Gareth Williams & Mary Currie - Flaming Tunes (1985) FULL ALBUM

Life And Living Records - LALR 06
2009
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00:00 01 Another Flaming Tune
02:26 02 Beguiling The Hours
06:41 03 The Best Weapon
10:15 04 A To B
14:08 05 Breast Stroke
17:43 06 Raindrops From Heavens
25:28 07 Restless Mind
29:42 08 B To A
33:41 09 Golden Age
40:23 10 It's Madness
45:24 11 Generous Moon
Flaming Tunes' sole release is perhaps the finest elegy to the '80s home recording ethos that you've never heard. Originally released in 1985 on cassette (with individually hand-colored covers), this self-titled album grew out of the collaboration between childhood friends Gareth Williams and Mary Currie.
Williams is best known as a member of English art-rock band This Heat. After leaving the group in the early '80s, he travelled to India where he studied classical Kathakali dance - an experience that would profoundly shape the music of Flaming Tunes.
In an old Victorian house in South London, the duo recorded during the day while Currie's young son attended school and Williams conducted tape treatments at night. They were joined by various guests including This Heat guitarist Charles Bullen as well as long-term collaborators Martin Harrison and Rick Wilson.
Using whatever instruments they had on hand (clarinet, piano, bells, etc.), Flaming Tunes create lo-fi melodies around simple arrangements, oblique rhythms and densely layered natural sounds. The results are a mesmeric collage of instrumental daydreams and sideways pop songs, floating into one another in a hazy confluence of late '60s Canterbury psych-folk and early Residents experimentation.
All of these beguiling elements converge in a personal manner, quietly insistent in listeners' ears like the blood pulsing in one's veins on a warm summer day.
source: bandcamp

[@psychonaut1176]

A Haunting masterpiece.

[@leepicnerd6171]

Breast Stroke is such a great song! Thanks for uploading

[@BinocularRivalry]

Highly recommended on vinyl, which has thankfully been recently rereleased.

[@ferkiii]

does the vinyl come with lyrics by any chance? Ive been trying to find the lyrics to Restless Mind

[@BinocularRivalry]

@@ferkiii I don't recall there being lyrics unfortunately

[@ferkiii]

@@BinocularRivalry im so sad, ive been trying to find the lyrics and just cannot

[@drackaris_]

@@ferkiii To the best of my ear:
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My body moves forward
This restless mind runs back
Its just like a banner that flaps in the wind
You've got to work to hold onto to it.
This body moves forward
My restless mind runs back
It's just like a banner that flaps in the wind
You've got to work to hold onto to it.
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My interpretation is that it's about meditation / mindfulness.

[@littlegamer8006]

Very charming, actually original and surprising music

[@OysterWard]

thanks for uploading this

[@user-zy4zm8mr7r]

oooouuch!!! nice

[@croiners4166]

Very interesting! Never heard of till now.❤