Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present On The Corner (2LP/CD)

Martin is of course the multi-award-winning actor famed for The Office, The Hobbit, Sherlock and The Responder, but also for his deep love of music, which brought him to us with these compilations. On this volume he has chosen well, with obscure cuts from Santana and Neo-Soul from Kadhja Bonet, and Indo-Funk from Ashal Puthli. These sit alongside jazz from Gary Burton and Buddy Rich as well as favourite Soul 45s, all topped with the wonderful stew of Traffic’s ‘Medicated Goo’.

Eddie founded Acid Jazz in 1988 and even before then was a well-known and successful DJ. His sides show the excitement that he still finds in discovering and playing music. Opening with the synth-led Main Theme from UK cult film The Long Good Friday, he selects beautiful soul and jazzy disco, before entering the world of Brit-Funk with cuts by Hi-Tension and Light Of The World. He brings it home via Ace’s ‘How Long’ and some Brian Auger, which sets us up for the Ye-Ye beat of Jacquelin Taieb and Jacques Dutronc.

Showing our modernist roots, the album comes sharply dressed in its Dean Chalkley-photographed-Unknown-designed partnership sleeve on Double LP or CD, with notes by both Ed and Martin. The perfect end-of-year present to yourself or the one you love.

VINYL

A1. Big Time Operator – Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band

A2. Needle In A Haystack – The Whispers

A3. Light Of Life – Santana

A4. Vibrafinger – Gary Burton

A5. Space Shuttle – Buddy Rich

A6. Please Open The Door – Little Charles & The Sidewinders

B1. Higher Ground – Doug Carn

B2. Procession - Kadhja Bonet

B3. Funky Mule – Ike Turner

B4. Right Down Here – Asha Puthli

B5. Top Brass – Matt Berry*

B6. Medicated Goo – Traffic

C1. Main Title Theme From Long Good Friday – Francis Monkman

C2. I Can’t Keep From Crying Baby Sometimes – The Deidre Wilson Tabac

C3. Too Late – Mandrill

C4. Wounded woman – Sandra Wright

C5. I’ve Got To Come In – Jean Battle

C6. Don’t You Worry Baby, The Best Is Yet To Come – Bessie Banks

C7. Don’t Walk Away - General Johnson*

 D1. Hi Tension – Hi Tension

D2. Time – The Light Of The World

D3. How Long – Ace

D4. Rope Ladder To The Moon – Julie Tippets and Brian Auger

D5. 7th Du Matin – Jacquelin Taieb

D6. Le Responsible – Jacques Dutronc  

*vinyl exclusive

CD
1.Main Title Theme From Long Good Friday – Francis Monkman

2.Big Time Operator – Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band

3.I Can’t Keep From Crying Baby Sometimes – The Deidre Wilson Tabac

4.Right Down Here – Asha Puthli

5.Don’t You Worry Baby, The Best Is Yet To Come – Bessie Banks

6.Too Late – Mandrill

7.Hi Tension – Hi Tension

8.Time – The Light Of The World

9.Vibrafinger – Gary Burton

10.Higher Ground – Doug Carn

11.Light Of Life – Santana

12.Procession - Kadhja Bonet

13.Rope Ladder To The Moon – Julie Tippets and Brian Auger

14.Medicated Goo – Traffic

15.Space Shuttle – Buddy Rich

16.7th Du Matin – Jacquelin Taieb

17.Le Responsible – Jacques Dutronc 

18.Funky Mule – Ike Turner

19.I’ve Got To Come In – Jean Battle

20.Needle In A Haystack – The Whispers

21.Please Open The Door – Little Charles & The Sidewinders

22.Wounded woman – Sandra Wright

23.How Long – Ace