This is the instrumental mix of 'What a smile' by Steve North (Lethal Poor) alt-psychers Necessary Animals & Keith Rodway (Alternative TV/The Good Missionaries).

Vocal version: stevenorth.bandcamp.com/track/what-a-smile

Mixed by Fritz Catlin (23 Skidoo) at Shoretone Studios, Hastings.

What others have said about this track:

"...like Syd Barrett jamming with Stockhausen on the Bitches Brew sessions... it is refreshingly out there" Alan Riggs (Delta 5)

"It's so good mate" Phil Winter (Tunng, Wrangler, Creep Show with John Grant and Lone Taxidermist)

"It's a lyrical and musical cut-up assault on being 'welcome' in the west" Neil Partrick (music blogger and analyst of the Arabian Peninsula and wider Middle East)

Necessary Animals (necessaryanimals.bandcamp.com) is the South Coast alt psych supergroup, master-minded by Keith Rodway (ex. The Good Missionaries) and featuring members of 23 Skidoo, Near Jazz Experience and Cuban Boys.

'What a Smile' will feature on Necessary Animals' 'Dark Jazz 2' compilation album, planned for release in spring 2022. This will be a sequel to Necessary Animals' first 'Dark Jazz' album (necessaryanimals.bandcamp.com/album/dark-jazz), released in 2020.

Background

Steve North is the former singer and guitarist from 80s avant funk/goth/darkwave band Lethal Poor, who released a 1985 single ('Trancefloor') via Rough Trade. Other members of Lethal Poor were Phil Winter (later with Tunng, Wrangler with Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder and Creep Show with John Grant) and Dave Musker (ex-Television Personalities and still with The Jasmine Minks).

Keith Rodway played bass in The Good Missionaries, a later incarnation of Mark Perry’s (founder of punk ‘Sniffin’ Glue’ fanzine) band, Alternative TV. The Good Missionaries toured and gigged with bands such as The Fall, The Pop Group, Crass, Scritti Politti, Delta 5, Poison Girls, Nik Turner's Inner City Unit and The Transmitters.