White Label - Stolen Voices (album stream)

White Label's "Stolen Voices" is a bootleg remix album featuring several rare or even unreleased tracks and long-lost demos from some well known artists. The only elements used in the final arrangements are the original lead and backing vocals, plus stray bits of guitar or whatever.

You can listen to all the tracks below and even download them if you like.



The Buzz
"A mean feat of alchemy (and totally excellent)" Lauren Laverne, 6Music

"Taking the music of the past and making it sound like…a different past. White Label are using technology to write their own version of musical history. What amazes here is the fidelity and sense of curatorship" The Guardian

"Great…a really interesting album" Jarvis Cocker, 6Music

"The audacious bootmash model is no new idea. But this brazen trio do it with an uncommon sensitivity" Mojo

"It’s rare to be smitten after only one listen. A beautiful, relaxing album of fantastic vocal performances and fresh instrumentation" Boom For Real

White Label’s "Stolen Voices" is a "bootleg remix" album featuring vocals from rare or unreleased tracks and long-lost demos. The only elements used in the final arrangements are the original lead and backing vocals, filtered out and separated, then given elaborate, full band arrangements.

White Label are Steve Aungle, Anth Brown and Tom Doyle, a trio originally from Scotland who are now based in London and Berlin. The making of "Stolen Voices" involved the back-and-forth transfers of the work-in-progress files between the UK and Germany via Skype, before the results were mixed in London and mastered by Andy Jackson (currently overseeing the forthcoming Pink Floyd reissues) to ensure tip-top audio quality.

In the weeks since it first appeared online, "Stolen Voices" has been widely lauded and become the focus of a flurry of download activity.

"Stolen Voices" is available to stream or as a full album download from www.whitelabelstolenvoices.com. There is also a limited edition vinyl version of the LP available in many good record stores.

Track By Track

Jean 1 is a Northern Soul reworking of 5.30 Plane by The Supremes, sung by Jean Terrell and taken from the 1972 LP The Supremes Produced And Arranged By Jimmy Webb. The version here was lifted from a scratchy seven-inch recorded onto a hissy C60.

Todd features Todd Rundgren performing The Ballad (Denny And Jean). The vocal was taken from a live version of the song recorded at the Fox Theater, California, in 1971. During this version, Rundgren forgets part of the lyric.

John 1 is from the 1968 Esher Beatles demos for The White Album and was originally titled Child Of Nature.

Jimmy is Sycamore Trees as sung by Jimmy Scott in the final episode of Twin Peaks in 1991.

Billy is a lost demo by the Associates singer Billy MacKenzie, remixed here with inspiration from the Memphis sessions of Dusty Springfield and Elvis Presley. White Label recovered the vocal from the original digital tapes.

Jean 2 is a song called Don’t Say Goodbye, sung by Jean King on a Harry Nilsson publishing promo disc in 1967.

Billie is a rare version of Prelude To A Kiss by Billie Holiday

David is Tired Of My Life, a 1971 David Bowie acoustic, reel-to-reel home demo of a song that didn't make it onto Hunky Dory, here restored to what we think it might have sounded like.

John 2 is a cut-up of a live performance of Small Hours by John Martyn at Reading University in 1978

Dennis is Carry Me Home, an unreleased track by Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson that failed to make the cut for Holland in 1973.

Links
http://www.whitelabelstolenvoices.com/