PRODUCERS
''MADE IN BASING STREET (BONUS CD), DISC TWO''
MAY 28 2012
80:53
DISC ONE
1 - Freeway/5:12
2 - Waiting For The Right Time/4:12
3 - Your Life/6:23
4 - Man On The Moon/4:00
5 - Every Single Night In Jamaica/5:13
6 - Stay Elaine/3:42
7 - Barking Up The Right Tree/3:17
8 - Garden Of Flowers/4:12
9 - Watching You Out There/5:34
10 - You & I/5:44
DISC TWO
1 - Your Life (Extended)/7:39
2 - Garden Of Flowers (Alternative)/5:51
3 - Seven/3:48
4 - There's Only So Much You Can Do/3:26
5 - Freeway (Extended)/12:05
ABOUT PRODUCERS
There are supergroups, and then there are Producers, arguably the most successful line up of musicians and producers ever. Together, the four members of this exciting new collective of extraordinarily highly regarded producers and artists have, over the past 40 years, scored over 200 hit singles and albums.
So who are Producers?
Step forward Lol Crème, ex-member of brilliant 70s pop group 10cc and one half of hit-makers and production/video duo Godley & Creme, legendary British producer Trevor Horn, award-winning musician, engineer and producer Stephen Lipson and ubiquitous human drum machine Ash Soan.
Producers’ debut album Made In Basing Street doesn’t mark the first time the members have worked together. Trevor (a 10cc fan from way back) and Stephen worked on Godley & Creme’s Cry in 1985, and Lol and Trevor were both members of the late-90s incarnation of the Art Of Noise that created the excellent The Seduction of Claude Debussy album.
Made In Basing Street is named after the street that houses Sarm Studios and was recorded in that legendary West London studio. It grew out of a desire on the part of the four friends and musicians to play live together. The project started in the studio before moving to a series of secret London gigs, ramming the likes of the Camden Barfly to the rafters with guest vocalists including Will Young and Jamie Cullum. The live experience led to recording and writing songs, designed to be performed alongside some of the numerous hits with which they are associated.
The album will comprise 10 new tracks and be released in June 2012.
MEET the Band PRODUCERS
- Lol Creme is one of the few musicians whose career straddles the Merseybeat era and the art-techno 21st century. He was in a series of beat combos in the 60s before enjoying a novelty worldwide hit, Neanderthal Man, with Hotlegs in 1970. There followed a five-year stint, between 1972 and 1976, with the pioneering 10cc, whose singles – The Dean And I, Wall Street Shuffle, Life Is A Minestrone, Rubber Bullets and I’m Not In Love, the latter pair UK number 1s as well as Producers’ live favourites – and landmark albums (10cc, Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!) made them, in terms of ingenuity and technological invention, the greatest British art-pop group between The Beatles and Blur. In 1976 Lol and his main 10cc songwriting partner Kevin Godley left the band to form Godley & Creme, and they enjoyed a run of hits (Wedding Bells, Under Your Thumb, Cry) as well as a parallel career as video directors whose promos for The Police (Every Breath You Take), Duran Duran (Girls on Film), Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Two Tribes) and their own single Cry, were innovative examples of the form that helped define the look of the 80s. Lol has most recently collaborated with Kate Bush (Aerial, 2006) and Pet Shop Boys (Concrete, 2007).
- Trevor Horn CBE is the greatest British record producer since Sir George Martin. If he’d never produced another note after Dollar’s Hand Held In Black And White, Mirror Mirror and Give Me Back My Heart singles and ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love, Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock, Art Of Noise’s Who’s Afraid Of…, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Propaganda’s A Secret Wish and Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm albums he would have earned his place in the history books. The fact that he was also a member of proto-synth duo Buggles (whose Video Killed The Radio Star was a worldwide hit) and of prog-rockers Yes, co-writing and producing their biggest ever single, Owner of a Lonely Heart (a US number 1), and that he has latterly produced everyone from Seal and Simple Minds to tATu, Pet Shop Boys, Boyzone, Charlotte Church, Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams pretty much seals his reputation.
- Stephen Lipson – guitarist, engineer and producer – was Trevor’s right-hand-man in the 80s and his work at Sarm Studios for the ZTT label (for acts including Propaganda, FGTH, Grace Jones and, well, ACT) helped shape the sound of that decade. Working in his own right since the late 80s, Steve has produced Sandi Thom, Jamie Cullum, Paul McCartney’s Flowers in the Dirt, four solo albums by Annie Lennox and engineered the Rolling Stones’ Undercover. He has also produced hits for the likes of Geri Halliwell (It’s Raining Men, UK number 1), S Club 7 (three UK number 1s), Will Young (Leave Right Now, UK number 1), Natalie Imbruglia (Shiver) and Rachel Stevens. In 2011 he was nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Jeff Beck album Emotion and Commotion.
- Ash Soan is one of the UK’s most prolific drummers. His most recent work includes recording with Adele, Cee Lo Green, James Morrison and the last Seal album. He has played on 27 Top 10 albums – 11 of them number 1s – and seven number 1 singles. He has collaborated with Natasha Bedingfield, Siobhan Donaghy and Sandi Thom, he spent the bulk of the 90s drumming with Del Amitri, he joined Squeeze until the band split in 1999, and he has since drummed at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Marianne Faithful, at Glastonbury with Squeeze, and at Party in the Park with Tom Jones. Since 2000, Ash has played in Cuba with Rick Wakeman, Russia with Lisa Stansfield and South Africa with Belinda Carlisle. And in the dance arena, he’s toured the world with Faithless, and played Glastonbury with MJ Cole.
DoWnLoAd
''MADE IN BASING STREET (BONUS CD), DISC TWO''
MAY 28 2012
80:53
DISC ONE
1 - Freeway/5:12
2 - Waiting For The Right Time/4:12
3 - Your Life/6:23
4 - Man On The Moon/4:00
5 - Every Single Night In Jamaica/5:13
6 - Stay Elaine/3:42
7 - Barking Up The Right Tree/3:17
8 - Garden Of Flowers/4:12
9 - Watching You Out There/5:34
10 - You & I/5:44
DISC TWO
1 - Your Life (Extended)/7:39
2 - Garden Of Flowers (Alternative)/5:51
3 - Seven/3:48
4 - There's Only So Much You Can Do/3:26
5 - Freeway (Extended)/12:05
ABOUT PRODUCERS
There are supergroups, and then there are Producers, arguably the most successful line up of musicians and producers ever. Together, the four members of this exciting new collective of extraordinarily highly regarded producers and artists have, over the past 40 years, scored over 200 hit singles and albums.
So who are Producers?
Step forward Lol Crème, ex-member of brilliant 70s pop group 10cc and one half of hit-makers and production/video duo Godley & Creme, legendary British producer Trevor Horn, award-winning musician, engineer and producer Stephen Lipson and ubiquitous human drum machine Ash Soan.
Producers’ debut album Made In Basing Street doesn’t mark the first time the members have worked together. Trevor (a 10cc fan from way back) and Stephen worked on Godley & Creme’s Cry in 1985, and Lol and Trevor were both members of the late-90s incarnation of the Art Of Noise that created the excellent The Seduction of Claude Debussy album.
Made In Basing Street is named after the street that houses Sarm Studios and was recorded in that legendary West London studio. It grew out of a desire on the part of the four friends and musicians to play live together. The project started in the studio before moving to a series of secret London gigs, ramming the likes of the Camden Barfly to the rafters with guest vocalists including Will Young and Jamie Cullum. The live experience led to recording and writing songs, designed to be performed alongside some of the numerous hits with which they are associated.
The album will comprise 10 new tracks and be released in June 2012.
MEET the Band PRODUCERS
- Lol Creme is one of the few musicians whose career straddles the Merseybeat era and the art-techno 21st century. He was in a series of beat combos in the 60s before enjoying a novelty worldwide hit, Neanderthal Man, with Hotlegs in 1970. There followed a five-year stint, between 1972 and 1976, with the pioneering 10cc, whose singles – The Dean And I, Wall Street Shuffle, Life Is A Minestrone, Rubber Bullets and I’m Not In Love, the latter pair UK number 1s as well as Producers’ live favourites – and landmark albums (10cc, Sheet Music, The Original Soundtrack, How Dare You!) made them, in terms of ingenuity and technological invention, the greatest British art-pop group between The Beatles and Blur. In 1976 Lol and his main 10cc songwriting partner Kevin Godley left the band to form Godley & Creme, and they enjoyed a run of hits (Wedding Bells, Under Your Thumb, Cry) as well as a parallel career as video directors whose promos for The Police (Every Breath You Take), Duran Duran (Girls on Film), Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Two Tribes) and their own single Cry, were innovative examples of the form that helped define the look of the 80s. Lol has most recently collaborated with Kate Bush (Aerial, 2006) and Pet Shop Boys (Concrete, 2007).
- Trevor Horn CBE is the greatest British record producer since Sir George Martin. If he’d never produced another note after Dollar’s Hand Held In Black And White, Mirror Mirror and Give Me Back My Heart singles and ABC’s The Lexicon Of Love, Malcolm McLaren’s Duck Rock, Art Of Noise’s Who’s Afraid Of…, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Propaganda’s A Secret Wish and Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm albums he would have earned his place in the history books. The fact that he was also a member of proto-synth duo Buggles (whose Video Killed The Radio Star was a worldwide hit) and of prog-rockers Yes, co-writing and producing their biggest ever single, Owner of a Lonely Heart (a US number 1), and that he has latterly produced everyone from Seal and Simple Minds to tATu, Pet Shop Boys, Boyzone, Charlotte Church, Rod Stewart and Robbie Williams pretty much seals his reputation.
- Stephen Lipson – guitarist, engineer and producer – was Trevor’s right-hand-man in the 80s and his work at Sarm Studios for the ZTT label (for acts including Propaganda, FGTH, Grace Jones and, well, ACT) helped shape the sound of that decade. Working in his own right since the late 80s, Steve has produced Sandi Thom, Jamie Cullum, Paul McCartney’s Flowers in the Dirt, four solo albums by Annie Lennox and engineered the Rolling Stones’ Undercover. He has also produced hits for the likes of Geri Halliwell (It’s Raining Men, UK number 1), S Club 7 (three UK number 1s), Will Young (Leave Right Now, UK number 1), Natalie Imbruglia (Shiver) and Rachel Stevens. In 2011 he was nominated for a Grammy for his work on the Jeff Beck album Emotion and Commotion.
- Ash Soan is one of the UK’s most prolific drummers. His most recent work includes recording with Adele, Cee Lo Green, James Morrison and the last Seal album. He has played on 27 Top 10 albums – 11 of them number 1s – and seven number 1 singles. He has collaborated with Natasha Bedingfield, Siobhan Donaghy and Sandi Thom, he spent the bulk of the 90s drumming with Del Amitri, he joined Squeeze until the band split in 1999, and he has since drummed at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Marianne Faithful, at Glastonbury with Squeeze, and at Party in the Park with Tom Jones. Since 2000, Ash has played in Cuba with Rick Wakeman, Russia with Lisa Stansfield and South Africa with Belinda Carlisle. And in the dance arena, he’s toured the world with Faithless, and played Glastonbury with MJ Cole.
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