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Blastfirstpetite's 'Psychopomp for M.T.V.'a 260 page, full colour, hardback book.
[a psychopomp is a 'guide of souls', whose purpose is to escort deceased souls from Earth to The Afterlife] A Limited Edition of 1,000 copies containing:
~ A heart-wrenching collection of photographs from the Vainio family archive.
~ A broad range of artistic contributions (text, photographic and visual remembrances) from Mika's artist friends and collaborators.
~ An Updated and exhaustive Mika discography.
~ Jennifer Lucy Allen's unedited transcript for her The Wire magazine 2013 'Invisible Jukebox' - one of Mika's most animated media responses.
~ A variety of Pansonic ephemera from Paul Smith's own Blast First archives.
+++ an album length exclusive CD of previously unreleased Pansonic performance recordings - 'Turku Moai - live on Rapa Nui'.
( THIS IS NOT A MIKA VAINIO BIOGRAPHY OR MONOGRAPH)
Release Date: 21/06/2019
Through these strange and uncertain times it is sometimes a little hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel but this is where The Moons have stepped in. This long player is an album full of colour and raw songwriting recorded live in the legendary Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios. With cinematic string arrangements and masterclass songwriting from the pen of singer/songwriter Andy Crofts this album will be your happy escape.
'Most of this album had been unintentionally sat in my pocket for quite some time. Songs that I had written and forgotten about or had just lost their way and left unfinished. So that is why I wanted the album to simply be named Pocket Melodies. I had this inner feeling to pull them all together and it turned out my favourite Moons record.' Andy Crofts
Pocket Melodies takes you on a journey of glorious melodies leading you through love, romance, nostalgia, regret and unity.
'I wanted to be true to myself with this record. My best strength is writing melodic pop songs so I just let it all flow as I wanted this album to be soaked in colour and completely natural. There's no pretence, it's just straight up pop songs. I have always worn my heart on my sleeve when it comes to my feelings and I think you can hear this in the lyrics this time.' Andy Crofts
The album features singles Riding Man and Today which received high praise and championed on BBC London and Radio X and a collaboration with Paul Weller on the song Tunnel Of Time.
"I wrote all of the songs on the album except Tunnel Of Time which is a collaboration between myself and Paul Weller. He once approached me with a little idea and we slowly worked at it in dressing rooms etc until I took it away and put it all together. Its a nice little song and im glad it found a home with The Moons." Andy Crofts