Before & After: Album Art 10

Before:

Countess Shirvanskaya’s Crime, Ivane Perestiani, 1926

After:

The Sound, Jeopardy, 1980

Great News For Fans of The Sound and Adrian Borland: Documentary Film & Boxset!

A couple bits of Sound/Borland news have crept out recently, and considering Adrian's consistent underdog status, I need to do what I can to help spread the word. First off, long running & excellent fansite, Brittle Heaven, has been updated and redesigned. It looks terrific.

Secondly, they've announced the imminent release (available April 14) of a Sound boxset. Containing four discs, its definitely something for you collectors out there. The track lists is as follows:

DISC ONE - JEOPARDY

1. I Can’t Escape Myself
2. Heartland
3. Hour Of Need
4. Words Fail Me
5. Missiles
6. Heyday
7. Jeopardy
8. Night Versus Day
9. Resistance
10. Unwritten Law
11. Desire
12. Physical World (Physical World EP)
13. Brute Force (B-Side Of ‘Heyday’ Single)
14. Heartland (Live Instinct EP)
15. Brute Force (Live Instinct EP)
16. Jeopardy (Live Instinct EP)
17. Coldbeat (Live Instinct EP)
18. Heartland (BBC Session October 1980)
19. Unwritten Law (BBC Session October 1980)
20. Jeopardy (BBC Session October 1980)
21. I Can’t Escape Myself (BBC Session October 1980)

DISC TWO - FROM THE LION’S MOUTH

1. Winning
2. Sense Of Purpose
3. Contact The Fact
4. Skeletons
5. Judgement
6. Fatal Flaw
7. Possession
8. The Fire
9. Silent Air
10. New Dark Age
11. Point Of No Return (Single B-side)
12. Hot House (Single B-side)
13. Coldbeat (Single B-side)
14. New Dark Age [Live]
15. Fatal Flaw (BBC Session November 1981)
16. Skeletons (BBC Session November 1981)
17. Hothouse (BBC Session November 1981)
18. New Dark Age (BBC Session November 1981)

DISC THREE - ALL FALL DOWN

1. All Fall Down
2. Party Of The Mind
3. Monument
4. In Suspense
5. Where The Love Is
6. Song And Dance
7. Calling The New Tune
8. Red Paint
9. Glass And Smoke
10. We Could Go Far
11. The One And A Half Minute Song (All Fall Down Sessions)
12. Sorry (All Fall Down Sessions)
13. As Feeling Dies (All Fall Down Sessions)
14. We Could Go Far (unreleased original version)
15. Plenty (This Cover Keeps Reality Unreal EP)
16. ‘Neath Dancing Waves (This Cover Keeps Reality Unreal EP)
17. Amber (This Cover Keeps Reality Unreal EP)
18. Scapegoat In A Country Churchyard (This Cover Keeps Reality Unreal EP)

DISC FOUR - BBC LIVE IN CONCERT

1. Originally broadcast 21st November 1981
2. BBC Intro - Pete Drummond
3. Unwritten Law
4. Skeletons
5. Fatal Flaw
6. Winning
7. Sense Of Purpose
8. Heartland
9. New Dark Age
10. Originally broadcast 15th June 1985
11. BBC Intro - Pete Drummond + Intro music
12. Golden Soldiers
13. Under You
14. Total Recall
15. Burning Part Of Me
16. Whirlpool
17. Missiles

* releasedate 14^th April 2014 - pre-order

THE SOUND - JEOPARDY + FROM THE LION’S MOUTH + ALL FALL DOWN + BBC LIVE IN CONCERT

•    This comprehensive 4CD box set presents the perfect opportunity to reappraise the career of The Sound – the frequently overlooked London quartet who could perhaps should have had an impact on the post-punk era on the level achieved by the likes of Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen or The Cure.

•    Across four CDs in wallets in a clamshell box are “Jeopardy”, “From The Lion’s Mouth” and “All Fall Down”, the three legend-enshrining LPs they recorded for Korova and WEA between 1980 and 1982. The albums are supplemented with rarities, b-sides, the recordings with Kevin Hewick, and BBC radio sessions. The fourth CD contains the BBC live in concert recordings.

•    Put together with input from band members Mike Dudley and Graham Bailey as well as Adrian Borland’s father Bob, the box also contains a 36 page booklet with annotation by Tim Peacock of Record Collector, as well as the lyrics and ephemera.

And lastly, but perhaps most importantly, there's going to be a documentary which is currently in a crowdfunding phase. Looking to be about 80 minutes long, the film is tentatively titled, "Walking In The Opposite Direction." A trailer is below, and more info can be found here, and on Facebook. Lets pray the filmmakers are able to complete & release the film!

Happy birthday Adrian Borland! (In remembrance)

Visit Brittle Heaven

In memory of Adrian Borland - gone 12 years today

6 December 1957 – 26 April 1999

Winter

I'D LIKE TO SLEEP ONE HUNDRED DAYS

MY FEELING HAS GONE, FLESH COLD AND NUMB

I'M STARING INTO WINTER

ALL'S SLOWING DOWN, SNOW IN THE WHEELS

FROST ON THE GROUND, ICE CUTS THE SEAL

THAT OPENS UP OLD WOUNDS

THAT LETS IN THE WINTER

MEMORIES AND HOPES ARE ALL THAT I HAVE

BUT ARE THEY ALL I NEED, WILL THEY SEE ME

THROUGH THIS WINTER?

I'D LIKE TO SLEEP ONE HUNDRED DAYS

MY REASON HAS GONE, FLESH COLD AND NUMB

AT LEAST LET ME SLEEP THROUGH THE WINTER

Total Recall

It's all such a blur when time goes so quickly

Trying to hang on to

The way that you'd like things to stay

You trace back the seconds

Recall the details

From someone will, to someone does

To someone did, you know I did

Oh there must be a hole in your memory

But I can see

I can see a distant victory

A time when you will be with me

You cut me off just as I was starting to speak

The language you keep hidden away

It's just like the question on everyone's lips

But it's not on mine

Where all you'll find is a twisted smile

From another time

Another time, another time

Oh there must be a hole in your memory

But I can see

I can see a distant victory

A time when you will be with me...

Another time, another time

Oh there must be a hole in your memory

But I can see

I can see a distant victory

A time when you will be with me

There'd be another time, another time

Oh there must be a hole in your memory

But I can see

I can see a distant victory

A time when you will be with me

I can see but there's got to be another time

It's got to be...

More Sound(s) with Adrian Borland

Earful of Noize has made more out-of-print material from Adrian Borland & the Sound available.

Click here for the following:

1. Adrian Borland's complete 2 Meter Sessions, from the Dutch TV Music Series
2. Adrian Borland's 5:00AM - his last solo album before his death
3. Adrian Borland Live In Brussels, 1992 (2 discs worth!)

As always, visit Brittle Heaven - official website for Adrian & the Sound.

Buy Adrian Borland & the Sound:

The Sound - Live 1984

As I've stated before, I love Adrian Borland & the Sound.

All around excellent blog, Egg City Radio, has posted a great live set from the Sound from 1984. It doesn't have any more specifics than that but get on over there & download it!

Adrian Borland - Darkest Heart (MP3, from the Amsterdam Tapes)

Visit Brittle Heaven - the official website of Adrian Borland.

Buy Adrian Borland - solo & with the Sound:

Adrian Borland & the Sound

Here's a great little video history of one of my all time favorites, Adrian Borland & the Sound. Adrian was an amazingly sensitive soul who never got the commercial attention he should have as a recording artist, but in the way all of the best cult artists do, he'll always have an extremely special place in the hearts of his fans & those who are lucky enough to hear his music. More than many others, his music encapsulates (and articulates) what my (and a small group of friends) love of music has always been...this is The Sound:


Listen to Party of the Mind, Total Recall, and Sense of Purpose by the Sound.

PARTY OF MY MIND

I invite you to the party of my mind
An invitation to the party of my mind

Some talk, some laugh
Some go out for air
In the party of my mind
They'll all be there
All my friends will be there
In the party of my mind

There's a room for us
In the party of my mind
A place to be, a place to be found
A room without light
A room whith lights that blind
These ideas I invite
To the party of my mind

Won't you come in and invite love
Won't you come in, invite your anarchist friend
Won't you come in, anything can happen
Won't you come in, stay till the end

There's a disturbance over by the stairs
And her face looks round for me
Her eyes say something's going wrong
Some things aren't how they should be

I invite you to the party of my mind
An invitation to the party of my mind

Some talk, some laugh
Some go out for air
In the party of my mind
We'll all be there
Everyone will be there
Everyone will be there

Visit Brittle Heaven - Official website of Adrian Borland & the Sound