Trunk Records
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| Trunk Records | |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Founder | Jonny Trunk |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Film scores, jazz, humor, music, art |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Official website | trunkrecords |
Trunk Records is a British independent record label, which specialises mainly in lost film scores, unreleased TV music, library music, old advertising jingles, art, sexploitation and kitsch releases.
It was founded in 1995 by Jonny Trunk, and has since gained a cult following as a result of the releases of highly influential material from scores for films such as The Wicker Man, Deep Throat, Kes, The Blood on Satan's Claw and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.[1]
Other releases include soundtracks for 1970s UK Television series such as The Tomorrow People, UFO and Vernon Elliott's score for Clangers and Ivor the Engine. As well as film music and jazz, the label has also brought to public attention the lost or unreleased works of electronic pioneers such as Tristram Cary and John Baker, artists such as Bruce Lacey and avant-garde recordings made both by and for children, including the work inspired by radical free thinker and educational pioneer John Paynter.
History
[edit]Trunk Records was founded by Jonny Trunk in 1995 in the United Kingdom. Initially, the label was set up as a means to release material from the Bosworth Library archive, the oldest existing music library. Since then, the label has adhered to its mantra of "Music, nostalgia and sex", and established itself as a label popular amongst film and TV fans as well as record collectors.
It has also become infamous for its records associated with the 1960s and 1970s soft pornography such as the soundtrack to Deep Throat, Flexi-Sex (a compilation of flexi-discs from 1970s British magazines), Mary Millington Talks Dirty and Dirty Fan Male, an album based on Jonny Trunk's own experiences organising various glamour models' fan clubs including that of his sister, Eve Vorley.[2]
As well as film music and jazz, the label has also brought to public attention the lost or unreleased works of electronic pioneers such as Tristram Cary, Edward Williams and BBC Radiophonic Workshop's John Baker.
Jonny Trunk has also released his own material through the label, including his album, The Inside Outside. Since 2003, Trunk has been responsible for the rediscovery of composer and jazz drummer Basil Kirchin, by releasing his unknown 1960s experimental jazz and soundtrack work. The label has also been responsible for issuing the UK's rarest[when defined as?] jazz album, "Moonscape" by The Michael Garrick Trio. Recent work has included a release of "Noise Art", the recordings found in the studio of late British underground film maker and artist Jeff Keen.
Various Jonny Trunk side projects have included directing the now banned pop video, "Plug Me In", for Add N To (X).
Jonny Trunk is also a regular broadcaster on London's art radio station Resonance FM. Other recent broadcasting has included the BBC Radio 4 documentary Into The Music Library.[3]
"The Ladies' Bras", a single by Jonny Trunk and Wisbey, made number 70 on the UK Singles Chart in August 2007, and re-entered at number 27 in September 2007 after a campaign by Danny Baker and BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills. At 36 seconds long, it is the shortest track ever to chart in the top 30.[4]
Artists
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- Leona Anderson
- John Baker
- David Cain
- John Cameron
- Tristram Cary
- Delia Derbyshire
- Vernon Elliott
- Michael Garrick
- Barry Gray
- Tubby Hayes
- Jeff Keen
- Basil Kirchin
- Desmond Leslie
- Sven Libaek
- Daphne Oram
- Carl Orff
- Mike Sammes
- Jonny Trunk
- Desmond Leslie
- Bruce Lacey
- John Paynter
Discography
[edit]| No. | Artist | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARKED 1P/1LP | Various | The Super Sounds of Bosworth | |
| BARKED 2LP/2CD | Various | The Super Sounds of Bosworth, Volume Two | |
| BARKED 3LP/3CD | Various | The Battle of Bosworth | |
| BARKED 4P/4LP/4CD | Paul Giovanni & Magnet | The Wicker Man | |
| JBH001 | Syd Dale | "Theme to Screen Test (Marching There and Back)" | |
| SOUP 001LP/001CD | Vernon Elliott | Clangers : Original Television Music | |
| TTT001 | Jonny Trunk & Slide | "The Snow It Melts The Soonest" | |
| TTT002 | Jonny Trunk | "Sister Woo"/"Mr Hand" | |
| KES001LP/001CD | John Cameron | Kes Original Soundtrack | |
| B01 | Mary Millington | Mary Millington Talks Dirty | |
| XXX1LP/1CD | Various | Deep Throat Original Movie Soundtrack | |
| SEC 001LP/001CD | Various | Resurrection: The Amplified Bible of Heavenly Grooves | |
| WWW1/DFM001LP/001CD | Trunk & Wisbey | Dirty Fan Male[5] | |
| TTT003/003CD | Transcargo | Oh Boy | |
| JBH002CD/002LP | John Cameron | Psychomania Original Soundtrack | |
| JBH003CD | Basil Kirchin | Quantum | |
| TTT004 | Jonny Trunk | "Dead Soon" | |
| JBH004CD/004LP | Various | Flexi-Sex | |
| JBH005CD/005LP | Basil Kirchin | Charcoal Sketches/States of Mind | |
| JBH007CD | Transcargo | idleluxury | |
| JBH008CD/008LP | Jonny Trunk | The Inside Outside | |
| JBH010LP | Various | UFO | |
| JBH011CD/011LP | Various | Dawn of the Dead: The Unreleased Incidental Music | |
| JBH012CD/012LP | Basil Kirchin | Abstraction of the Industrial North | |
| JBH014CD/014LP | Desmond Leslie | Music of the Future | |
| JBH015CD | Trunk & Wisbey | Dirty Fan Male (New & Improved) | |
| JBH016CD/016LP/PD | Derek Griffiths & John Le Mesurier | Bod: Words & Music | |
| JBH017LP/017CD | Delia Derbyshire, Dudley Simpson, Brian Hodgson & David Vorhaus | The Tomorrow People Original Television Music | |
| JBH018LP/018CD | Various | Fuzzy Felt Folk | |
| JBH019LP/019CD | Mike Sammes & The Mike Sammes Singers | Music for Biscuits | |
| JBH020LP/020CD | Sven Libaek | Inner Space | |
| JBH021LP/021CD | Basil Kirchin | Particles | |
| JBH022LP/022CD | Michael Garrick Trio | Moonscape | |
| JBH023LP/023CD | Marc Wilkinson | The Blood on Satan's Claw | |
| JBH024CD | Various | Now We Are Ten | |
| JBH025CD/025LP | Jonathan Klein, Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter and Grady Tate | Hear O Israel | |
| JBH026LP | Various | Mike Taylor Remembered | |
| JBH027LP/027CD | The Vernon Elliott Ensemble | Ivor the Engine (with music from Pogles' Wood) | |
| JBH028CD | John Baker | The John Baker Tapes Volume 1 | |
| JBH029CD | John Baker | The John Baker Tapes Volume 2 | |
| JBH030LP | John Baker | The John Baker Tapes | |
| JBH031CD | Ted Taylor, Tubby Hayes and The Mike Sammes Singers | Hymns A' Swinging | |
| JBH032LP/032CD | Various | G-Spots. The electro jazz folk horror world of Studio G | |
| TTT005 | Tubby Hayes | Voodoo Session | |
| JBH033LP/033CD | Jonny Trunk | Scrap Book | |
| JBH034LP/034CD | Edward Williams | Life on Earth - Music from the 1979 BBC TV series | |
| JBH035LP/035CD | Tristram Carey | It's Time for Tristram Cary | |
| JBH036LP/036CD | Kenny Graham and His Satellites | Moondog and Suncat Suites by Kenny Graham and His Satellites | |
| JBH037CD | Leona Anderson | Music to Suffer By (Remastered) | |
| TTT006 | The Jellies | Jive Baby on a Saturday Night | |
| JBH038CD/038LP | Basil Kirchin | Soundtrack to Primitive London / Freelance | |
| RSD001LP | Basil Kirchin | Soundtrack to The Shuttered Room, one-off test pressing for Record Store Day | |
| JBH039CD/039LP | Barry Gray | Stand By For Adverts | |
| JBH040CD/040LP | Sandra Cross | The MMs Bar Recording | |
| JBH041CD/041LP | Michael Garrick and Shake Keane | Rising Stars | |
| OST001CD | Adrian Corker | Soundtrack From Way Of The Morris | |
| JBH042CD/042LP | Rick Jones and Michale Jessett | Fingerbobs | |
| JBH043CD/043LP | David Cain (composer) with the poetry of Ronald Duncan | Radiophonic Workshop The Seasons | |
| JBH044CD/044LP | Bob Chance | It's Broken | |
| JBH045CD | Refined Lard | A Trunk Records Sampler | |
| JBH047CD/047LP | Jeff Keen | Noise Art | |
| JBH048CD/048LP | Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman | Music For Children | |
| TTT007 10" | Daphne Oram and Tom Dissevelt | Electronic Sound Patterns and Electronic Movements | |
| JBH049CD/049LP | Various | Classroom Projects - Music Made By Children In Schools | |
| JBH050CD/050LP | Palmer Rockey | Rockey's Style Movie Album | |
| JBH051CD/051LP | Kenny Graham | The Small World of Sammy Lee OST | |
| JBH052CD/052LP | Various Artists | Funny Old Shit Volume One | |
| JBH053CD/053LP | Bruce Lacey | The Spacey Bruce Lacey Volume One | |
| JBH054LP | Bruce Lacey | The Spacey Bruce Lacey Volume Two | |
| TTT008 | Delia Derbyshire And Anthony Newley | Moogies Bloogies |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Petredis, Alexis (7 March 2002). "Interview with Jonny Trunk". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "Unknown". Times Onlines. Retrieved 20 September 2013.[dead link]
- ^ "Into The Music Library Documentary". BBC. 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "'Ladies' Bras' Hold UK Chart Record". Billboard.biz. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ Trunk, Jonny (15 August 2005). "Dirty Fan Male". Harper Collins Entertainment. ASIN 0007207727.
Further reading
[edit]- "Jonny Trunk". The OST Show Podcasts on Resonance FM. 30 April 2013.
External links
[edit]- Trunk Records – official site
- Trunk Records discography at Discogs
