Description
Remastered, doublevinyl, expanded version of Marc Almond rsquos 1991 album lsquoTenement Symphonyrsquo.Featuring the actual Trevor Horn produced lsquoTenement Symphonyrsquo sequence restored as was his original intention with the dramatic statement of the orchestral lsquoPreludersquo as a precursor to the intoxicating energy of lead hit single, lsquoJackyrsquo, as written by Jacques Brel.lsquoTenement Symphonyrsquo was an attempt, at the time, to make the definitive Marc Almond album as masterminded by Warner Music UKrsquos then chairman Rob Dickins . The effect of the album was meant to be like looking through the windows of different rooms in a tenement building and hearing a bouquet of narrative songs about disparate characters residing therein. It saw the first postbreakup rekindling of the songwriting partnership with Soft Cellrsquos Dave Ball with The Gridrsquos Richard Norris on the three technotorch tracks lsquoMeet Me In My Dreamrsquo, lsquoIrsquove Never Seen Your Facersquo and UK hit lsquoMy Hand Over My Heartrsquo. It was an album that also featured three co writes with Marcrsquos longstanding collaborator and arranger Billy McGee Marc amp The Mambas, The Willing Sinners on the emotionally charged tracks lsquoVaudeville amp Burlesquersquo, lsquoBeautiful Brutal Thingrsquo and lsquoChampagnersquo. In this resequencing of the album, to enable optimal mastering, lsquoChampagnersquo now opens the predominantly lsquobonus tracksrsquo second disc, the other songs were Bsides to the albumrsquos three hit singles, lsquoJackyrsquo UK17, My Hand Over My Heartrsquo UK33 and lsquoThe Days Of Pearly Spencerrsquo UK4. Many of these Bsides feature such stellar songwriting that they could have easily created a double album back in the day to showcase all the contemporaneous involved talents of Trevor Horn, The Grid, John Coxon and Billy McGee. This special double, coloured vinyl edition for fans provides a glimpse into how such a release might actually have panned out
