Shakatak - Night Birds

Shakatak were well ahead of the game. This, their second album, came out in 1982, and is choc-full of every influence they could absorb from the burgeoning jazz-funk scene. So on the button were they that they had a handful of smash hit singles (three of them from this album) and so popular were they that everyone got sick of hearing them and moved on to other things and you'd never hear these tunes anywhere, apart from on the BBC radio station for old cunts, Radio 2.

The Japanese fucking loved them though, and they've made a decent living there ever since.

This album's really good. I particularly love Keith Winter's guitar sound.

I picked this up for something silly like 20c in the old Fishermans Warf Market in Port Adelaide - now the site of a brand new shiny and largely empty car park. UK pressing. Mint.

Also, the Wikipedia page has a photo of them live at the Capital Jazz Festival in 1982. I was there.

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