Dog Howl In Tune, by Vivian Stanshall

Dog Howl In Tune

by Vivian Stanshall

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2.	Made Of Stone 04:30	buy track
3.	I`d Rather Cut My Hands 03:30	buy track
4.	A Good Woman 04:10	buy track
5.	Goodbye Mother 02:27	buy track
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THE LONG AWAITED FINAL AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ROCK ALBUM BY VIVIAN STANSHALL

During the last five years of his life, ex Bonzo Dog Band solo artist Vivian Stanshall was working on a final album of music to follow up his much-loved 1981 album Teddy Boys Don’t Knit, which featured classics such as ‘Terry Keeps His Clips On’, ‘The Cracks Are Showing’ and ‘Ginger Geezer’. Stanshall had spent his time in the 1980s working on his ‘English Comic Opera in the Grand Tradition’ Stinkfoot, which first ran at the Old Profanity Showboat in Bristol Harbour in 1985, with a later revival in London. He had also found success writing material with his friend Steve Winwood co-writing the title track to Arc of a Diver, working on Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells 2 (he had been an integral part to the original Tubular Bells as the narrator) and various advertising campaigns including Lemsip, Cadburys and most famously Ruddles Beer.

For a considerable period Vivian had wanted to record and release another rock album and had been collecting songs as far back as the 1970s. With money he earned from his advertising work he funded various recording sessions and had interest from a major record label, but sadly he tragically died in a fire before an album could be completed.

The twelve tracks on this album are taken from a selection of sixty or so finished or nearly completed recordings on the tapes left by Vivian Stanshall, as his hitherto unpublished legacy.
Andy Frizell (The Wizards of Twiddly, The Coral and Kevin Ayers) is a musician and producer who worked with Vivian briefly in 1994. Using the surviving recordings, he has pieced back together Vivian’s final album adding where required the missing instrumentation but at all times paying reverence to the original vision. The collection includes the Beefheartian monster mash blues of ‘Dog Howl in Tune’ – also the title track - as well as the wistfully melancholic ‘No Time Like The Future’ on an album that wears it’s heart fully on its sleeve. It is by far the most biographical album Vivian ever made and draws on songs from Stinkfoot and other projects. ‘Goodbye Mother’ is the poignant last song from the project Shackleton, based around the exploits of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, which never saw the light of day whilst ‘Boy in Darkness‘ was written by Vivian for a project with Steve Winwood – Winwood’s version yet to be released.

Musicians include Jack Bruce (Cream) Ollie Halsall (Pato) Susie Honeyman (The Mekons) Neil Innes and Rodney Slater (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) Mike Kellie (Spooky Tooth) and others.

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released September 1, 2023

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