Wohoooow...
Who would have thought this...? ANDY PAWLAK's truly lost and found pre-Shoebox demos will be released on Firestation Records on 22nd February! Pre-order NOW!!!
It will include the "In The Kitchen" demos plus 12 previously unreleased and actually lost tracks.
Dear Readers,
great ANDY PAWLAK is planning to release the Bonus Tracks from the Single releases of "Shoebox" PLUS (with a little luck) truly lost (and recently found) tracks from the pre-Shoebox era.
Andy will go through the new old tracks and see what fits and is ready to be released.
The bundle will hopefully be available on CD and a Double-Vinyl set from Firestation Records ! Ain't that brilliant news?
Hope you all are fine out there.
Cheers, the monomod
ANDY PAWLAK finished his new album and it will be available as a download on
iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and other download services from
1st December 2017!!!
Buy it here!!!!!
It's influenced by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm.
There is a YouTube channel to promote the album here.
I know, a lot of you waited very patiently and now it's time for your reward.
I already wrote a bit about the album in an earlier post.
The album is calm and very emotional. Stories being told and full of love.
I took the cover picture in February this year. No photo shopping or else. Just cropping and labeling. The colours are like the cold winter morning actually was.
ANDY PAWLAK Sasquatches And Synthesizers (2017) 01 Stoneridge 02 Here for a reason 03 Between breaths 04 Lublin 05 Son 06 Sasquatches and Synthesizers 07 Clover 08 September
It will be called "Sasquatches And Synthesizers" - and it's gonna be a wonderful work of art,mainly with piano and strings.
I had the honour to contribute the artwork. What do you think?
The album is still in progress and will be available on iTunes and similar services this year.
...the first seven songs are finished... (12June2017) and number five to seven are songs with vocals! Finally Andy is going to sing again. And I hate to keep it for myself because it is so wonderful but I have to!
ANDY PAWLAK's compilation of demos "Blood And Feathers" and his pre-Shoebox demos "In The Kitchen" are now available on iTunes and Amazon as downloads.
By the end of summer "In The Kitchen" will be available on vinyl as well as a strictly limited and numbered edition on FIRESTATION RECORDS from Germany.
The cover of "Blood And Feathers" is hand painted by ANDY PAWLAK himself.
The track list of "Blood And Feathers": 01 Edith 02 Fumes 03 Girl In The Rain 04 Losing The Feeling 05 Walking 06 Wish You'd Believe 07 Blood And Feathers
Check Andy's website for future information on the vinyl release here.
Today 30 years ago, the great ANDY PAWLAK recorded his wonderful, wonderful demos and we all would love to celebrate this day and say "Thank You!"
ANDY would like to add this:
"I remember doing the demos like it was yesterday, they were recorded in my tiny kitchen in my bedsit in whitley bay. I borrowed my mate Johns ghetto blaster and stood and recorded all the songs live straight onto cassette. no overdubs all live. I suppose those demos pretty much changed my life really. Not long after I signed to Chrysalis publishing and Phonogram Records. great times and great memories. I wish I could do the whole thing again. All the best Andy"
I know that a lot of readers are keen on more songs from great ANDY PAWLAK.
Some interesting background information from Andy:
"Is it is full of dropouts and pops 'cos it really is a DEMO but I totally dig the song. This is the type of thing that was going to be on the album after "Shoebox". This one managed to survive and not get destroyed."
So you might get an idea of how the album would have sounded. Download from Andy's site here.
Dear listeners, followers, friends and ANDY PAWLAK-addicts.
As announced ANDY wanted to take the chance to answer a few questions that are frequently asked here.
"Any plans to record something in the future?"
The simple answer is I just dont know. I was pretty badly burned by Universal after "Low Beat Folk" and I just thought fuck it.
I have always tried so hard with my songs and I thought enough is enough. I ain't touched a guitar in a while but you never know the feeling might come back. That's the strange thing about song writing - it comes when it comes, I dont really have any control over it,
I'm just the sucker who gets to write it down.
"Why was there no follow up after Shoebox?"
There was! and it was good but the record company didn't like it. It was a lot of very hard work wasted. It was more guitar based than "shoebox" more mature and tougher. There was some good songs that will never be heard. I was so upset I destroyed all the demos.
Thats when I decided to fuck off for a few years and went to San Francisco to do my helicopter stuff. (From an earlier mail: I had just got out of my first record deal with Phonogram and fancied a change of direction so I grabbed my suitcase and a guitar and moved to San Francisco to to go to flight school. It took 7 months to get my commercial licence then I trained to become a flight instructor.I stayed in California about 5 years then came back to London and signed with Island Records to do Low Beat Folk. I had many amazing adventures flying, one of the best was flying to Michael Jacksons house (twice), and spending the afternoon pissing about in his golf cart around the ranch in never never land.)
"Why was Low Beat never released?"
Well for me that's the big question. I did 5 or so years in California and started to write again so I moved back to London to get a deal.
One of my dreams had always been to sign with Island Records, so I finished the album and put a band together called "Monkey".
Island went for it and" Low Beat Folk" was recorded. It took 3 years to write and record and I was so proud of the work we had all done..... Then out of the blue, Island were bought out by Universal and they dropped the project after spending a lot of money on it. I was so fucking gutted. I went to New York and secured a deal for it within 2 weeks. The contracts arrived, and I was about to sign, when I got word from Universal legal dept that they would not allow the recordings to be used. The Mother Fuckers effectivley shut us down. It broke my heart...
Thanks so much, Andy! If you readers have any more questions let me know.
Today's song...:
This one is an incredible song from the album "Tales From The Monkeyshed" recorded under the name SUBDELUXE.
The album is available at iTunes (here) or sooner or later on THIS IS INDIE. Of course with ANDY PAWLAK's permission.
A very poetic piece of art. It's just a feeling I get It's just the way that you move It's just a feeling I get I'll be left in your fumes...
From the "PS1 sessions"...: "Me and Scott did this DEMO called "Fumes" in his bedroom. I think its quite a good song. We found the drums on an old playstation 1 game so we looped them for a laugh. Obviously the drums are far too loud for the track but it is a VERY rough demo. We set the playstation away and just played over the top, good fun. Anyway let me know what you think." - And that means YOU READERS!
Another song to be presented for the first time ever to the astonished world of ANDY PAWLAK fans.
What I can tell you about the circumstances of the recording is: "We (Andy & Scott) found the drums on an old playstation 1 game so we looped them for a laugh. I sampled an accordian from a Edith Piaf song and we played over the top. It is a VERY ROUGH DEMO but the song is ok."
There is no such thing as an unreleased ANDY PAWLAK album called "BOUNCING OFF THE SATELLITES". Well, it is - if you prefer it like this - unreleased AND not even recorded and not planned. (There is one from the B-52's.)
To quote Andy: "I have heard about Bouncing Off The Satellites but it was not me, pity cos it's a good title!"
But to give you some comfort in your grief, let me offer you this unreleased wonderful song from ANDY PAWLAK - On A Spinning Rock (download mp3)
EXTREMELY rare stuff from great ANDY PAWLAK!!! These songs are demos from 1985 and have never been released except on a tape that was sold by ANDY PAWLAK personally. The songs are not available anywhere else and haven't even been released in different version.
The download will be available for a limited time only. For hardcore collectors!!!
ANDY PAWLAK - In The Kitchen (1985) 01 Sunhine Girl 02 Waiting For The Fire 03 Blue and Grey 04 Perfect Days 05 This Our 85 06 Jazz Guitar
