Various Artists - Looking Back In A Funny Way *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 6th November 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Trunk Records was started 30 years ago. It quickly established itself as a unique and highly
influential label finding the unfound, the unthinkable and the forgotten sounds of the past. Here
we celebrate 30 years of the label, by issuing amazing music it has not released yet. Of course
we do.
Trunk Records began in 1996. It was the first label to issue non commercial library music to
the public. It was the first label to chase, find and issue The Wicker Man soundtrack, the first to
issue the sounds of computer keyboards and even announcements from train buffet cars.
Movements like “Hauntology” and “Folk Horror” all began thanks to the music issued by Trunk
Records. And here we are, 30 years on, and we think it is time for a 30 years anniversary LP.
Unlike the 25th anniversary double LP, we are not issuing music we have issued before. Instead,
here we are issuing music we have not issued before. What better way to sum up such an
important and unique label better than continuing where we first began.
Tracks include some unreleased Roger Webb slow sex disco, scatty breakbeat library,
psychedelics from Gabo Szabo’s backing group (The Advancement), groovy jazz from Pittsburg
(The Silhouettes), Basil Kirchin’s unreleased electronic experimental thing (it is very much “a
thing”). Some outsider singing from a hippie who lived in Drop City, a flexi disc selling you the
Milton Keynes shopping centre and of course some improvised jazz for children’s dance
workshops. And more too. And all on one LP.
TRACKLISTING:
Side One: Walking On The Dark Side - Peter Beasson / Jacques Hendrix , Stone Folk - The
Advancement , Watch The Waters Flow - Ananda Thalia , Lunar Invasion - The Silhouettes
Brass Tones - Delia Derbyshire / Elsa Stansfield , Bowskill Tape 1-1 - Coleridge Goode

Side Two: Central Milton Keynes - Ronnie Bond, Electronic Instrument Tape - Basil Kirchin, La
Même Chose - Roger Webb, One Day Last Summer - St Mary’s Secondary, Rimmer Tape - John
Cameron

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