I CAME HERE TO BLOW MINDS Special Edition Reissue Splatter Pattern Colour 12″ Vinyl

Description

This is Wendy’s ‘break-out’ LP. The first recording to be in Wendy’s name as opposed to RACINE. This time Wendy traveled from NYC to Paris to record the album with selected French indie musicians in the ground floor recording studio in the atelier of clothing designer APC. Jean Touitou, the owner of APC was/is a huge music fanatic and had built a little studio in his design complex so he could play his guitars and host his favorite musicians and film makers, including Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson and Jarvis Cocker. It was in here that Wendy recorded ICHTBM with the exception of the track ‘Speedball’, for some reason that track never clicked with the French musicians and it remained unrecorded at the end of Wendy’s recording budget! However, Wendy had just been invited to Sydney, Australia to do some ‘celebrity DJ-ing’ and during that time she met a bunch of Sydney indie musicians and a producer Scott Horscroft in the Surrey Hills district. So it was in BJB studios in Surrey Hills that a) Speedball was recorded and b) where the album was co-mixed, between Wendy and Scott. It features 13 original compositions.The songs are typically ranging from Wendy’s love of New York New Wave Rock n Roll through to more Country Ballad and Phil Spector ‘Wall Of Sound’ production and once again shows the depth and range of Wendy’s song writing . The cover photo by James Traill was captured on a sidewalk early in the morning, in Sydney, outside a photography studio where Wendy was scheduled for a fashion shoot. Reissued now as a Special Edition Color Splatter 12” vinyl. Not only that… the artwork: jacket, inner-sleeve and labels have been re-envisioned and updated, clearly this is a one-off run of vinyls!

TRACK LISTING

SIDE ONE

1. The Moon Dead in the River (4.57)
2. Where Have You Been, So Long? (4.27)
3. Don’t Shoot – I Ain’t Dillinger (4.41)
4. Municipal Blues (3.26)
5. New Wave Flowered Up Main Street Acid Baby (2.44)
6. Speedball (3.59)

Side One – Total running time: 23 minutes

SIDE TWO 

7. No Dice (3.22)
8. You Tell Me (3.46)
9. King Hoodlum (3.26)
10. One Evening, in a Small Café (3.45)
11. These Beggar Memories (4.21)
12. You’re a Fucking Mess, But You Sure Is Pretty (2.19)
13. I Came Here to Blow Minds (3.21)

Side Two – Total running time: 23 minutes

Total Running Time: 46 Minutes

MUSICIANS
Wendy James – Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keys
Jeremy Orsel – Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar
Hadrien Grange – Drums

Brock Fitzgerald – Guitar
Wade Keighran – Bass, Percussion
Sam Pearton – Drums

All songs written and produced by Wendy James
All songs mixed by Wendy James & Scott Horscroft
Photography by James Traill
Art Direction by Wendy James & China Heights

*Mastered for Vinyl

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+ Packaging and Shipping

Ⓟ & © Wendy James 2011. All rights reserved. Unauthorized Duplication is a violation of all applicable laws.