A-Z [LP]

Colin Newman - A-Z [LP]

Colin Newman’s 3 classic early 80’s solo albums A-Z provisionally entitled the singing fish & Not To originally released on Beggars Banquet / 4AD re-released on his own new imprint Sentient Sonics. VINYL - unavailable for many years—remastered original albums on single vinyls. CD - the 3 remastered original albums each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks b-sides & demos - quite a lot of which have never been released - released as 3 double digipacks.These albums were recorded and released between 1980 & 1982 in a “post 154” rush of activity. While all the albums bear the name Colin Newman they differ in that A-Z & Not To were recorded as “band” albums with Colin being joined by Wire’s Robert Grey Mike Thorne (who also produced as he had the first 3 Wire albums) & Desmond Simmons on A-Z and Robert Desmond & Simon Gillham on Not To. provisionally entitled the singing fish was more an “actual” solo album in that everything was played by himself. Colin produced the latter 2 albums with Steve Parker engineering.A–Z (LP tracklist) 1. I’ve Waited Ages 2. & Jury 3. Alone 4. Order for Order 5. Image 6. Life on Deck 7. Troisième 8. S-S-S-Star Eyes 9. Seconds to Last 10. Inventory 11. But No 12. B