The Magical World of The Strands [LP White Vinyl]

Michael Head & The Strands - The Magical World of The Strands [LP White Vinyl]

White color vinyl version. Highly-anticipated vinyl represses of this stone-cold classic. Now comes with new gold foil embossed artwork. After a couple of demos for the French promoter who paired him with his childhood hero Loves Arthur Lee in 1992, Pale Fountains and Shack legend Michael Head entered a Liverpool recording studio the following year, with a new project in mind, The Strands. Michael teamed up with his brother and lifelong companion, John, his long-time drummer Iain Templeton and two new recruits, Michelle Brown on bass and Les Roberts on flute. The recording sessions would last two years and were only halted because Michael was offered a new major label deal. A deal, not for his current work, but for him to record as Shack again. So it came to be that Stephane Bismuth, the French promoter, was left with 100 or so minutes of a thwarted project, only a third of which had made it to the mixing studio in Sheffield in the summer of 95. Patch-working and weaving rough mixes and sketches -- by engineer Steve Powell, made in Liverpool -- with completed mixes by producer Mark Coyle who had hired an arranger and string section for sessions in Sheffield, Stephane Bismuth founded a new label Megaphone and finally released The Magical World of The Strands, in autumn of 1997. 01. Queen Matilda 02. Something Like You 03. And Luna 04. X Hits The Spot 05. The Prize 06. Undecided (Reprise) 07. Glynys and Jaqui 08. Its Harvest Time 09. Loaded Man 10. Hockens Hay 11. Fontilan