the Lorraine Bowen Experience Oh! What A Star!
Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 142.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10895
Approximate release date: December 11, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $13.99 [Out of Stock]
List price:$16.97
Distributor/label description(s):
Lorraine Bowen description:
I was very honoured to be asked to be part of Siesta's eclectic music collections. They've chosen all my favourites from 2 albums, Greatest Hits One and Two, the more beautiful of my characterful output that I wrote inthe 90s and 2 albums that are very close to my heart.
I've always written songs. I love the idea of THE song - a complete art form of music and lyrics happening in around 3 minutes. What a beautiful thing - all mapped together like a crossword puzzle. I enjoy experimenting with structures and forms. Do you always have to have a chorus? Or can you still make something effective by other means? It's a constant joy to find other ways of doing things.
I also love performing. I love whipping up a crowd and making them laugh and sing-a-long. I enjoy people whistling my tunes as they leave a venue.
Recording songs on a budget can be a blessing in disguise. You have to use all the resources with much more imagination. It's exciting to do arrangements with minimal resources. It makes you think much more than if you had a whole orchestra at your fingertips. I feel sorry for some young pop-stars manipulated by money conscious record companies. They'll never have the hilarious adventures of getting your mate over to play the guitar, getting it wrong and keeping the mistakes in!!
So here are a few lines about some of the songs. I Love London is a passionate outburst of joy for my city. Either walking round Soho at ten in the morning or 3pm at night is a wonder of eccentric characters and busy goings-on. Steeped in history, I wanted to capture all of the swinging 60s London feeling, plus some modern references and I feel quite proud of the end result.
Ice-cream lady is me watching the world from behind the net curtains. I'm not interested in gossip and tittle-tattle but I love imagining what some people get up to -secret lives, strange goings-on- what better than to conjure up a story about the very proper ice-cream lady that used to turn up every Sunday afternoon to sell her wares!
The two bicycle songs are written out of my sheer joy of cycling. The bicycle is a fabulous way to get from A to B - total independence of incarcerated metal and the harder you push the faster you go! An analogy of life itself! Matching bikes was written when I saw two people going along with exactely the same bikes and gear on - fabulous! Celebrate cycling times two!
You've got three bed songs here. Cup of Tea in bed, Clean sheets and Kippers for Breakfast - three unashamedly romantic love songs in a bedroom setting. Of course there's always a tongue-in-cheek humour in my lyrics and I hope you like the rhyme "After a bath even better, you'll find you won't need your sweater".
Of course, sometimes it's nice to write songs about nothing in particular and you can see that in Space. I had seen Barbarella and at the time there was talk on the news about living on the moon. Also I always fancy myself being so much more exotic than I actually am so being a songwriter you can do this! Have a go yourself! I heartily recommend it.
It's funny but even though people think my music is quite eclectic I don't think of my music that way at all! It's ordinary subjects inflated to dizzy heights of lo-fi musicality! OK so you won't find huge amounts of love songs. Well that's great isn't it! Why do the world's songwriters always write of love? - why not about cooking crumble? Well I'm trying to address the balance! I'll have to write a paella song next!
Hope you enjoy the songs as much as I did writing and recording them.
Track listing:
1. "Intro By Readers Wives"
2. "Crumble"
3. "I Love London"
4. "Modern Way Of Living"
5. "Richard"
6. "Sunday Afternoon Sex"
7. "Space"
8. "Cup Of Tea In Bed"
9. "I Love The Country"
10. "Outro By Count Indigo"
11. "Matching Bikes"
12. "Julie Christie"
13. "Clean Sheets"
14. "Insect Song"
15. "Floating"
16. "Ice-Cream Lady"
17. "Dreaming Of Summer"
18. "Bicycle Adventure"
19. "Kippers For Breakfast"
Twee Kitten review of Oh! What A Star!
by Keith Mclachlan
The city of Denver is undergoing big changes. It is surely a city on the rise but they are still not immune from the old world problems I experienced in Detroit. At the moment a large public works project promises to ruin the lives of most of Denver's fair citizens and at the same time prove a valuable lesson in planned obsolescence. Seven years to add one lane to 19 miles of expressway and a useless commuter train down the middle. Work has already begun and apparently the most pressing current task is to destroy a few of the bridges that span the thruway, one of these demolitions will likely impact a dear friend greatly. The Steele St. bridge is lifeline to her, you may as well sever her carotid as soon as you would raze this bridge. The emotion in her voice when discussions of next month's planned wrecking take place are absolutely harrowing, I might not be surprised, really, should I wake up that fateful morning of the scheduled execution and find her chained to the bridge begging the Governor (who looks like an overgrown porcelain doll or Malakai from 'Children of the Corn' I am not completely certain yet) for clemency and to spare such a landmark. It's beauty of course lies in its efficiency (Kate's commute is more than halved thanks to this marvel of post-WWII engineering) and does not lie hidden even in the fact that this bridge is as hideous as any other bit of Eisenhower's Interstate system. I imagine in the coming holiday season Kate will be traumatized even more greatly knowing her bridge will not live to see another Christmas, I suppose all I can do is perhaps aide in her memorializing her lost friend. Or I could let her listen to Lorraine Bowen's new cd.
Imagine if Tracey Ullman had formed the Would be Goods and lived across the hall from Baby Bird and Kate was then lucky enough to live just down that same magical hall. If such a scenario were possible the tears from the pain of 'progress' might then be replaced by the tears of joy as seriously goofy songs sound poignant and touching, romantic even as a geeky looking 40-something woman bears her quirk (I was going to say soul but if this is her soul it revolves mostly about food) for anyone with a heart that needs mending. It's on Siesta, it would fit in with the oeuvre recogniable by names like Turner, Tillet and Napoleon. It is classy camp, the lyrics are earthy and deliciously odd. The Music is mostly casio-core with a few string arrangements thrown in to show she is actually almost somebody having once played with Billy Bragg. Mostly it's just a splendid respite from the tyranny of the cult of the Civil Engineer.
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Format: CD.
Year Of Release: 2001.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 142.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M10895
Approximate release date: December 11, 2001.
Genres: Rock/Pop
Price: $13.99 [Out of Stock]
List price:
Distributor/label description(s):
Lorraine Bowen description:
I was very honoured to be asked to be part of Siesta's eclectic music collections. They've chosen all my favourites from 2 albums, Greatest Hits One and Two, the more beautiful of my characterful output that I wrote inthe 90s and 2 albums that are very close to my heart.
I've always written songs. I love the idea of THE song - a complete art form of music and lyrics happening in around 3 minutes. What a beautiful thing - all mapped together like a crossword puzzle. I enjoy experimenting with structures and forms. Do you always have to have a chorus? Or can you still make something effective by other means? It's a constant joy to find other ways of doing things.
I also love performing. I love whipping up a crowd and making them laugh and sing-a-long. I enjoy people whistling my tunes as they leave a venue.
Recording songs on a budget can be a blessing in disguise. You have to use all the resources with much more imagination. It's exciting to do arrangements with minimal resources. It makes you think much more than if you had a whole orchestra at your fingertips. I feel sorry for some young pop-stars manipulated by money conscious record companies. They'll never have the hilarious adventures of getting your mate over to play the guitar, getting it wrong and keeping the mistakes in!!
So here are a few lines about some of the songs. I Love London is a passionate outburst of joy for my city. Either walking round Soho at ten in the morning or 3pm at night is a wonder of eccentric characters and busy goings-on. Steeped in history, I wanted to capture all of the swinging 60s London feeling, plus some modern references and I feel quite proud of the end result.
Ice-cream lady is me watching the world from behind the net curtains. I'm not interested in gossip and tittle-tattle but I love imagining what some people get up to -secret lives, strange goings-on- what better than to conjure up a story about the very proper ice-cream lady that used to turn up every Sunday afternoon to sell her wares!
The two bicycle songs are written out of my sheer joy of cycling. The bicycle is a fabulous way to get from A to B - total independence of incarcerated metal and the harder you push the faster you go! An analogy of life itself! Matching bikes was written when I saw two people going along with exactely the same bikes and gear on - fabulous! Celebrate cycling times two!
You've got three bed songs here. Cup of Tea in bed, Clean sheets and Kippers for Breakfast - three unashamedly romantic love songs in a bedroom setting. Of course there's always a tongue-in-cheek humour in my lyrics and I hope you like the rhyme "After a bath even better, you'll find you won't need your sweater".
Of course, sometimes it's nice to write songs about nothing in particular and you can see that in Space. I had seen Barbarella and at the time there was talk on the news about living on the moon. Also I always fancy myself being so much more exotic than I actually am so being a songwriter you can do this! Have a go yourself! I heartily recommend it.
It's funny but even though people think my music is quite eclectic I don't think of my music that way at all! It's ordinary subjects inflated to dizzy heights of lo-fi musicality! OK so you won't find huge amounts of love songs. Well that's great isn't it! Why do the world's songwriters always write of love? - why not about cooking crumble? Well I'm trying to address the balance! I'll have to write a paella song next!
Hope you enjoy the songs as much as I did writing and recording them.
Track listing:
1. "Intro By Readers Wives"
2. "Crumble"
3. "I Love London"
4. "Modern Way Of Living"
5. "Richard"
6. "Sunday Afternoon Sex"
7. "Space"
8. "Cup Of Tea In Bed"
9. "I Love The Country"
10. "Outro By Count Indigo"
11. "Matching Bikes"
12. "Julie Christie"
13. "Clean Sheets"
14. "Insect Song"
15. "Floating"
16. "Ice-Cream Lady"
17. "Dreaming Of Summer"
18. "Bicycle Adventure"
19. "Kippers For Breakfast"
Twee Kitten review of Oh! What A Star!
by Keith Mclachlan
The city of Denver is undergoing big changes. It is surely a city on the rise but they are still not immune from the old world problems I experienced in Detroit. At the moment a large public works project promises to ruin the lives of most of Denver's fair citizens and at the same time prove a valuable lesson in planned obsolescence. Seven years to add one lane to 19 miles of expressway and a useless commuter train down the middle. Work has already begun and apparently the most pressing current task is to destroy a few of the bridges that span the thruway, one of these demolitions will likely impact a dear friend greatly. The Steele St. bridge is lifeline to her, you may as well sever her carotid as soon as you would raze this bridge. The emotion in her voice when discussions of next month's planned wrecking take place are absolutely harrowing, I might not be surprised, really, should I wake up that fateful morning of the scheduled execution and find her chained to the bridge begging the Governor (who looks like an overgrown porcelain doll or Malakai from 'Children of the Corn' I am not completely certain yet) for clemency and to spare such a landmark. It's beauty of course lies in its efficiency (Kate's commute is more than halved thanks to this marvel of post-WWII engineering) and does not lie hidden even in the fact that this bridge is as hideous as any other bit of Eisenhower's Interstate system. I imagine in the coming holiday season Kate will be traumatized even more greatly knowing her bridge will not live to see another Christmas, I suppose all I can do is perhaps aide in her memorializing her lost friend. Or I could let her listen to Lorraine Bowen's new cd.
Imagine if Tracey Ullman had formed the Would be Goods and lived across the hall from Baby Bird and Kate was then lucky enough to live just down that same magical hall. If such a scenario were possible the tears from the pain of 'progress' might then be replaced by the tears of joy as seriously goofy songs sound poignant and touching, romantic even as a geeky looking 40-something woman bears her quirk (I was going to say soul but if this is her soul it revolves mostly about food) for anyone with a heart that needs mending. It's on Siesta, it would fit in with the oeuvre recogniable by names like Turner, Tillet and Napoleon. It is classy camp, the lyrics are earthy and deliciously odd. The Music is mostly casio-core with a few string arrangements thrown in to show she is actually almost somebody having once played with Billy Bragg. Mostly it's just a splendid respite from the tyranny of the cult of the Civil Engineer.
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