instrumental and played on the no-fuzz, no-gain Gibson electric.  There are a couple of those godawful throwaway jazz standards including two of the absolute worst Jobim pop hits (but thankfully not the Garrote from Ipanema that always chokes me dead to hear), but Mike is capable of progressivy fusion too as you can tell from the closer, which is far too short:



The other fabulous track is the one he wrote called You Can't Take the Country:




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