Is There Anything About?

Is There Anything About?
Studio album by Brand X
Released	September 1982
Recorded	Startling Studios, Ascot, UK, April 1979, except track 5, "Is There Anything About", recorded mid 1970s
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	33:37
Label	Passport Records
Producer	Robin Lumley & Brand X
Brand X chronology
Do They Hurt? (1980) Is There Anything About? (1982) Xcommunication (1992)

Professional ratings
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AllMusic	[1]

Is There Anything About? is the seventh album by British jazz fusion group Brand X. It is the last album to feature longstanding members Robin Lumley and Phil Collins. It was assembled from outtakes from the 1979 Product sessions. These sessions produced around twenty tracks which became Product (1979), Do They Hurt? (1980) and Is There Anything About? (1982). "Modern, Noisy and Effective" is the backing track to "Soho" with a new keyboard line overdubbed over the top of it. "A Longer April" is just an extended version of "April" from Product, with a bit of synth noise added in the middle. "TMIU-ATGA" is taken from an old cassette tape running in the studio when the band were improvising.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Ipanaemia" (Goodsall) – 4:30
2. "A Longer April" (Giblin) – 7:00
3. "Modern, Noisy and Effective" (Goodsall, Lumley, Short) – 3:56

Side two

1. "Swan Song" (Collins, Giblin, Lumley, Short) – 5:37
2. "Is There Anything About?" (Collins, Goodsall, Jones) – 7:53
3. "Tmiu-Atga" (Giblin, Lumley, Robinson) – 5:09

Reissue on CD

1. "Ipanemia" (Goodsall) – 4:13
2. "A Longer April" (Giblin) – 7:23
3. "Tmiu-Atga" (Giblin, Lumley, Robinson) – 5:09
4. "Swan Song" (Collins, Giblin, Lumley, Short) – 5:37
5. "Is There Anything About?" (Collins, Goodsall, Jones) – 7:53
6. "Modern, Noisy and Effective" (Goodsall, Lumley, Short) – 3:58

Personnel

• John Goodsall – electric guitar
• Robin Lumley – keyboards, backing vocals
• J. Peter Robinson – keyboards (track 6)
• John Giblin – bass (except track 5), backing vocals
• Percy Jones – bass (track 5)
• Phil Collins – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Raphael Ravenscroft – saxophone (track 2)
• Steve Short – syndrums (track 4), backing vocals
• Ed Carson – handclaps (track 3)

Charts

Notes

• This album is outtakes from the Product (1979) sessions.
• TMIU-ATGA means "they're making it up as they go along".
• "A Longer April" is a re-engineered version of "April" from the Product (1979) sessions.
• "Modern, Noisy, and Effective" is a recycling of the backing track of "Soho" from the Product (1979) album; that track had been engineered by Collins, who was described as "modern, noisy, and effective". This phrase, in fact, first appears in the film Three Dates with Genesis (1978); the narrator describes the scene in which the stage has been torn down and all the equipment loaded into trucks thus: "Like the rock band they service, the trucks are noisy, modern, and effective; at 2:30 on a Friday morning, they leave Mannheim to drive halfway across Europe to the Dutch border."

References

External links

• "Discogs.com: Brand X - Is There Anything About? (1982) album releases & credits". www.Discogs.com. Retrieved 2010-01-08. 
• "ProgArchives.com: Brand X - Is There Anything About? (1982) album credits & user reviews". www.ProgArchives.com. Retrieved 2016-07-23.