Release Date: 06 November 2015
Label: Westpark
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4047179988629
Genres: Pop Singer Songwriter
Description
Steve Skaith was the singer and co-writer of the band Latin Quarter, best known in the UK for the 80s hit single "Radio Africa" and their collaboration with the Zimbabwean group, the Bhundu Boys in the 90's. They had big hits in continental Europe with "New Millioniares", "America For Beginners", "No Rope as long as Time" and others.
The idea for this album was to take some old LQ songs back to the state when they were first written and demoed: just a guitar, a voice, a bit of harmony, a touch of keyboard colour and hey presto! Obviously to do this in a bedroom on a porta-studio in the 1980's is different to now doing it in a proper studio with Steve Jeffries producing and providing that keyboard colour. But trying to capture the spark, the heart of a song with a simple arrangement, is still the same great feeling.
Obviously there are changes apart from the sound quality. At times we approached the songs with a completely different energy. We changed some rhythms. In one case we changed a chorus. But one thing we haven't changed is the lyrics. At times I wondered why I was singing songs about situations that passed many years ago. In the case of 'No Rope as Long as Time' the lyric is actually wrong. Apartheid was dismantled without a war. But to remember where we were, or where we thought we were, can help to remind us where we are now. What has changed and what has not.
Tracklisting
Ray Cooper
Ray Cooper
Oysterband
Faustus
Bellowhead
Ray Cooper
Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Ray Cooper
Martin Sexton
Non Canon
