Philippe, Louis -& The Night Mail-

Thunderclouds

"I have never done a record quite like this before, with a live band in the studio, though I had always wanted to do it," says Louis Philippe. Coming from this golden-voiced born French- and renaissance man, a Londoner by choice for the last 34 years, this seems quite astonishing. After all, this key figure of the baroque pop/chamber pop genre spent a good part of his life making his own as well as producing, writing, arranging, playing and singing on countless other people's records, be it as house producer and songwriter for Mike Alway's legendary l Records or as a collaborator with kindred spirits such as The High Llamas, Towa Tei, Martin Newell, Big Big Train, Testbild!, The Clientele and Bertrand Burgalat. He is joined by The Night Mail, a three-man band made up of fellow EU-citizen around town/musician/journalist Robert Rotifer on guitar, former Acid Jazz artiste and Weller band member, DJ, producer and walking pop encyclopedia Andy Lewis on bass and Papernut Cambridge supremo, ex-member of Thrashing Doves and Death in Vegas Ian Button on drums.

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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
11-12-2020
Label
Item-nr
544145
EAN
4015698535808
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. LIVING ON BORROWED TIME
2. ONCE IN A LIFETIME OF LIES
3. RIO GRANDE
4. WILLOW
5. FALL IN A DAYDREAM
6. THUNDERCLOUDS
7. LOVE IS THE ONLY LIGHT
8. ALPHAVILLE
9. NO SOUND
10. THE MAN WHO HAD IT ALL
11. THE MIGHTY OWL
12. DO I
13. WHEN LONDON BURNS