Review: Turning in a fresh slice of funk for the 2020-21 turn over period is Riva Star in collaboration with London-based singer Gavin Holligan. With Riva Starr adding a small cut up technique to the bebop skat style hats of Holligan's jazz style, flashed of strings dance with filtered house synths and a skipping groove in the disco entwined "Scat Dub". Moving on, a set of percussion pieces give a tropical vibe to the beefy drums and rollicking country, soul and western dance tip of "If I Could Only Be Sure (club mix)" - think Django Unchained deep in the club. Yee-haw!
They Were Sitting Against The Back Wall Of The Pub (feat Kit Downes) - (2:41) 156 BPM
She Put On The Headphones, Selected Shuffle (feat Sorren Maclean) - (3:12) 131 BPM
Some Stories Are So Good That They Deserve Repeating In Every Generation (feat Kit Downes) - (3:25) 132 BPM
Is That What Brought You All The Way Up Here - (3:11) 160 BPM
Where Did He Come From, That Man With The Shining Smile? (feat Esther Swift) - (1:48) 88 BPM
This Morning You Take A Stroll Out To The Pictish Stone (feat Kit Downes) - (3:19) 160 BPM
She Picked Up The Letter Again (feat Kit Downes) - (2:48) 138 BPM
Leon!' He Called, Not Loudly (feat Sorren Maclean) - (3:00) 68 BPM
We Drove Down The Road, Saddened By My Father's Decline (feat Kit Downes) - (2:21) 55 BPM
We Would Never Have Gone Out If We Had Not Intended To Return (feat Sorren Maclean) - (3:28) 157 BPM
When I Was Appointed To My Present Position Three Years Ago, I Felt Both Privileged & Humbled (feat Kit Downes) - (3:20) 88 BPM
In This Film From 1950 - (2:15) 140 BPM
That Braggart Has It Coming To Him (feat Kit Downes) - (2:50) 115 BPM
Dinner Was Over (feat Sorren Maclean) - (3:12) 125 BPM
Nobody Could Be A Hundred Per Cent Sure About The Last Tiger - (2:40) 113 BPM
There She Stood In Her Finery, Taking The Air, Tall, Handsome, Proud (feat Sorren Maclean) - (2:14) 60 BPM
My Father & I Are Reading The Papers (feat Kit Downes) - (3:09) 156 BPM
I Remember Daft Davie Standing At The Top Of The Hill (feat Esther Swift) - (1:46) 144 BPM
It Was An Afternoon Of Possible Magic (feat Kit Downes) - (2:42) 125 BPM
Jack Was Walking By The Lochside (feat Sorren Maclean) - (2:38) 128 BPM
I Used Not To Be Able To Read On Buses (feat Kit Downes) - (3:26) 94 BPM
The Room Is In Darkness (feat Kit Downes) - (3:04) 110 BPM
Once, When I Was About Thirteen (feat Kit Downes) - (1:55) 105 BPM
Do People Still Do This? (feat Kit Downes) - (4:31) 157 BPM
They'd Start Their Calling Around Midnight (feat Kit Downes) - (3:04) 152 BPM
I Met Him Only Once (feat Kit Downes) - (3:03) 150 BPM
Before The Beginning There Was Nothing - (2:15) 96 BPM
See That? (feat Kit Downes) - (2:36) 89 BPM
Jack Was Walking By The Sea (feat Sorren Maclean) - (2:12) 100 BPM
Now Here Are Our Main Stories Again, & I Should Warn You That Some Of These Are Accompanied By Flashes Of Inconsequence (feat Kit Downes) - (2:33) 141 BPM
