Treasure Island

Treasure Island Artist: Nikki Sudden
Label: Secretly Canadian
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 656605007724
EAN: 0656605007724
ASIN: B0002Z7RKO


Release Date: 2004-10-05

Treasure Island


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Tracks:

  1. Looking For A Friend
  2. Break Up
  3. Stay Bruised
  4. Kitchen Blues
  5. Wooden Floor
  6. Russian River
  7. House Of Cards
  8. High And Lonesome
  9. Fall Any Further
  10. Sanctified
  11. When The Lord
  12. Never Let Me Go
  13. Treasure Island
  14. Highway Girl

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Album Description

Nikki Sudden has been working on the songs found on Treasure Island since finishing his last proper album, 1998's Red Brocade. With a short list of around 40 numbers to choose from (many of which had been demoed in Bavaria and Berlin), Sudden and his band The Last Bandits (John Clifford Barry on bass and Stephane Doucerain on drums) assembled themselves for initial sessions in mid-2002. This motley group of expatriates who'd exiled themselves to Germany set up shop at John Rivers' WSRS studio in Leamington Spa, England, a home away from home where Sudden has recorded the vast majority of his work during his extensive 30-year career - which spans his pioneering early work as a founder of the Swell Maps (who released two critically acclaimed & highly influential full-lengths and a slew of singles), his albums with the revered Jacobites, over a dozen solo albums and the dark masterpiece Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc, his 1987 collaboration with Rowland S. Howard. Treasure Island is a stunning achievement, boasting Sudden's best songwriting in twenty years. <P>The album features incredible guest performances from rock'n'roll hall-of-famers Ian McLagan (The Small Faces, The Faces, Billy Bragg) and Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers), as well as Terry Miles (Bernard Butler), Dave Kusworth (Jacobites), and Anthony Thistlethwaite (The Waterboys).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Nikki we miss you.......2006-05-13

The recent death of Nikki Sudden leaves a huge hole that I don't think can be filled by anybody. Nikki was a true original, an English eccentric, a great writer, a snappy dresser, and last but not least a truly unique rock and roller. This album has a wonderful, loose feel, as if Nikki and his backing musicians were just jamming and making up stuff as they go along. Not many can pull that off and make it work. Extra points are awarded for getting Mick Taylor to drop by and add his always-transcendent guitar work.

5 out of 5 stars What do great musicians play for themselves? This Record!.......2004-10-17

This is a great record. Nikki Sudden gathered a group of first-rate musicians (including Mick Taylor) in addition to his Last Bandits to put together a collection of songs that you can tell they loved playing. This is not the result of lots of fancy post production. It's well recorded, real music with a good vivid sound and plenty of fabulous grooves. Listen to it once, and you'll really like it. Listen to a few times, and you'll love it. Nikki's vocals sometimes lean toward Dylan but in a good way--careful lyrics sung with feeling. The artwork features Trevor Austin, who is in the dictionary next to the entry for "hip." He lives in Germany, so you'll rarely find his stuff here--too bad.

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  1. Mary Lou ~ Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks
  2. Grievous Angel ~ Gram Parsons
  3. Euphoria!: The Best of Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band ~ Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
  4. Unavailable ~ Clover
  5. Please Stand Up Pt.1 ~ British Sea Power
  6. Where My Heart Is ~ Danny Seward
  7. Maps of Tacit ~ Shannon Wright
  8. Scott Garth ~ Scott Garth
  9. The Holy Bible ~ Manic Street Preachers
  10. Jimmy Eat World/Jebediah ~ Jimmy Eat World & Jebediah

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Voices in the Rain ~ Joe Sample

Live-Evil ~ Miles Davis

Factor of Faces ~ Anthony Cox

Seasons & Places ~ Florian Ross Quintet

Surge ~ New York Jazz Quartet

Jammu Africa ~ Isma%C3%ABl Lo

Amistad ~ Atahualpa Yupanqui & Pantoja

Shazz ~ Shazz

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Princess from East 01 Series ~ Riu Chin