Requiem is an end-of-the-world concept album that comes on with a bang, not a whimper, and may well be the best thing that Arthur Brown has ever done!

It's got all of the sonic excess you'd expect from the man who gave us Fire , but Brown's ornate art-rock tendencies are invariably backed up with enough visceral punch to make them marvellously affecting, not merely affected, while producer Earl Mankey handles the electronics well enough to maintain an unusually high level of interest and detail.

Speak No Tech King Of England / Conversations / Strange Romance / Not Fade Away / The Morning Was Cold / Speak No Tech / Names Are Names / Lady Love / Big Guns Don't Die / Take A Picture / You Don't Know / Old Friend / My Colleague / Lost My Soul In London / Joined Forever / Mandala / Desert Floor / Requiem / Chant / Shades / Animal People / Spirits Take Flight / Gabriel / Requiem-Mechanical Masseur / Busha-Busha / The Fire Ant And The Cockroach / Bonus Tracks - Tear Down The Wall / Santa Put A Spell On Me / Pale Stars / Chromatic Alley / Falling Up

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Released on 23/11/09. The 1980 album bringing together Arthur Brown and one-time Mothers Of Invention man Jimmy Carl Black. It features a collection of carefully chosen blues and R&B songs, all interpreted in the inimitable Brown style. Arthur Brown’s collection of Blues and R&B songs.

Fever / Monkey Walk / Unchain My Heart / Got My Mojo Workin / Smokestack Lightnin' / Hound Dog / Help Me / The Right Time / Stand By Me / The Lord Is My Friend

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