Brian Jones - 1967 - A Degree Of Murder

Brian Jones

1967

A Degree Of Murder

27 Untitled Tracks

All music composed and played by Brian Jones on the following instruments: sitar, organ, guitar, recorder, bass, banjo, dulcimer, harmonica.

Also featuring

Jimmy Page: guitars

Nicky Hopkins: piano

Kenney Jones: drums

Peter Gosling: keyboards, Mellotron, vocals

Mike Leander: orchestra

Glyn Johns: engineering.

Recorded January - February 1967 @ IBC and Olympic Studios, London. Broadcast on ZDF TV 1969.

An extremely underrated and unfortunately unknown piece of work. Brian Jones demonstrates his versatility as well as his ability to compose very good music. Playing a variety of instruments ranging from harpsichord to harmonica he does a wonderful job of filling the movie with prowess and intrigue.

In early 1967 Brian Jones found time in between Stones tours to record the soundtrack to the film Mord und Totschlag, starring his then- partner Anita Pallenberg as Marie. In the film Marie shoots her ex-boyfriend with his own gun after he attempts to beat her up. Instead of reporting this to the police she hires two men to help her dump the body in a construction site near an autobahn. Although the film was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival it is known today chiefly for its soundtrack. The tracks on this EP provide you with the musical highlights from the soundtrack, which has never officially been released. Talking to Rolling Stone in 2012 collaborator Jimmy Page said "Brian knew what he was doing. It was quite beautiful. Some of it was made up at the time; some of it was stuff I was augmenting with him. I was definitely playing with the violin bow. Brian had this guitar that had a volume pedal – he could get gunshots with it. There was a Mellotron there. He was moving forward with ideas.