Just a quick one to say that we’ve just posted a special offer on our Shop page – you can now buy both Their Hearts Were Full of Spring’s How I Wasted My Youth and Hige Club’s Charlotte Forever CDs together for just £8 (including P&P)!
There are only a few copies of the THWFoS album left now, and they’re exclusively available from this site (we recalled the remaining ones from shops in order to offer them direct at better prices for both you and us). Once they’re gone they’re gone, so don’t think about it for too long!
As for Hige Club, here’s a couple of nice pieces that popped up in the online music press:
Philip Ilson of the London Short Film festival / Branchage Festival is a massive Gainsbourg fan. So, when he heard about the new film about Serge, Gainsbourg, due for release at the end of this month, he got quite excited and wanted to celebrate the release of the film, and the music of the man.
Rather than revisiting Gainsbourg’s best-known work Phil wanted to dig up a “lost classic” – Charlotte For Ever, an album written by Serge for his daughter, Charlotte, and released in 1986 when she was just 12. A product of it’s time, Charlotte Forever hasn’t aged well – its 80s production values make it sound very dated.
But Phil is convinced it’s a songwriting masterclass, and wanted someone to re-record the entire album, stripped of the worst of its 80s excesses, and re-imagined to reveal the beautiful songs hidden within. So he came to us, and Hige Club was born to take on the challenge (there’s more info about them and the project on our Artists page).
We’re pressing up a limited run of just 200 Hige Club CDs, so make sure you get your order in early! We’ll be selling them mail order exclusively though this site, and at the two Hige Club live shows that are lined up:
You can pre-order the CD from our Shop page right now to make sure you’re among the first to get their hands on it – offical release date is 3oth July, but if we get the CDs back from the manufacturers before then we’ll send pre-ordered copies straight out.
And in the meantime, to whet your whistle, you can listen to the whole album right here:
1. Charlotte for ever
2. Ouvertures eclair
3. Oh Daddy Oh
4. Don’t Forget to Forget Me
5. Pour ce que tu n’etais pas
6. Plus doux avec moi
7. Elastique
8. Zero pointe vers l’infini
9. Lemon Incest
(We’d like to be able to post the original album here in it’s entirety too, for comparison, but we might get in trouble for that, so we’ll leave it up to you to seek it out – it’s well worth a bit of detective work!)
Apologies for the temporary glitch with the downloads folks – problem with the hosting site, but as you can see it’s all back to normal again now, so feel free to start downloading again!
