|
It’s been a long time………many
things happening for me, though quiet on the gig
front for the time being at least.
BOO has just been released on a
Japanese label, in the paper jacket format, on
Strangedays Records. This is a new format to me:
a miniature replica of the original vinyl,
complete with lyrics translated into Japanese. I
will never know how that works.
I wish them well with a
translation of Who Is India?, one of the more
obscure lyrics on that album. Stream of
consciousness stuff! I am so intrigued by my
new-found fan-base in Japan that I have enrolled
in Japanese classes. I plan to do some gigs in
Japan next year, but doubt I shall be
linguistically proficient by then.
Please, thank you, hello and
goodbye will be a fair start……Oh, and it's also
available in China, Taiwan and South Korea, but
I won’t be embarking on those languages too
you’ll be relieved to hear. It is so exciting to
me, and I love hearing from fans all over the
world who have somehow heard of BOO over all
these years and hooked onto it.
The real joy to me is that a lot
of these new fans are from a whole new
generation. I feel like the Mother Hen.
On the Strangedays edition, I
have also allowed four songs to be released,
songs I wrote shortly after BOO and which have
never previously been heard. So it is a unique
edition.
One of the songs, POOR HORACE,
was one of the first songs I ever wrote and the
version on Strangedays is the one I recorded on
my first recording session in Regent Sound,
Denmark Street. We recorded 20 songs in that one
session, no multi-takes, no quantizing, no gates
and compressors…
BOO will also be available here
on Ravishing Rhymes Records, available on my
website, but will not be available until the end
of October.
And now to the 21st century. I
have been finishing songs I have had lying
around in various cupboards and sketchy,
half-remembered recordings.
I have also just placed a
selection of songs on my Ravishing Rhymes
website with the view to offering them to other
artists for recording. I have deliberately left
them unadorned and unarranged to allow producers
and artists to hear the bare bones and structure
and essential feel, so they can make up their
own minds about what sort of treatment or style
to slot into.
I have always felt that if a
song works when sung in a room minus all sundry
trimmings, then it can potentially fit any
category. Oh, and how I dislike categories!
So any young artists out there,
looking for material, get straight to RR website
and whatever you hear there will be a continuous
updating of new songs to add over the coming
months.
Plus, I have started having jazz
piano lessons. Watch this space.
Bye for now.
|
