Saving, Drum, by Thomas Leer

Saving, Drum

by Thomas Leer

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12" Vinyl
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3 Track 12" vinyl housed in specially redesigned Reverse Card Board outer and black paper inner.

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1.	Saving Grace 04:16	buy track
2.	Saving Grace (Bullion Redux) 06:01	buy track
3.	Tight As A Drum 04:37	buy track
4.	Tight As A Drum (Bullion Redux) 04:23	buy track

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Emotional Rescue announces the second EP of music from one of the label’s favourites as part of a non-defined series where two of their (un)classic songs are remastered, reappraised and reinterpreted with new versions by a contemporary artist for reinterpretation today.

Thomas Leer is a respected and revered musician in both experimental and electronic circles. Having moved from Scotland to London in the late 70s, he moved away from playing in punk based bands, to debut his self-financed ‘Private Planes’ 7” in 1978, before releasing the cult-album ‘The Bridge’, with Robert Rental, the following year.

Signing to Cherry Red, he released the heralded ‘4 Movements’ in 1981 and followed with ‘All About You’ in 1982, and it is from these 2 EPs that this release is sourced. The release starts with Saving Grace from the latter, a long famous “Cosmic classic”; it’s mid-tempo, spacey, lifting repetition is the perfect soundtrack for those Baldelli trips straight to the stars.

This is backed with Tight As A Drum, a quintessential Leer production, where Teutonic drums is overlaid with sequencers and synth tones to elevate the song to some kind of disorientating outer-dimensional dub, while his lucid, spoken word vocals instill degradation and reinvention.

Asking Bullion to offer his own take on these two songs was the perfect pairing. A revered artist in his own time, the warmth and depth of his versions takes the originals to his own inner world; sampling, rewiring, reprogramming, resigning and replaying. An EP for the floor, the head and the heart.

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released February 1, 2019

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