Vinyl Records released on the West Label

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Side A - Strange World, Grey, She Moves to the Fair, August, Afterthought, Poetess

Side B - Mrs Tavesham, I Saw a Man, Toyshop, Auntie Jessica, Thinking about her Eyes, Strange World Indeed!

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Side A - Sha La La, You're my World
Side B - King Solomon's Mines - Impossible Dream

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BACKGROUND - WEST RECORDS

WEST RECORDS began in a Home Studio in Falkirk - The first record WRE101 (a 10" EP) was made there. Realising the need for a bigger studio, Jim West searched around Falkirk for premises.
Right in the heart of Falkirk, Bank Street to be precise, he found the Falkirk Aquarist Club had a couple of rooms and a toilet as Club Premises and that they only needed the use of the rooms for Monthly Meetings. Following agreement and formalities this became the first studio for recording bands and musicians. There were no residences adjoining so no near neighbours to offend! Many great Bands were recorded at Bank Street - including Agatha's Moment, The Bay City Rollers (before they were famous - 3 unreleased Tracks)! Hugh Nicholson of Blue - Marmalade - The Poets. Cat Violet a local 4 piece

Still searching for slightly larger premises Jim kept looking and identified a number of empty properties owned by Falkirk Council. The Deputy Town Clerk (Robin ??) at the time must have been sympathetic to the cause as eventually he identified a set of run down "rooms and kitchens" which required "upgrading".

6a - 12a Canal Street, Camelon, Falkirk was to become a new larger studio. Planning permission was sought to knock 4 rooms into the studio and through a 3 foot thick wall an adjoining room would be the Control Room and so "Central Scotland Recording Studios" was born! A further three rooms became another smaller studio and offices.

In recent Years a number of musicians I recorded way back then have been in touch to ask about the recordings we did. Well it so happens I still have tapes of many of these - so far - unreleased material! I am currently in contact with Richard (Dickie) Dow who lived in Falkirk and now lives in Australia - he can't believe his luck that I still have the tapes of most of the original recordings he did with various bands - Aardvark, Thrush and Susan Ram. He backed the late great singer Tam White on a track called The Knights of Bushido. This was the one and only track we recorded of the great man.

This song was written by a local singer songwriter Donald Cameron. Donald sadly passed away many years ago. He was a Student at Glasgow College of Music and a prolific writer of original songs and music. Like Hugh Nicholson he regularly used my facility to record new songs.

ESPERANTO RECORDS

Another area I got involved with was Esperanto - it is not that I was a language enthusiast - but I was looking for a niche. I met a Great Man - William Auld - type that name into Google and see what comes up!
Bill was a Worldwide known expert in Esperanto - We produced a 7" EP of his Poems and this got marketed to Esperanto Organisations around the World. A few other records followed. I have added a page detailing those releases here - KREA-SONO RECORDS became our new label for Esperanto Records