NEWMAN, COLIN - A - Z (LP)

Colin Newman's 3 classic early 80's solo albums "A-Z", "provisionally entitled the singing fish" and "Not To" originally released on Beggars Banquet / 4AD re-released on his own new imprint Sentient Sonics. Unavailable for many years - the remastered original albums come on single vinyls. These albums were recorded and released between 1980 & 1982 in a "post 154" rush of activity. While all the albums bear the name Colin Newman they differ in that "A-Z" and "Not To" were recorded as "band" albums with Colin being joined by WIRE's Robert Grey, Mike Thorne (who also produced, as he had the first 3 Wire albums) and Desmond Simmons on "A-Z" and Robert, Desmond & Simon Gillham on "Not To". "provisionally entitled the singing fish" was more an "actual" solo album in that everything was played by himself. Colin produced the latter 2 albums with Steve Parker engineering.