About the Artist
Mike Thorne delivered many innovative and successful recordings, from Soft Cell's Tainted Love to 'Til Tuesday's Voices Carry. Later, he realized that he was becoming bored making records to a marketing specification, and so promptly retired from commercial record production four years ago. Now, Mike Thorne presents to the musical community his own creative vision: Thorne.
Mike Thorne's retirement from hired-gun record production, after a career which placed his production credit on perhaps 25 million records worldwide, is final. However, his record-making artistry continues, thanks to his tightly-integrated group of co-conspirators, and two further albums are already in the planning stage.
Thorne's online label The Stereo Society was built upon the premise that technology and communications should offer the maximum creative support for new and unusual artists, and firmer control over their own artistic and commercial progress. The Stereo Society is a return to the spirit that believes there is always a grass-roots, or street way of making and presenting new music.
Album Description
Mike Thorne retired from commercial record production four years ago, having delivered many innovative and successful recordings, from Tainted Love to Voices Carry. Sprawl, his own first album, features huge vocal arrangements contributed by Kit Hain, Sarah Jane Morris, Lene Lovich and the three-woman downtown New York group BETTY. The instrumental sound centers on keyboards from Mike Thorne, intense and unusual horn arrangements powered by the Uptown Horns, and raucous drums from Allan Schwartzberg. The result is a sound heard nowhere else. Tracks include two unrecorded Marianne Faithfull songs(from her rock+roll period), Pretty Vacant (the Sex Pistols, 1976) and an exclusive translation of Le Ballet (originally a seductive French language song from Cline Dion).
Check out the artist's website:
http://stereosociety.comTrack List:
1. Intro: Coming Quietly
2. Self-Impoed Exile
3. You Got Me Anyway
4. Pretty Vacant
5. First Love Song
6. Interlude 1
7. Natural Beauty
8. A Flower Opens Gently By
9. Black Lace Shoulder
10. Toys Take Over
11. Interlude 2
12. Ships that Pass in the Night
13. From me To You
14. Le Ballet
15. Sexual Terrorist
16. Outro: Going Gently
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