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| Krankschaft - The Flame Red Superstar; Krankschaft - The Flame Red Superstar | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 3 2009, 09:55 AM (47 Views) | |
| zeitgeist | Nov 3 2009, 09:55 AM Post #1 |
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Hi Everyone, I thought I'd update you on the Krankschaft album of Robert Calvert songs. We've released it on CD as a Limited (250 copies) Edition with A2 colour poster and glossy photocard, it's also available as an MP3 download, find both versions at http://www.krankschaft.com You can hear samples of every track on the MP3 page, but enough of my ramblings let me leave you with a review posted to our website: "When I was younger Robert Calvert often provided my soundtrack. I was born in industrial Sheffield and from my bedroom window I really could see the canal. I could see the cranes, but it was Bob who made me see them as an X-ray of the Taj Mahal. When I was 17 I'd sneak out at night, take my Dad's Morris Marina and drive over the Pennines, flying in fantasies and glorious solitude. When I heard '..Luminous Green Glow..' I realized I wasn't a nut, other people got it. And then he died. It was like I'd boarded a plane that never took off. Many people felt that loss, not least Fred and Steve of Krankschaft, and 'The Flame Red Superstar' goes a long way towards helping us all feel a little better. All the classics are here but not as you know them. I can't pick a favourite track. From the heaviest version of 'Picket Line' you'll ever hear to a fragile, poignant 'Greenfly and the Rose', it's clear that Steve and Fred love these songs and know exactly how to treat them. This is not a compilation, it's an album. It does what an album should do. It makes you dance, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry. It's an integrated piece of audible art, right down to the silence between the tracks. The sounds are beautifully complemented by Doctor Foxon's excellent package and poster designs. Bob's songs were cruelly orphaned at an early age and like many orphans some of them have been mistreated. One thinks of the poor 'Ejection' dragged out and thrashed before the baying mob. Steve and Fred however have nurtured those songs over the years and now we see them, mature adults, taking their place in the world they were born to inherit. -Miniwood. " |
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