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Release Date Friday 25th October 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Exciting news
Wendy James will be joining us in the shop on Tuesday 5th November 2024 for an Stripped back instore session and signing starting at 7pm
As you may know our shop is pretty tiny so we only have a VERY limited amount of space available for this show - All you have to do to guarantee entry is pre order a copy of the album on any format shown to the side.
No tickets are being issued once ordered your name automatically gets added to our door list
1x Purchase inc 1x entry
Written, produced and mixed by James and recorded in West London and
New York City, 'The Shape Of History' is James' tenth album."My
songwriting has always been a wide mix of sounds, which naturally
refect the different music and references I have and love
My sweet spot is mid-late 70's downtown NYC New Wave Punk: CBGB and Max's
Kansas City. It is from this sound that my taste for sequenced and dark NY and
Euro electro and no-wave evolves.' The Shape Of History' was recorded on Scrubs
Lane, West London with Alex Ward, Harry Bohay and James Sclavunos. I then
went off to NYC and Brooklyn to record the pianos and organs with Dave 'The
Moose' Sherman. Overdubbing continued with Al Lawson at the engineering helm
in his Shepherd's Bush studio and then I went back to Berkeley, CA to mix with
Jesse Nichols before mastering with Fred Kevorkian in Brooklyn NY. I have spent
so much time with this music, I know it note-for-note and I love it and I am so
happy for you to now make it your own".
"The Shape Of History has a lot about love in it, a lot about appreciation of
oneself, one's life and importantly, of others. It is life's arc of starting out,
blooming into something and in some ways maturing. I don't think my music has
got older, I know I've not gone mellow! My attitude can be more ferocious and
fearless than ever, but there is an acquired wisdom, which naturally comes after
having been alive for a few decades! 'The Shape Of History' is a love letter and a
Thank you note to life so far. The culmination of my tenth album is the result of
co- musicians and engineers who I've worked with previously and with whom I
share a language. We know each other, we choose to work together. We enjoy
each other's talent and personalities. There is a happiness, a belonging, when we
meet up, and an open and determined desire to achieve what we know we have
to".
CD Tracks: Sweet Like Love / A Happy Life / Everything Is Magic / May I Kiss You
(Just Enough To Get Us In Trouble) / The Crack And The Boom Of The Creeps
And The Goons / A Big Vicious Rumble / Do You Dig It Do You Love It Is It
Groovy / Don't Let Daylight Into Magic / This Declaration Of Love /
Freedomsville / Step Aside Roadkill / Thankyou For The Time We Shared / The
Shape Of History
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