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Hugh Cornwell

Moments Of Madness

    Widely regarded as the poet laureate of the punk era (from his early career fronting the Stranglers to his transition as a solo artist), Hugh Cornwell has built a substantial and singular body of impressive solo albums. His tenth solo opus, Moments of Madness, continues his illustrious output by experimenting with musical genres as his enviable reputation as a wordsmith resounds across this album's songs.

    Self-produced, and playing all of the instruments himself, Moments of Madness' ten incredible tracks finds Hugh flexing his musical muscles with a stripped down, offbeat, reverberating sixties vibe ringing from the seductive melodies and lyrically distinctive perceptions that are indelibly stamped with Hugh’s trademark imagination. Vocally and lyrically a career-best, Hugh has never sounded so good on his tenth solo album.

    A high watermark and a modern-day masterpiece, Moments of Madness is being tipped as the most significant album of Hugh’s career.

    TRACK LISTING

    Coming Out Of The Wilderness
    Red Rose
    I Wannahideinsideaya
    Looking For You
    When I Was A Young Man
    Moments Of Madness
    Beware Of The Doll
    Too Much Trash
    Lasagna
    Heartbreak At Seven

    ‘Rejoice’ is the classic collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz. The record, released to great acclaim in March 2020, became the first posthumous release from Masekela, and the last release from Allen, who sadly passed away a month later.

    For this Special Edition, World Circuit have gone back to the original 2010 mixes and added previously unheard parts from the 2019 sessions to create 8 reimagined bonus mixes. The CD and LP releases also feature a booklet with sleeve notes and photos.

    Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter. The unfinished sessions, consisting of all original compositions by the pair, lay in archive until after Masekela passed away in 2018. With renewed resolution, Tony Allen and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Hugh Masekela’s estate, unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019 at the same London studio where the original sessions had taken place.

    ‘Rejoice’ can be seen as the long overdue confluence of two mighty African musical rivers – a union of two free-flowing souls for whom borders, whether physical or stylistic, are things to pass through or ignore completely. According to Allen, the album deals in “a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew”, with its roots firmly in Afrobeat. Allen and Masekela are accompanied on the record by a new generation of well-respected jazz musicians including Tom Herbert (Acoustic Ladyland / The Invisible), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective), Mutale Chashi (Kokoroko) and Steve Williamson.


    TRACK LISTING

    Disc 1:
    1. Robbers, Thugs And Muggers (O’Galajani)
    2. Agbada Bougou
    3. Coconut Jam
    4. Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)
    5. Slow Bones
    6. Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)
    7. Obama Shuffle Strut Blues
    8. We’ve Landed

    Disc 2
    1. Robbers, Thugs And Muggers (O’Galajani) (Cool Cats Mix)
    2. Agbada Bougou (Cool Cats Mix)
    3. Coconut Jam (Cool Cats Mix)
    4. Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same) (Cool Cats Mix)
    5. Slow Bones (Cool Cats Mix)
    6. Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony) (Cool Cats Mix)
    7. Obama Shuffle Strut Blues (Cool Cats Mix)
    8. We’ve Landed (Cool Cats Mix)

    Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon

    The Side I Never See

    MAT is proud to announce the forthcoming release of ‘The Side I Never See’, by Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon. Hugh forms half of Scottish post-punk duo Vazz, whose work was the subject of a recent retrospective by Belgian label Stroom. Brian is known best for his solo project Anenon, under which name he has released four full length albums and multiple remixes for artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto.

    An improvised recording of Brian playing over the Vazz piece ‘Kazimierz’ catalysed this long-distance collaboration; 2000 feet up a mountain in Andalucia, Hugh heard the recording on a broadcast of Brian’s dublab LA radio show. Immediately taken in by Brian’s playing, the pair soon established contact and began discussing the possibility of working to create something new together.

    The rest, as they say, is history: the results are fully realised in ‘The Side I Never See’, a shimmering suite of ten compositions for piano, soprano saxophone, synthesizer and guitar. In Hughs words… ‘so, what is it? It’s Ambient-Punk, Abstract-Jazz, Disaffected-Classical, it’s whatever the fuck you want it to be!’ :-)

    ‘The Side I Never See’ will be released on Melody As Truth in early August 2021, as always on vinyl and digital. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, Artwork by Michael Willis.

    TRACK LISTING

    Rocco
    Observation Point
    Myxomorphia
    Source And Origin
    Kazimierz
    Related Objects
    Palace
    Cloudland
    Viridians
    Archangel

    Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela

    Rejoice

      ‘Rejoice’ is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz. Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with FelaKuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter. The unfinished sessions, consisting of all original compositions by the pair, lay in archive until after Masekela passed away in 2018. With renewed resolution, Tony Allen and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Hugh Masekela’s estate, unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019 at the same London studio where the original sessions had taken place.

      ‘Rejoice’ can be seen as the long overdue confluence of two mighty African musical rivers – a union of two free-flowing souls for whom borders, whether physical or stylistic, are things to pass through or ignore completely. According to Allen, the album deals in “a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew”, with its roots firmly in Afrobeat. Allen and Masekela are accompanied on the record by a new generation of well-respected jazz musicians including Tom Herbert (Acoustic Ladyland / The Invisible), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective), Mutale Chashi (Kokoroko) and Steve Williamson.


      STAFF COMMENTS

      Matt says: Relishing in the top ring of the pyramid we find emperors Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela in primo form; whipping up a dazzling eight tracks of afro-beat mayhem that few can rival. Especially poignant and arresting following Masekela's death a couple of years ago; it's a delight to see the musician on top of his game till his dying breadth. They don't make em like they used to!

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Robbers, Thugs And Muggers (O’Galajani)
      2. Agbada Bougou
      3. Coconut Jam
      4. Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be The Same)
      5 Slow Bones
      6 Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)
      7 Obama Shuffle Strut Blues
      8 We’ve Landed

      Hugh Cornwell

      The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell

      The first ever Anthology of his post-Stranglers career.

      Since leaving The Stranglers in 1990, Hugh Cornwell has made a series of well-received solo albums 25 years on from leaving the band, this album brings together 12 (super-high-quality remastered at Abbey Road) choice Cornwell classics taken from the fi rst 6 solo albums, plus one brand new studio recording, “Live It And Breathe It” (CD only) A solo acoustic tour of the UK in November 2015, will support the release of ‘The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell” and will feature many of the songs contained on the album, as well as some other fan favourites, and classics from his time with The Stranglers.

      “New song “Live it and Breathe it has both bark and bite” - MOJO.
      “Cornwell’s pop sensibility remains utterly intact” - Classic Rock.



      TRACK LISTING

      1. Leave Me Alone
      2. Beat Of My Heart
      3. Hot Cat On Tin Roof
      4. Break Of Dawn
      5. Under Her Spell
      6. First Bus To Babylon
      7. Please Dont Put Me On A Slow Boat To Trowbridge
      8. Lay Back On Me Pal
      9. One Burning Desire
      10. Cadiz
      11. Long Dead Train
      12. Get Involved
      13. Live It And Breath It*

      *Bonus Track For CD


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