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THE SHAPE OF HISTORY RELEASE DATE! AND THE FIRST SINGLE ‘FREEDOMSVILLE’ OUT NOW!The Shape of History
July 26, 2024
Here it is then! My 10th album!
1. Pop Art
2. Velveteen
3. Little Magnets versus The Bubble Of Babble
4. Now Ain’t The Time For Your Tears
5. Racine No.1
6. Racine 2
7. I Came Here To Blow Minds
8. The Price Of The Ticket
9. Queen High Straight
10. THE SHAPE OF HISTORY
The Shape Of History will be released on Friday 25th October and will be available digitally and on Deluxe Vinyl and Deluxe CD.
Preorder here: https://thewendyjames.com/product-category/the-shape-of-history-vinyl-and-cd/
THE FIRST SINGLE IS ‘FREEDOMSVILLE’
Wendy: “I grew up, musically, in the age of the sequencer. There was Transvision Vamp and there was Sigue Sigue Sputnik and we were both drawn into the future by Ridley Scott’s movie Bladerunner. The futuristic, seedy glamour of an overcrowded Chinatown and the high, high skyscrapers, where the masters of the universe observed and policed down below. Also Polanski’s movie ‘Frantic’, Beineix’s movie ‘Diva’, European dark electro and Klaus Nomi’s ‘The Cold Song’. I wrote Freedomsville on guitar like all my songs and in the end I didn’t use sequencers at all, it’s all real playing very rhythmically on repeat for just short of six minutes straight!”
You can buy the Freedomsville VIP Bundle here:
https://thewendyjames.com/product/freedomsville-digital-single-hi-res-artwork/
You can stream here: https://wendyjames.lnk.to/Freedomsville
THE SHAPE OF HISTORY
THE VINYL
Preorder here:
https://thewendyjames.com/product/the-wendy-james-album-10-deluxe-12-vinyl-download-signed/
A wide spine cover, double vinyl LP. One 12” vinyl and one 10” vinyl, to allow for top quality audio for all 13 brand new songs. The 12” plays at 33 1/3 rpm and the 10” plays at 45 rpm. They are packaged together with fully printed sleeves, inner sleeves and a 12 page full size booklet, containing multiple new photographs, all the lyrics, the credits and hand written liner notes by Wendy (you also get an automatic digital download)
ALBUM LENGTH – 56:30
12” SIDE A 33 1/3 RPM
1. Sweet Like Love (3:41)
2. A Happy Life (3:09)
3. Everything Is Magic (5:23)
4. May I Kiss You? (Just Enough To Get Us Into Trouble) (4:13)
5. The Crack And The Boom Of The Creeps And The Goons (3.35)
12” SIDE B 33 1/3 RPM
6. A Big Vicious Rumble (5:53)
7. Do You Dig It? Do You Love It? Is It Groovy? (3.53)
8. Don’t Let Daylight Into Magic (4:35)
9. This Declaration Of Love (4:21)
10” SIDE A 45 RPM
10. Freedomsville (5:47)
11. Step Aside Roadkill (4:36)
10” SIDE B 45 RPM
12. Thank You For The Time We Shared (2:23)
13. The Shape Of History (4:31)
THE CD
Preorder here:
https://thewendyjames.com/product/the-wendy-james-album-10-deluxe-cd-signed/
The CD is packaged like a mini vinyl! There is the outer front cover, a fully printed inner sleeve and a 24 page booklet containing multiple new photographs, all the lyrics, the credits and hand written liner notes by Wendy
ALBUM LENGTH – 56:30
1. Sweet Like Love (3:41)
2. A Happy Life (3:09)
3. Everything Is Magic (5:23)
4. May I Kiss You? (Just Enough To Get Us Into Trouble) (4:13)
5.The Crack And The Boom Of The Creeps And The Goons (3.35)
6. A Big Vicious Rumble (5:53)
7. Do You Dig It? Do You Love It? Is It Groovy? (3.53)
8. Don’t Let Daylight Into Magic (4:35)
9. This Declaration Of Love (4:21)
10. Freedomsville (5:47)
11. Step Aside Roadkill (4:36)
12. Thank You For The Time We Shared (2:23)
13. The Shape Of History (4:31)
Wendy: “My 10th album! My songwriting has always been a wide mix of sounds, which naturally reflect the different music and references I have and love. My sweet spot is mid-late 70’s downtown NYC New Wave Punk: CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. It is from this sound that my taste for sequenced and dark NY and Euro electro and no-wave evolves, original punks ‘The Stooges’, glam rockers the ‘New York Dolls’, English Punk/Pop the ‘Sex Pistols’, French Yé-Yé Girls, American 1950’s Rock and Roll, Rockabilly and 60’s Motown, Girl Groups, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson. Also Hip Hop music, original B-Boys the ‘Beastie Boys’, East Coast versus West Coast, Dr. Dre! The King of New York Lou Reed and ‘The Velvet Underground’, black rhythm and blues from 1930’s depression era America, African American slave era Spirituals and therefore Country and Bluegrass music, Willie Nelson and his fellow Outlaws! Bob Dylan, Jamaican Ska, British Northern Soul and movie soundtracks! Big scores! Big opening numbers! George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Skyline ‘Rhapsody In Blue’. London and The Kinks ‘Waterloo Sunset’ or Paris, Saint Germain and Serge Gainsbourg ‘Initials BB’. Movies, movie directors, literature, authors, artists, activists, all filtered through the prism of my adventures and experiences in life and in music. I work with musicians and engineers who share the same or similar references as mine. They are my fellow musicians and my friends, I trust them implicitly to push until the very last take and to always give everything they possibly have inside them.”
I have spent so much time with this music, I know it note for note and I love it and I am so happy for you to now make it your own.
Love
Wendy xo
CREDITS
Written and Produced and Mixed by Wendy James
Recording Engineer – Tomas Gagliardo assisted by Rosendo Zinny at LeMob Studios, West London, UK, Al Lawson at Mix Studios, West London, UK, Ben Rice at Degraw Sound, Brooklyn NY, USA
Mix Engineer: Jesse Nichols at Atomic Garden West Recording Studio, Oakland, CA. USA
Mastering Engineer: Frederic Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering Inc. Brooklyn, NY, USA
Lead & Backing Vocals – Wendy James
Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Keys, Clarinet – Alex Ward
Additional Lead & Rhythm Guitar – Louis Eliot
Piano, Organs, Keys – Dave ‘The Moose’ Sherman
Bass – Harry Bohay
Drums & Percussion – James Sclavunos
Artwork Design – Wendy James & Noah Eve
Photography and Video – David Leigh Dodd
All songs written and composed by Wendy James. Released by The Wendy James Label. P & C Wendy James 2024. All rights reserved.
