Laurel Aitken, Mighty Megatons - Love And Understanding (LP, Album)

Label: Liquidator

Laurel Aitken, The Godfather Of Ska, was a prolific artist who, when he wasn't on tour, used to go to the studio to produce new material. From all those sessions, there were a lot of unfinished tapes with new material that never saw the light of day. Liquidator rescues these tapes and takes them back to the recording studio to finish all those projects with the Mighty Megatons backing, who have written the unfinished parts and played the perfect backing track for some of the most brilliant moments in Laurel's career. This collection of songs has been produced by the Mighty Megatons' leader Rudy King, who has composed, arranged, recorded, and produced it with an incredible result. There is no information about when Laurel originally started recording these tunes or the studios he used. In most of the recordings, there were no backing instruments, just Laurel's vocals, sometimes a keyboard or a click track, but not much else. So the Mighty Megatons' work in rewriting and rearranging Laurel's compositions has been quite important.