On May 25th Ian Burden releases his debut album Hey Hey Ho Hum on the Rutland Artspace Limited label,
Hey Hey Ho Hum was created, performed and produced by Ian and features 10 songs including the first single Let The Devil Drown.
Watch now the video for Let The Devil Drown, a tuneful sumptuous singalong, laced with dark humour through-out:
Ian Burden put in 7 highly prolific years during the 80’s as a member of the Human League, in the imperial phase. As keyboard player and composer, he co-wrote ‘Do Or Die’, ‘The Sound Of The Crowd’ and ‘Love Action’ on the ‘Dare’ album, as well as ‘Mirror Man’ amongst others.
After limited involvement with music over the last 30 years Ian has now recently fallen back into it, in an unplanned way – “A collection of vintage synthesizers were shamefully gathering dust in an attic, and deserved better fate. Some of them had done service with The Human League and other projects, and might be of use to somebody. Their condition needed investigation to see if they were in working order. Being modular units they required connection to a keyboard, which then led to routing through computer software, which in turn gave rise to riffs and rhythms. Chords and singing easily fell alongside, so I started recording” The result of this endeavour is the dazzling Hey Hey Ho Hum.
When explaining the songs on Hey Hey Ho Hum, Ian explains “The first song, ’In Those Dreams’, is the only one to reference the past: specifically the era of being an undergraduate with guarded optimism. All the others are about where I am in the present. ‘Stand Down’ is about people breaching my peace and quiet. ‘Big Big World’ looks at a country boy’s bemusement regarding urban anxieties. The desire to get away from tedium is explored in ‘Another Day’. While ‘Hey Ho’ looks at the observations of tensions between others. ‘Hanging Around’ is about enjoying indolence. ‘Where To Start?’ admits that I’m as rudderless as civilisation per se. Hey Hey Ho Hum closes with ‘Stay In Tune’ and ‘Thy Kingdom’ both of which are simple exortations towards unity, optimism and honesty.
This original and audacious album is the perfect summation of Ian Burden as a composer, as a musician and as a producer.
To order Hey Hey Ho Hum go to: https://www.pledgemusic.
Hey Hey Ho Hum track listing
01 In Those Dreams.
02 Let The Devil Drown
03 Stand Down
04 Hanging Around.
05 Where To Start
06 Big Big World
07 Another World
08 Hey Ho
09 Stay InTune
10 Thy Kingdom
To stream Let The Devil Drown: https://open.spotify.