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Is There Anything About?

Is There Anything About? is the sixth studio album by British jazz fusion group Brand X. It is the last album to feature longstanding members Robin Lumley and Phil Collins. It was assembled from outtakes from the 1979 Product sessions. Bassist Percy Jones first heard about the album after it was released, and was unsatisfied with the results.[2] These sessions produced around twenty tracks which also comprised the Do They Hurt? album (1980). "Modern, Noisy and Effective" is actually the backing track to "Soho" with a new keyboard line overdubbed on it. "A Longer April" is an extended version of "April" from Product, with a bit of synth noise added in the middle. "TMIU-ATGA" is taken from an old cassette tape running in the studio while the band were improvising; the title is an acronym for 'They Make It Up- As They Go Along'.[3]

Is There Anything About?

September 1982

Startling Studios, Ascot, UK, April 1979, except track 5, "Is There Anything About", recorded mid 1970s

Jazz fusion

33:37

Passport (US)
CBS (original UK release)
Vertigo (Europe, Scandinavia and South America)
Epic (Japan)
Columbia (1996 UK reissue)

Robin Lumley, Brand X

– keyboards (1-5), vocals (4)

Robin Lumley

– keyboards (6)

J. Peter Robinson

– guitars

John Goodsall

– bass (1-4, 6), vocals (4)

John Giblin

– bass (5)

Percy Jones

– drums, percussion

Phil Collins

This album is outtakes from the (1979) sessions.

Product

"A Longer April" is a re-engineered version of "April" from the (1979) sessions.

Product

"Modern, Noisy, and Effective" is a recycling of the backing track of "Soho" from the Product (1979) album; that track had been engineered by Collins, who was described as "modern, noisy, and effective". This phrase, in fact, first appears in the film Three Dates with Genesis (1978); the narrator describes the scene in which the stage has been torn down and all the equipment loaded into trucks thus: "Like the rock band they service, the trucks are noisy, modern, and effective; at 2:30 on a Friday morning, they leave Mannheim to drive halfway across Europe to the Dutch border."

. www.Discogs.com. 1982. Retrieved 2010-01-08.

"Discogs.com: Brand X - Is There Anything About? (1982) album releases & credits"

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