Mark Eitzel ‎– The Ugly American (Vinyl) Blue 180g USA Edition

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.