I would love to know what happened to Meriel Barham. Great and delicate voice, good composer. It's not fair that she just have disappeared from the public eye.
And Pale Saints too. Although 4AD was a great label, that's for sure, they made a lot of terrible decisions in early/mid 90s. We can say easily that they destroyed Heidi Berry and Lisa Germano careers, they gave a very hard time for His Name Is Alive (one of their best selling acts) and Red House Painters. They dropped, acrimoniously, the Cocteaus. Today we know that those struggles were a poisoning mix of the pressure made on the label by their American distributors, the Warner Bros, with the low mental health state of the founder, Ivo Watts-Russell. So, so sad. Now, in 2020 4AD is just a shadow of the past. We have Aldous Harding, The National, Big Thief and more 2 or three very instigating artists. The label become more of the same. The 90s were THE right time.
What a lovely slice of the label's golden years
Thanks for this! You don't happen to have Frank Black's guest hosting slot on 120 Mins from 1994 do you? Or any other 120 Mins episodes or segments?
Sorry, I've uploaded everything I have.
I would love to know what happened to Meriel Barham. Great and delicate voice, good composer. It's not fair that she just have disappeared from the public eye.
Red House Painters got dropped by 4ad shortly after this.
And Pale Saints too. Although 4AD was a great label, that's for sure, they made a lot of terrible decisions in early/mid 90s. We can say easily that they destroyed Heidi Berry and Lisa Germano careers, they gave a very hard time for His Name Is Alive (one of their best selling acts) and Red House Painters. They dropped, acrimoniously, the Cocteaus.
Today we know that those struggles were a poisoning mix of the pressure made on the label by their American distributors, the Warner Bros, with the low mental health state of the founder, Ivo Watts-Russell. So, so sad. Now, in 2020 4AD is just a shadow of the past. We have Aldous Harding, The National, Big Thief and more 2 or three very instigating artists. The label become more of the same. The 90s were THE right time.