Biography
Mick Talbot, once the keyboardist in Style Council, joined forces with pioneering acid jazz DJ Chris Bangs under a casually adopted name to support the 2022 release of Back to Business, an album steeped in '60s R&B influences.
Bangs is said to have originated the term "acid jazz" during a 1987 London gig alongside Gilles Peterson, who later became the Acid Jazz label's co-founder, a couple of years before Style Council disbanded. Bangs and Galliano issued some of the imprint's earliest recordings. Peterson departed in 1990 to establish Talkin' Loud, the outlet for Galliano's debut album In Pursuit of the 13th Note in 1991. Bangs met Talbot while producing those sessions, during which Talbot supplied keyboards.
The pair maintained a busy output from the mid- through late-1990s, issuing four albums of smooth, light, beats-driven jazz as Soundscape UK and three more under the comparable yet more streetwise Yada Yada. Over the subsequent decade Bangs issued jazzy and progressive house material under solo and joint aliases including Original Soulboy, the Path, and Spirit of the Boogie, with several tracks appearing on Dadhouse, the label he launched with Dave Jarvis. Talbot, meanwhile, served as touring keyboardist for Gene, rejoined Dexys Midnight Runners after an early-'80s stint with Kevin Rowland's band, and performed worldwide with Candi Staton.
In the 2010s Bangs concentrated on scoring for film and television, while Talbot featured on the prominent 2014 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey album Going Back Home. As the 2020s neared, Bangs and Talbot received a modest financial return from digital licensing of their Soundscape UK and Yada Yada catalog. They directed those funds toward the sessions that became 2022's Back to Business, an album fronted by the single "Sumthin' Else." The record included contributions from numerous earlier associates, among them Brand New Heavies guitarist Simon Bartholomew along with Julian Burdock, Roger Beaujolais, and Dave Priseman.
Bangs is said to have originated the term "acid jazz" during a 1987 London gig alongside Gilles Peterson, who later became the Acid Jazz label's co-founder, a couple of years before Style Council disbanded. Bangs and Galliano issued some of the imprint's earliest recordings. Peterson departed in 1990 to establish Talkin' Loud, the outlet for Galliano's debut album In Pursuit of the 13th Note in 1991. Bangs met Talbot while producing those sessions, during which Talbot supplied keyboards.
The pair maintained a busy output from the mid- through late-1990s, issuing four albums of smooth, light, beats-driven jazz as Soundscape UK and three more under the comparable yet more streetwise Yada Yada. Over the subsequent decade Bangs issued jazzy and progressive house material under solo and joint aliases including Original Soulboy, the Path, and Spirit of the Boogie, with several tracks appearing on Dadhouse, the label he launched with Dave Jarvis. Talbot, meanwhile, served as touring keyboardist for Gene, rejoined Dexys Midnight Runners after an early-'80s stint with Kevin Rowland's band, and performed worldwide with Candi Staton.
In the 2010s Bangs concentrated on scoring for film and television, while Talbot featured on the prominent 2014 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey album Going Back Home. As the 2020s neared, Bangs and Talbot received a modest financial return from digital licensing of their Soundscape UK and Yada Yada catalog. They directed those funds toward the sessions that became 2022's Back to Business, an album fronted by the single "Sumthin' Else." The record included contributions from numerous earlier associates, among them Brand New Heavies guitarist Simon Bartholomew along with Julian Burdock, Roger Beaujolais, and Dave Priseman.
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