This was Matt Bianco

Matt Bianco

Matt Bianco is a UK band that was formed in 1983. They are mainly known for their success in the mid 1980s and their jazz, Latin-flavoured music....

's first album after splitting from Warner Brothers. Eager to take on the world without the constraints of a marketing department, Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 1983 to 2010 and Minister for the Arts between 1997-98.-Early life:...

 and Mark Reilly

Mark Reilly

Mark Reilly is a former Scottish professional association football player, who played in over 450 league matches for . He was part of the side that won the 1997 Scottish Cup Final....

 recorded this in the Fishbowl

Fishbowl

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, Fisher's own studio on the outskirts of London

London

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. This record saw a new group of session musicians participating in the production, although Robin Jones

Robin Jones

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 was still around to record percussive layers that support the songs rhythm structure. Ronnie Ross

Ronnie Ross

Albert Ronald "Ronnie" Ross was a jazz baritone saxophonist.Ross moved to England in 1946 and began playing tenor saxophone in the 1950s with Tony Kinsey, Ted Heath, and Don Rendell. During his tenure with Rendell he switched to baritone saxophone...

 had died, so the brass section had to be reorganised as well, giving the record a different timbre. To be sold, the record needed distributors, which were found for Germany

Germany

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, France

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, Spain

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, Latin America

Latin America

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 and Asia

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, but only JVC-Victor in Japan

Japan

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 really made some headway in promoting them to the local audience, and the album went Gold

Gold

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 there. Due to lack of airplay it failed to have any major impact in the rest of the world. This was not due to particularly bad material, as songs like "You and I" and "Head over Heels" are some of the best Fisher wrote. Nevertheless the lack of backing of a major label was certainly showing.

Track listing

1. "Our Love"
2. "The world is a ghetto"
3. "You and I"
4. "Buddy Love"
5. "Can you feel it"
6. "I need you now"
7. "Head over heels"
8. "Your destiny"
9. "Another time another place"