Bruton Brutoff - The Ambient, Electronic and Pastoral Sounds of the Bruton Library Catalogue

Selector and library music fanatic Jonny Trunk presents a blissful set of ambient and electronic music from the Bruton library catalogue; all deeply spacious, pastoral and strangely timeless. Frank Ricotti, Johnny Scott, John Cameron; chances are you won’t have heard of these luminaries unless you stumbled across a training video in the UK at any point in the 1980s, but they’re undeniably masters of the craft, worthy of reappraisal (and surely a sample credit on some future hip-hop record). Tunes like ‘Vibes’ and ‘Billowing Sails’ breeze gently with smooth jazz bass lines, flourishing strings and vivacious vibraphones, a testimony to this overlooked art form.

Tracklisting

1. Brian Bennett – The Swan 1
2. Francis Monkman – Stargazing 
3. Steve Gray – Billowing Sails 
4. Frank Ricotti – Vibes 
5. Frank Reidy / Eric Allen -Reflections
6. John Cameron – Tropic 2 
7. Orlando Kimber / Jon Keliehor – One Language
8. John Scott – Utopia Revisited
9. Les Hurdle / Frank Ricotti –Dissolves
10. John Cameron – Flotation
11. John Cameron – Drifting
12. John Cameron – Trek
13. Alan Hawkshaw – Saturn Rings