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Incredible jazz / prog / folk score to groundbreaking tattoo film by maverick filmmaker. Unreleased until now, so don’t go saying it’s a reissue because it isn’t, but I’m sure some people will because they always do.
John Samson (1946 - 2004) was a truly great documentary maker. He must
be as I’ve been obsessed with his work for many years. Educated first at
Glasgow School Of Art (circa 1963) and then finally in the art of film making at
The National Film And Television School in Beaconsfield - he headed there in
its opening year of 1971 having made a short film that got him a scholarship.
It was at the NFTS that Samson met Mike Wallington, who was to become his
right hand man and eventual producer; together as a quite brilliant team they
made a handful of inspiring, entertaining and hugely prescient films about
important, overlooked, unseen and marginal fringes in society.
Tattoo (1975) Exploring the rather clandestine world of tattooing in the UK.
Tracklist
Side One
Tattoo Part I
Side Two:
Tattoo Part II