Description
After a couple of demos for the French promoter who paired him with his
childhood hero Love’s Arthur Lee in 1992, Pale Fountains and Shack legend
Michael Head entered a Liverpool recording studio the following year, with a
new project in mind, ‘The Strands’. Michael teamed up with his brother and
lifelong companion, John, his long-time drummer Iain Templeton and two new
recruits, Michelle Brown on bass and Les Roberts on flute. The recording
sessions would last two years and were only halted because Michael was
offered a new major label deal. A deal, not for his current work, but for him to
record as Shack again.
So it came to be that Stephane Bismuth, the French promoter, was left with
100 or so minutes of a thwarted project, only a third of which had made it to
the mixing studio in Sheffield in the summer of ‘95. Patch-working and weaving rough mixes and sketches – by engineer Steve Powell, made in Liverpool – with completed mixes by producer Mark Coyle who had hired an arranger and string section for sessions in Sheffield,
Stephane Bismuth founded a new label Megaphone and finally released ‘The
Magical World of The Strands’, in autumn of 1997.
Tracklist:
Queen Matilda
Something Like You
And Luna
X Hits the Spot
The Prize
Undecided (Reprise)
Glynys and Jaqui
It's Harvest Time
Loaded Man
Hocken's Hey
Fontilan
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