Krankschaft - The Flame Red Superstar

[gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK]

This is a really great album!  Highly recommended! Excellent versions of 
some of Bob's greatest songs, with great packaging too! Everyone here 
should support such a great project.

I only ever recommend genuinely good stuff!! Really... check it out for 
yourself!








At 01:13 03/11/2009 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I don't usually post plugs to lists, but I thought I'd update you on
>the Krankschaft album of Robert Calvert songs.
>
>We've released it on CD as a Limited (250 copies) Edition with A2
>colour poster and glossy photocard, it's also available as an MP3
>download, find both versions at www.krankschaft.com.
>
>You can hear samples of every track on the MP3 page, but enough of my
>ramblings let me leave you with a review posted to our website:
>
>
>"When I was younger Robert Calvert often provided my soundtrack. I was
>born in industrial Sheffield and from my bedroom window I really could
>see the canal. I could see the cranes, but it was Bob who made me see
>them as an X-ray of the Taj Mahal. When I was 17 I'd sneak out at
>night, take my Dad's Morris Marina and drive over the Pennines, flying
>in fantasies and glorious solitude. When I heard '..Luminous Green
>Glow..' I realized I wasn't a nut, other people got it.
>
>And then he died. It was like I'd boarded a plane that never took off.
>
>Many people felt that loss, not least Fred and Steve of Krankschaft,
>and 'The Flame Red Superstar' goes a long way towards helping us all
>feel a little better. All the classics are here but not as you know
>them. I can't pick a favourite track. From the heaviest version of
>'Picket Line' you'll ever hear to a fragile, poignant 'Greenfly and
>the Rose', it's clear that Steve and Fred love these songs and know
>exactly how to treat them.
>
>This is not a compilation, it's an album. It does what an album should
>do. It makes you dance, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry. It's an
>integrated piece of audible art, right down to the silence between the
>tracks. The sounds are beautifully complemented by Doctor Foxon's
>excellent package and poster designs.
>
>Bob's songs were cruelly orphaned at an early age and like many
>orphans some of them have been mistreated. One thinks of the poor
>'Ejection' dragged out and thrashed before the baying mob. Steve and
>Fred however have nurtured those songs over the years and now we see
>them, mature adults, taking their place in the world they were born to
>inherit.
>-Miniwood. "
>
>
>Sorry for the blatant advert!
>
>-Steve