Wendy James will release her new album ‘The Shape Of History’ on 25th October. Written, produced and mixed by James and recorded in West London and New York City, ‘The Shape Of History’ is her tenth album and will be available digitally, on deluxe vinyl and via deluxe CD. To accompany today’s announcement, James has unveiled a video to ‘Freedomsville’, the first single to be taken from ‘The Shape Of History’.
LISTEN TO ‘FREEDOMSVILLE’ HERE
WATCH ‘FREEDOMSVILLE’ LYRIC VIDEO HERE
“I grew up, musically, in the age of the sequencer,” reflects Wendy. “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, the overcrowded Chinatown and the high, high skyscrapers, where the masters of the universe observed and policed down below. Mixed in with that: 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. My mixing engineer Jesse Nichols couldn’t believe how unchanged the recording was from the guide and yet how much sound and arrangement had been created. In the end, I didn’t use sequencers at all, it’s all real humans playing very rhythmically on repeat for six minutes straight.”
“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. ‘The Shape Of History’ was recorded on Scrubs Lane, West London with Alex Ward, Harry Bohay and James Sclavunos. I then went off to NYC and Brooklyn to record the pianos and organs with Dave ‘The Moose’ Sherman. Overdubbing continued with Al Lawson at the engineering helm in his Shepherd’s Bush studio and then I went back to Berkeley, CA to mix with Jesse Nichols before mastering with Fred Kevorkian in Brooklyn NY. 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”.
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