TONY CLAYTON-LEAon this week's reissue...

John Barry

Revisited

Fantastic Voyage ****

Here's an album so rooted in 1960s UK that it should be listened to whilst eating jellied eels and mushy peas. Revisited are four reissued John Barry albums. At least two are collector's items: Elizabeth Taylor in Londonis a groovy Greensleeves-influenced soundtrack to a long-forgotten TV documentary from 1963, while the music to Four in the Morning(an excellent 1966 kitchen-sink drama starring the then relatively unknown Judi Dench) is possibly Barry's most perfectly realised and bleakest soundtrack work.

The two remaining CDs are the famous Zulusoundtrack (including African-influenced beatnik instrumentals) and a collection called The Ember Singles Plus, which features some early treatments of Bond themes. All this, and a poster of a naked dolly bird juxtaposed with an upright handgun. Oh, James... www.futurenoisemusic.com

Download tracks: River Walk (from Four in the Morning)