Description
Limited 180g LP pressing (500). Mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road. Seventeen years after it’s initial release, Mark Eitzel’s ‘The Ugly American’, a collection of solo and American Music Club reinterpretations performed with traditional Greek musicians is unveiled for the first time on vinyl. The ten tracks cover a varied period of Mark Eitzel’s solo output, his band American Music Club’s albums, and a sole composition from Greek musician Manolis Famellos (‘Love’s Humming’). All songs were recorded with the addition of traditional Greek instruments (bouzouki, tzouras, Cretan lyra & zournas) under the guidance of Famellos and his band. At a time when AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB albums where hard to obtain, re-interpretations of ‘Western Sky’, ‘Last Harbour’ and ‘Jenny’ were treated with effervescence and stunning new arrangements. ‘Anything’ (originally on ‘The Invisible Man’), originally a stark and bleak electronica track, is now heightened to a majestic instrumentation opus. The album retains the heartfelt tales of sadness that you would expect from Eitzel in a folk and pastoral context. Today this beautiful recording is revered for it’s haunting arrangements and Eitzel’s deep warm and rich vocal delivery. A revisionist detour that casts Eitzel’s impressive song-writing skills in renewed and sparkling adaptations.
Label: Tongue Master Records – TMASTLP002
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, BLUE VINYL USA LImited to 500 EDITION
Country: USA
Released: March 2021
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Acoustic
Tracklist
A1 Western Sky 4:58
A2 Here They Roll Down 3:37
A3 Jenny 3:19
A4 Nightwatchman 4:52
A5 Take Courage 3:23
B1 Anything 4:01
B2 What Good Is Love 3:13
B3 Will You Find Me? 4:06
B4 Last Harbor 5:41
B5 Love’s Humming
Adapted By – Marietta Famellos, Mark Eitzel, Manolis Famellos*Lyrics By – Manolis Famellos*
4:23
Companies, etc.
Copyright (c) – Tongue Master Records
Copyright (c) – Soul Sister
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Tongue Master Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Soul Sister
Published By – Eitzelsuperhits
Mastered At – Abbey Road Studios
Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals – Mark Eitzel
Acoustic Guitar, Mixed By, Producer, Mandolin [Some], Vocals – Manolis Famellos
Bass – Dimitris Baslam
Clarinet, Other [Pipes], Whistle, Zurna [Zournas] – Manolis Achalinotopoulos
Design – Matt Dornan
Drums – Panos Tolios
Electric Guitar – Spyros Chatzikonstantinou
Engineer, Mixed By – Andreas Vaitoudis
Executive-Producer – Theodore Vlassopulos
Lyre [Cretan Lyra] – Manos Pirovolakis (tracks: A5, B2)
Mandolin, Tzouras, Bouzouki – Manolis Karantinis
Mastered By [Mastered For Vinyl By] – Alex Wharton
Mastered By [Originally Mastered For CD By] – Giannis Ioannidis
Violin, Viola – Kyriakos Gouventas
Vocals – Elissavet Spanou
Written-By – Mark Eitzel (tracks: A1 to B4)
Notes
Limited edition of 500 copies on 180g BLUE vinyl with printed inner bag.
Labels state © 2003 Soul Sister Ⓟ 2020 Tongue Master Records
Sleeve states © 2020 Tongue Master Records Ⓟ 2003 Soul Sister, A Division of Hitch Hyke Music Ltd.
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