Stars

𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡-𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙠-𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤-𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙖 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨.

Recorded and released in 1981, Stars' core line-up consisted of the musicians from Aura (‘Freex’, ‘Last Stop’, and ‘Sunshine Love’). “Stars was a band name and not a band”, explains keyboard player Steven Young. It was a studio group made up of mostly players from their neighbourhood band Hooker in Corona, Queens, that’d performed on the New York live circuit since the early 1970s.

At the helm of Starbase Sounds was the Cadle Brothers trio: producer Ray Cadle, bassist Jules Cadle, and an older brother as financial backer, leading to the creation of the short-lived Starbase Sounds label. It featured a total of four singles, including this rare 45 bomb, and three previous singles from The Freex Machine and Aura, all equally prized and sought after, and all reissued for the first time by Backatcha Records.