ペイル・ファウンテンズのマイケル・ヘッドが未発表音源「Poor Jill」「It’s Harvest Time (band ver)」を公開

ペイル・ファウンテンズ（The Pale Fountains）のフロントマン、マイケル・ヘッド（Michael Head）が未発表音源2曲、「Poor Jill」と「It’s Harvest Time (band version)」を公開。試聴可。Michael Head & The Strands名義。この音源は1997年作『The Magical World Of The Strands』から派生したレア音源を収めたアルバム『The Olde World』に収録。発売は海外で6月19日。

『The Olde World』には、『The Magical World Of The Strands』（Michael Head & The Strands名義）のレコーディング・セッション時に制作された未発表音源や、当時の楽曲を新たにミックスした音源を収録します。CD、LP版があり。

「Poor Jill」


「It's Harvest Time (band version)」
https://soundcloud.com/megaphone-5/its-harvest-time-band-version/s-rhHW9

●『The Olde World』

[Tracklist]

☆It’s Harvest Time (band version)
The version of this song on 1997’s 'The Magical World of the Strands' was an acoustic rough mix.
This full band version feels like lifting a veil, uncovering all the hidden tracks from the original recording.

☆Fin, Sophie, Bobby and Lance
Quite typical in style of The Strands sessions, the song has a distinctive jazz feel and after a country-like start veers to improvisation.
The song was recorded again, as Shack on the album ‘The Corner of Miles and Gil’ (2006), with a different melodic line and a more folky tone.

☆Poor Jill
To a few insiders, the song that was most wanting on the 1997 album.
Although it fitted in perfectly, it still lacked a certain something.
Starting afresh in 2014 Mark Coyle managed to produce this excellent new mix on the very first day of the mastering session.

☆Something Like You (quartet)
A strings-only version of this classic from ‘The Magical World of The Strands’.
And a tribute to the beautiful work of Helen Caddick who wrote the arrangement and conducted the quartet.

☆Glynys and Jaqui (acoustic)
An acoustic mix that embellishes the vocal work on the song.

☆Hocken’s Hey (alternate instrumental)
An earlier take of this song from ‘The Magical World of The Strands’ without vocals but with Les’s flute at the forefront.

☆And Luna (acoustic)
A favourite of Mark Coyle’s. An acoustic mix of the original take. This song evokes the aforementioned encounter with West Coast hero Arthur Lee.

☆Lizzie Mullally
The only mix here from the 1995 sessions. Sounding exactly like The Strands especially when compared to the later version by Shack – the B-side of ‘Cup of Tea’ (2006), – yet feeling so different to the 1997 album that it couldn’t fit anywhere, whatever running order was tried.

☆Wrapped up in Honour
A second thought, sparse, new idea trial, shortly after the recording of 1994’s ‘Fontilan’.

☆The Olde World
Another exclusive song from The Strands sessions that testified that Michael Head had not completely chased Shack away from his dreams