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Release Info 17-09-12 323 no 2012 323 no 2012 CD PERSBERICHT Brand new album, released September 24 EMI Music are proud to announce the release of Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris’ debut solo/side project album. Entitled ‘British Lion’ and comprising ten songs that Steve and his collaborators have been working on for the past few years between Iron Maiden tours and releases, it is an album that will surprise and delight music fans the world over. With a decidedly heavy rock-vibe this roaring debut paints with a full palette of sounds; brooding, melancholic, righteously indignant and exuberantly heavy. With Kevin Shirley at the mixing helm – whose credits include Iron Maiden as well as Led Zeppelin, Journey and Rush among many others – this is an album to sink your teeth into. From the growling riffage of opening salvo This Is My God to the heavy forlorn balladry of follow-up Lost Worlds which showcases Richard Taylor’s soaring vocals, it’s clear that ‘British Lion’ is an altogether different beast from Maiden. Karma Killer, with its dirge-like muscularity, and Us Against The World, with its massive chorus, demonstrates just how far British Lion has flexed Steve Harris’ considerable musical muscle. Dovetailed with guitarist David Hawkins’ positively gargantuan lyrical guitar melodies, it’s a mere hors d’oeuvre ahead of the epic, riffing-feast of The Chosen Ones, with its swaggering bravado. A World Without Heaven, at a breathtaking seven minutes and infused with progressive elements without ever teetering into self-indulgence illustrates perfectly these songsmiths’ colossal abilities to create a mood and stay there. Supercharged by Steve Harris’ inimitable style, there’s an un-cynical vibe here that’s as refreshing as it is out of place in today’s all- too-categorised music industry. And as far as the name British Lion “I’ve always been proud to be British” explains Steve, “I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t be. It’s a massive part of being me. It’s not like I’m flag-waving or trying to preach, this is not a political statement at all. It’s like supporting your football team, where you come from. I just think it lends itself to some really strong imagery too, and to me it fits in with the sound.” With Iron Maiden, Steve Harris has become one of the most recognised and successful ambassadors for British music on the world stage. Having released 15 studio albums, sold over 85 million records worldwide and played more than two thousand gigs in 58 countries in the band’s thirty-five year career, his appeal is truly global. And now with ‘British Lion’, Steve steps out from Iron Maiden’s illustrious shadow to present a different side of his musical visions. The tracklisting for ‘British Lion’ is as follows: 1.This Is My God 2.Lost Worlds 3.Karma Killer 4.Us Against The World 5.The Chosen Ones 6.A World Without Heaven 7.Judas 8.Eyes Of The Young 9.These Are The Hands 10.The Lesson www.steveharrisbritishlion.com www.ironmaiden.com
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Release Info 17-09-12
323no
2012323no
2012 CDPERSBERICHT
Brand new album, released September 24
EMI Music are proud to announce the release of Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris’ debut solo/side project album. Entitled ‘British Lion’ and comprising ten songs that Steve and his collaborators have been working on for the past few years between Iron Maiden tours and releases, it is an album that will surprise and delight music fans the world over.
With a decidedly heavy rock-vibe this roaring debut paints with a full palette of sounds; brooding, melancholic, righteously indignant and exuberantly heavy. With Kevin Shirley at the mixing helm – whose credits include Iron Maiden as well as Led Zeppelin, Journey and Rush among many others – this is an album to sink your teeth into.From the growling riffage of opening salvo This Is My God to the heavy forlorn balladry of follow-up Lost Worlds which showcases Richard Taylor’s soaring vocals, it’s clear that ‘British Lion’ is an altogether different beast from Maiden.
Karma Killer, with its dirge-like muscularity, and Us Against The World, with its massive chorus, demonstrates just how far British Lion has flexed Steve Harris’ considerable musical muscle. Dovetailed with guitarist David Hawkins’ positively gargantuan lyrical guitar melodies, it’s a mere hors d’oeuvre ahead of the epic, riffing-feast of The Chosen Ones, with its swaggering bravado.
A World Without Heaven, at a breathtaking seven minutes and infused with progressive elements without ever teetering into self-indulgence illustrates perfectly these songsmiths’ colossal abilities to create a mood and stay there. Supercharged by Steve Harris’ inimitable style, there’s an un-cynical vibe here that’s as refreshing as it is out of place in today’s all-too-categorised music industry.
And as far as the name British Lion “I’ve always been proud to be British” explains Steve, “I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t be. It’s a massive part of being me. It’s not like I’m flag-waving or trying to preach, this is not a political statement at all. It’s like supporting your football team, where you come from. I just think it lends itself to some really strong imagery too, and to me it fits in with the sound.”
With Iron Maiden, Steve Harris has become one of the most recognised and successful ambassadors for British music on the world stage. Having released 15 studio albums, sold over 85 million records worldwide and played more than two thousand gigs in 58 countries in the band’s thirty-five year career, his appeal is truly global. And now with ‘British Lion’, Steve steps out from Iron Maiden’s illustrious shadow to present a different side of his musical visions.
The tracklisting for ‘British Lion’ is as follows:1.This Is My God2.Lost Worlds3.Karma Killer4.Us Against The World5.The Chosen Ones6.A World Without Heaven7.Judas8.Eyes Of The Young9.These Are The Hands10.The Lesson
www.steveharrisbritishlion.comwww.ironmaiden.com
2CDPERSBERICHT
R.E.M.’S ‘DOCUMENT’ REMASTERED AND EXPANDED FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 24 BY CAPITOL/I.R.S.
2CD and Digital Release Features Remastered Original Album, Plus a Previously Unreleased Concert Recording
R.E.M. has teamed with Capitol/I.R.S. for the September 24 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary Edition of the band’s 1987 album, Document. The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus a previously unreleased 1987 concert from R.E.M.’s “Work” tour. The commemorative release also adds new liner notes by journalist David Daley, with the 2CD package presented in a lift-top box with four postcards.
R.E.M.’s fifth studio album, Document was recorded by vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry at Nashville’s Sound Emporium. The first of several R.E.M. albums to be co-produced by the band and Scott Litt, Document was also the band’s first to go Platinum and includes the singles “Finest Worksong,” “Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” and “The One I Love,” R.E.M.’s first Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at Number 10 in the U.S., spending 33 weeks on Billboard’s Top 200.
In his 1987 review of the album, Rolling Stone’s David Fricke described Document as “the fifth in a series of singular state-of-our-union addresses by America’s most successful fringe band.” Indeed, Document launches with a call-to-action, as Stipe sings, “The time to rise / Has been engaged” in “Finest Worksong,” bearing witness to history-repeating-itself tactics employed by the country’s elected leaders, evidenced by the Iran-contra hearings, Star Wars missile defense saber-rattling, and a hyper-moralized Congress bent on restricting and regulating controversial language in the arts.
“All you have to do is turn on the TV,” said Peter Buck at the time, “And you’re inundated with complete lies from people who are supposed to be running the country.”
R.E.M. had released four albums in the previous four years, each selling more than the last. With the release of Document, the band found itself at a crossroads of sorts – all but ignored by conservative rock radio and MTV, yet reaching a broad and devoted international audience, sprung from independent media and college radio.
Mike Mills tells Daley in the new edition’s liner notes, “We always felt that if we had a hit, it would be despite us, not because of us.”
As the band’s upward trajectory continued, improbably sandwiching “The One I Love” between Whitney Houston’s “So Emotional” and Jody Watley’s “Don’t You Want Me” on the U.S. singles chart the same week Rolling Stone’s cover hailed R.E.M. as “America’s best rock & roll band”, they launched their “Work” tour in Europe. The concert included in Document’s new edition, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland, reveals a band poised to take over the world.
Document’s 25th Anniversary Edition follows the special edition releases of R.E.M.’s four other I.R.S. albums, including Murmur and Reckoning, released by UMe/I.R.S., and Fables of the Reconstruction and Lifes Rich Pageant, released by Capitol/I.R.S. Audio and video anthologies of the legendary band’s 1980s I.R.S. Records output, And I Feel Fine... The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 and When The Light Is Mine… The Best Of The I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection, respectively, were released by Capitol/I.R.S. in 2006.
CD 1 (digitally remastered original album) 1 Finest Worksong 2 Welcome To The Occupation 3 Exhuming McCarthy 4 Disturbance At The Heron House 5 Strange 6 Its The End Of The World As We Know It
(And I Feel Fine) 7 The One I Love 8 Fireplace 9 Lightnin’ Hopkins 10 King Of Birds 11 Oddfellows Local 151
CD 2 (previously unreleased “Work” tour concert, recorded live in Utrecht, Holland – September 14, 1987) 1 Finest Worksong (4.20) 2 These Days (3.36) 3 Lightnin’ Hopkins (3.43) 4 Welcome To The Occupation (2.52) 5 Driver 8 (4.15) 6 Feeling Gravitys Pull (5.00) 7 I Believe (4.28) 8 The One I Love (4.38) 9 Exhuming McCarthy (3.23) 11 Wolves, Lower (4.23) 12 Fall On Me (3.05) 13 Just A Touch (3.12) 14 Oddfellows Local 151 (5.34) 15 Little America (2.50) 16 Its the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (4.01) 17 Begin The Begin (4.32) 18 Disturbance At The Heron House (3.42) 19 Moral Kiosk (3.02) 20 Life And How To Live It (4.59) 21 So. Central Rain (5.35)
All songs by Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe except “Strange” (Gilbert, Lewis, Newman, Gotobed)
