This 1985 three-track 12" from The Alan Parsons Project contains tracks from albums released a year earlier. Here are the two instrumentals - Hawkeye from Vulture Culture, and Pipeline from Ammonia Avenue. Pipeline benefits from Andrew Powell's orchestral expertise and includes the almost-trademark 'Project french horns featuring in the mix, along with Mel Collins sax (a player busy in 1985 with Dire Straits).
Vulture Culture was the only Project album not to have orchestral elements as Andrew Powell was working on the score for the film Ladyhawke (a medieval fantasy with music related to the Project's style - one for another video maybe . . .). So the instrumental Hawkeye is a keyboard and guitar driven affair with Richard Cottle's sax playing it's part, as well as Monica from the Abbey Road Studios canteen saying "only what's on the menu". . .
With Andrew Powell away on film scoring duties, the APP band briefly re-formed itself as Keats, and made one fairly unsuccessful album of the same name, a track from which you can hear here.
Another Project 45rpm disc made an appearance in this blog back in September 2016 - the title track from the 1985 album Stereotomy.
This 45rpm disc scrubs up well and sounds nicely dynamic and detailed with Thomas Schick's Das MM cartridge.
Cartridge: Thomas Schick Das MM
Phono amp: Graham Slee Accession
Turntable: Yamaha PX-3 direct drive turntable
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