Keith Mansfield~Alan Hawkshaw ‎– The Big Beat

Year : 1969

Label : KPM

Genre : Jazz, Funk/Soul

Style : Beat, Easy Listening, Soul Jazz

KPM is the most famous british music libary label specialized in background music for TV shows, films & advertising. The Big Beat (KPM No. 1044) is among the most popular recording of the KPM 1000 series including various tracks composed by Keith Mansfield & Alan Hawkshaw whose three extracted from The Champ album by the Alan Hawkshaw group's The Mohawks ("Rocky Mountain Runabout", "Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue" & "Senior Thump"). Keith Mansfield is a conductor, arranger and composer in charge of many soundtracks and background music for various British TV's shows. He collaborated with Dusty Springfield, american Jazz songstress Salena Jones or trumpeter Maynard Fergusson. Alan Hawkshaw is a keyboardist best known as former member of The Shadows during the seventies and session musician for David Bowie, The Rolling Stone or French singer Serge Gainsbourg ("Vu De L'Extérieur", Rock Around The Bunker & "L'homme A Tête De Choux"). A lot of KPM materials produced by Mansfield & Hawkshaw have been sampled by U.S. Hip-Hop artists (Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Madlib, Gnarls Barkley among others) and recycled by cinema such as "Move, Move, Move" (Hawkshaw) in "Nacho Libre" in 2006 or "The Astro Daters" (Mansfield) in "Kill Bill". 

SIDE A : Keith Mansfield - Exclusive Blend / Alan Hawkshaw - Studio 69 / Alan Hawkshaw - Work Out / Alan Hawkshaw - Rocky Mountain Runabout / Alan Hawkshaw - Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue / Alan Hawkshaw - Roving Reporter / Alan Hawkshaw - Senior Thump / Alan Hawkshaw - Tap Footer  

SIDE B : Keith Mansfield - Teenage Travelogue / Keith Mansfield - Teenage Ton Up / Alan Hawkshaw - Delivery Date / Alan Hawkshaw - A Touch Of Nonsense / Alan Hawkshaw - Man On The Move / Keith Mansfield - The Mexican D.J. / Alan Hawkshaw - Debsville / Keith Mansfield - Red Square Stomp

Serge Gainsbourg - Vu De L'Extérieur

 

Year : 1973 

Label : Philips 

Genre : Rock

Style : Pop, Funk/Soul
 

Second concept album of Serge Gainsbourg including poetry, funny onomatopoeia based on scatology (Des Vents Des Pets Des Poums) & childishness themes (Panpan Cucul). "Vu De L'Extérieur" is the first collaboration of Serge Gainsbourg with the british arranger/keyboardist Alan Hawkshaw featuring only english session musicians among bassist Brian Odgers from Apollo 100, guitarist Alan Parker, drummer Dougie Wright. or percussionist/drummer Chris Karan. As the pioneer and rock avant garde "Melody Nelson", it was unfortunately a commercial failure, however singles "Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais" (based on Paul Verlaine's poetry "Chanson d'Automne") and "Vu De L'Extérieur" known a big success in France. All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg, recorded at Phonogram Studio, London, except the voices & mixing at Studio Des Dames, Paris.

Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme A Tête De Chou

 

Year : 1976

Label : Philips
Genre : Rock
Style : Pop, Avant Garde

"L'Homme A Tête De Chou" is the fourth concept album of Serge Gainsbourg featuring british arranger/keyboardist, Alan Hawkshaw, bassist Brian Odgers, percussionist Jim Lawless from Appolo 100, guitarits Alan Parker, Judd Proctor, drummer Dougie Wright. As his previous albums ("Histoire De Mélodie Nelson", "Vu De L'exterieur" & "Rock Around The Bunker"), Serge Gainsbourg combines progressive rock with avant-garde and poetry including "Ma Lou Marilou" announcing his next reggae period, which was inspired by a passage from Ludwig Van Beethoven "Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57". All tracks composed by Serge Gainsbourg and arranged by Alan Hawkshaw, recorded at Mercury studios in London & Paris.