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Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thomson

This Is Memorial Device

    Geographic Music are proud to announce the expanded soundtrack to Graham Eatough’s Fringe First award-winning stage adaptation of David Keenan’s 2017 cult novel, This is Memorial Device. Written by Stephen Pastel and Gavin Thomson (formerly of Glasgow band Findo Gask and The Pastels’ resident soundman), the soundtrack comes across as a third iteration of the book, establishing a whole new angle on the myth of Memorial Device through reworked home recordings from the era and expanded versions of music originally scored for the theatre production.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Introduction To Why I Did It
    2. We Have Sex
    3. Occluded By Chemistry
    4. The Most Beautiful House In Airdrie
    5. Square Peg In A Black Hole
    6. I Started Painting Landscapes
    7. What Is A Memorial Device?
    8. Chinese Moon
    9. Footsteps In The Snow
    10. Lights Out For Forever
    11. The Morning Of The Executioners

    The Pastel Waves

    Back In The Land Of The Living

      The Pastel Waves are a Medway-based indie band who fuse their collective influences of New Wave, Indie and Brit Pop.

      Their debut album 'All Things To All People' was released in March 2019 on Trouserphonic Records, with a follow-up digital single 'Ten', and the CD EP 'I Hate Myself For Wanting It' in May 2020.

      In April 2021, the band released 'The Influencers EP' on vinyl via Spinout Nuggets, with four strong tracks, each receiving enough attention to force them to continue recording. Since release from lockdown, the band have a healthy live gig portfolio, and continue to write and record, and 'Back In The Land Of The Living' is a ten solid song long player which proves that the band aren't a one-trick pony.

      From USM's 'Nina Simone: The Philips Years' collection, come the separate LPs. Nina Simone was one of the best soul-jazz / blues singers of the 20th century. Only someone the likes of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith had the power to lay a soul bare like she could, as her stripped-down 'Be My Husband' shows. Naked like a field-holler, this song would later capture the imagination of Jeff Buckley and Antony Hegarty.

      Also on this record are classics such as 'Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out', originally sung by Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday's signature song 'Strange Fruit', as well as a Nina Simone favorite: 'Sinnerman'. There are few songs that capture the Spirit of religion, redemption, and the fear of God as much as this ten-minute race of a song about a man trying to outrun the Devil. It's no wonder it was used in the key-scene of 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and sampled by the likes of Kanye West, Talib Kweli and Felix da Housecat.

      TRACK LISTING

      Be My Husband 3:19
      Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 2:35
      End Of The Line 2:51
      Trouble In Mind 2:37
      Tell Me More And More And Then Some 3:05
      Chilly Winds Don't Blow 3:59
      Ain't No Use 2:35
      Strange Fruit 3:26
      Sinnerman 10:15


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