Saint Etienne - Tiger BayA ground breaking blend of electronica and orchestration with traditional folk melodies, Tiger Bay, their third studio album, was originally released on 28th February 1994 on Heavenly. Self produced by the band and engineered by longtime collaborator Ian Catt, the album also features input from Underworlds Rick Smith, orchestral arrangements by renowned composer David Whitaker (Serge Gainsbourg, Marianne Faithfull, Air) and vocal contributions from

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Tommy Hunt’s crossover Top 30 hit single “Love On The Losing Side” and Ruth Swann’s cover version of the northern soul classic “Tainted Love”

Take the salsa-punk of tracks like 'Crybaby Demon' or 'Kool TV'

Ty’s creative juices suggested that First Tastebe written and executed with some radical new instrumentation — koto

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An amazing thoroughly researched compilation documenting the NWOBHM phenomenon's rarer outer reaches

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