Al Johnson
Peaceful

Over Under Away – Volume I is the first compilation LP from Melbourne independent label ​Hopestreet Recordings and is released to celebrate their 10th anniversary.It features 10 tracks from Hopestreet’s first generation of artists: psych-Bollywood SciFi orchestra ​The Bombay Royale​, cinematica pioneers ​The Cactus Channel​, soul queen ​Emma Donovan and her mighty band ​The Putbacks ​and dusty country soul from ​The Meltdown, ​plus ​a couple of rarely heard gems, an afrobeat rap cut by One Sixth​ and a Marvin Gaye inspired environmental panic anthem by ​Zillanova feat. Cisco Tavares​.Over Under Away is the label’s creation story. The material in Volume I was created in Hopestreet’s infancy, when the same people played in all the bands, and everyone who worked in the office was also making the records. If a compilation put together out of nine different albums sounds unusually cohesive, it’s because the same people performed, wrote and produced all the songs. Putbacks guitarist Tom Martin leads the charge, appearing on 8 out of 10 cuts. All production and engineering duties were shared by label founders Bob Knob and Tristan Ludowyk. These days are past, but the aim of Over Under Away – Volume I is to represent the seed that grew into the label as it is today.The compilation takes its name from a song on ​Emma Donovan & The Putbacks’ 2014 album ​Dawn​. Over Under Away is a story of struggle, perseverance and, above all else, patience. About growing from small beginnings to “sing and shout and talk up loud.” Hopestreet began as a recording experiment, an afternoon goof between friends in a decrepit factory in Brunswick. The only ingredients were an Otari tape machine, some decent musicians and little bit of goodwill. When the label started, 7a Hope Street was surrounded by a desert of vacant industrial property. Now it’s surrounded by gleaming new apartment complexes. In that moment between decay and gentrification a little magic happened. Now the label, like it’s surroundings continues to evolve, but this compilation celebrates that fleeting point in time and everything that grew from there.

deejay.de: ...Falk & Klou thrives in the glorious nostalgia of the golden age of grooving jazz, jazzy libraries and pfunky stuff, reimagined in the year of the Corona. The Swedish duo consisting of multi instrumentalists Carl Johan Fogelklou and Fredrik Segerfalk who haphazardly met over a pile of vintage synthesizers that required immediate attention, only to realize that they had a common goal in this life - to pretend that they were recording producers and artist in the seventies. The urge led to actual sessions, first only the two, later to be followed by horn players, drummers and other desperate pandemic struck musicians. In the end ten prominent tracks emerged, with the common denominator being the love of great music. The library of Falk & Klou.

P-Vine: ...The world's first LP reissue of the finest Lady Soul board FAY "This Is A Blessing", which has never been reissued since its original release in 1981!Full of killer tunes such as "I Don't Know", a city soul produced by "Spread Love" MICHAEL ORR, which is familiar even with that "witch" jacket! The original is extremely rare! !!Fay Hill, a female singer who has been based in LA since the 1980s, is an artist known for her 2nd album "Island In My Mind", which was released in 1987 and appointed professional musicians and engineers from LA. , The 1st album released in 1981, this work is a superb lady soul with powerful vocals and a sound full of city feeling!Among them, the city soul "I Don't Know" (M5), which is produced by MICHAEL ORR, who is familiar with the rare groove scene, and the guitar cutting at the beginning is too comfortable, is an exaggeration to say that it is the highlight of this work. There will be no.Furthermore, the world's first LP full of killer tunes such as "I Know Who You Should See" (M2) and "Any Load You Can Handle" (M7), which were single-cut at 7 inches at that time and are still premiered. It's a reissue!