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WILLIAMS, GARETH & MARY CURRIE - Flaming Tunes

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Life and Living Records LALR 06 Release Year: 2009 Note: re-issue of MC from 1985 from this project by GARETH WILLIAMS (original THIS HEAT member until early 1980) and MARY CURRIE; for the first time on CD, comes with 16p. booklet; GARETH WILLIAMS only solo-release outside THIS HEAT and features amazing avantgardish song-writing Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Flaming Tunes, the 1985 cassette release by Gareth Williams and Mary Currie, finally gets its first CD release. Where possible we have gone back to the original crumbling masters which have been lovingly baked to bring you the best possible audio. It also comes with a 16 page booklet which includes Gareth Williams' handwritten lyrics and some sumptuous visuals." [label info] www.lifeandlivingrecords.com "Flaming Tunes' sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the '80s home recording ethos that you've never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), this self-titled album grew out of the collaboration between childhood friends Gareth Williams and Mary Currie. Williams is best known as a member of English art-rock band This Heat. After leaving the group in the early '80s, he travelled to India where he studied classical Kathakali dance – an experience that would profoundly shape the music of Flaming Tunes. In an old Victorian house in South London, the duo recorded during the day while Currie's young son attended school and Williams conducted tape treatments at night. They were joined by various guests including This Heat guitarist Charles Bullen as well as long-term collaborators Martin Harrison and Rick Wilson. Using whatever instruments they had on hand (clarinet, piano, bells, etc.), Flaming Tunes create lo-fi melodies around simple arrangements, oblique rhythms and densely layered natural sounds. The results are a mesmeric collage of instrumental daydreams and sideways pop songs, floating into one another in a hazy confluence of late '60s Canterbury psych-folk and early Residents experimentation. All of these beguiling elements converge in a personal manner, quietly insistent in listeners' ears like the blood pulsing in one's veins on a warm summer day." https://flamingtunes.bandcamp.com/album/flaming-tunes