Album
Climate Of Hunter
1984 · Jazz, Rock
6 collectors on Gatefold own this
Climate Of Hunter is a Rock album by Scott Walker, originally released in 1984. On Gatefold: 24 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.
About
The Walker Brothers’ 1978 album <i>Nite Flights</i> featured four tracks from Scott Walker that were in a completely different musical sphere from the rest of the group and most of popular music, for that matter. With touches of Brian Eno, David Bowie and Iggy Pop, Walker found his way to the future. <i>Climate of Hunter</i>, his only album of the ‘80s, is another piece of great idiosyncrasy. The lyrics exist as puzzles that are further enhanced by the generic titles (“Track Three,” “Track Five”…). The music flips out all over the place. “Track Six” is the sound of a horror movie being abducted by an alien synth and saxophone. “Rawhide” is anything but the traditional western theme. Walker is in fine voice and he even swerves towards accessibility with the standard rock drive of “Track Seven” and the back porch lullaby, “Blanket Roll Blues,” with words by Tennessee Williams and music by Kenyon Hopkins. Still, it prepares no one for <i>Tilt</i> and <i>The Drift</i>, two albums firmly entrenched in avant-garde movements of sound and texture that would follow in the decades ahead.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Rawhide
- A2Dealer
- A3Track Three
- A4Sleepwalkers Woman
Side B
- B1Track Five
- B2Track Six
- B3Track Seven
- B4Blanket Roll Blues
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Art Rock
- layered
- brooding
- cerebral
Half of the album's tracks are titled numerically, which Walker described in an interview with the Tube as an attempt to avoid biasing audience interpretations. However, the inner sleeve on the original LP release does not include the intended names for these songs; instead, each one's opening line is bolded as if it was a title in and of itself. Consequently, these bolded portions are widely used as informal nicknames:
- "Track Three" is commonly called "Delayed" (from "Delayed in the headlong")
- "Track Five" is commonly called "It's a Starving" (from "It's a starving reflection if he dies in the night")
- "Track Six" is commonly called "Say It" or "Say I" (from "Say it got late on that one, that life-giver one;" the "t" in "it" is not bolded, hence the secondary fan nickname)
- "Track Seven" is commonly called "Stump of a Drowner" (from "Stump of a drowner, the delta holder").
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Brian GascoigneARRANGED BY FEATURING, KEYBOARDS KEYBOARDS
- Billy OceanBACKING VOCALS HARMONY VOCALS VOCALS
- Evan ParkerSAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE, SOPRANO SAXOPHONE
- Gary KettelPERCUSSION
- Mark IshamFEATURING, TRUMPET TRUMPET
- Mark KnopflerGUITAR
- Mo FosterBASS BASS GUITAR FEATURING, BASS
- Peter van HookeDRUMS PERCUSSION FEATURING, DRUMS
- Phil PalmerGUITAR LEAD GUITAR, GUITAR LEAD GUITAR, RHYTHM GUITAR
- Ray RussellGUITAR LEAD GUITAR, GUITAR LEAD GUITAR, RHYTHM GUITAR
6 collectors on Gatefold own this · 24 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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