A-Z [CD]

Colin Newmans 3 classic early 80s solo albums A-Z, provisionally entitled the singing fish & Not To originally released on Beggars Banquet / 4AD re-released on his own new imprint Sentient Sonics. VINYL - unavailable for many yearsremastered original albums on single vinyls. CD - the 3 remastered original albums each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks, b-sides & demos - quite a lot of which have never been released - released as 3 double digipacks.These albums were recorded and released between 1980 & 1982 in a post 154 rush of activity. While all the albums bear the name Colin Newman they differ in that A-Z & Not To were recorded as band albums with Colin being joined by Wires Robert Grey, Mike Thorne (who also produced, as he had the first 3 Wire albums) & Desmond Simmons on A-Z and Robert, Desmond & Simon Gillham on Not To. provisionally entitled the singing fish was more an actual solo album in that everything was played by himself. Colin produced the latter 2 albums with Steve Parker engineering.AZ (disc 2), tracks 19 were recorded at Riverside Recordings, Chiswick, by Robert, Desmond and Colin on the same sessions as Robert and Colins contributions to the additional 7 given away with Wires 154. Track 10 is Mike and Colin playing the studio piano at the studio where AZ was mixed, and 11 was recorded on the AZ sessions. Both were on the flip side of the single B. Tracks 1217 were recorded solo in Colins flat in West Norwood.AZ (disc 1) 1. Ive Waited Ages 2. & Jury 3. Alone 4. Order for Order 5. Image 6. Life on Deck 7. TroisiËme 8. S-S-S-Star Eyes 9. Seconds to Last 10. Inventory 11. But No 12. B AZ (disc 2) Riverside Demos 1. Life on Deck 2. The Classic Remains 3. Dont Bring Reminders 4. Image 5. Not Me 6. But No 7. TroisiËme 8. Ive Waited Ages 9. Order for Order Studio Recordings 10. Alone on Piano 11. The Classic Remains Home Studio Demos 12. Order for Order 13. Not Me 14. The Classic Remains 15. TroisiËme 16. Standard Practice 17. Part of Our History

• Format Detail: 2CD
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Released: 11/11/16
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• Genre: Rock
• Format: CD