Sticky Music Albums

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LDL - After Virtue - BUY HERE
GUMCD50
Artist - LDL
Title - After Virtue
A new album of songs recorded at the band's Edinburgh studio and mixed/mastered by Calum Malcolm, the producer behind the wonderful albums by The Blue Nile.

Freedom Bound - Songs from GB 04 - GO HERE
Freedom Bound - Songs from GB 04 - GO HERE
Released: August 2005
Producer: Steve Butler
Engineer: Steve Butler
Recorded at Ocean Wave Studio, Edinburgh
Drums & Percussion - Eddie John
Bass - Steve Lawson

Lies Damned Lies - Last Place on the Map BUY HERE
GUMCD42
Artist - Lies Damned Lies
Title - Last Place on the Map
"Surfacing every few years, the Lies offer sparse, fluid, folky songs, usually with a spiritual, meditative dimension. But, rather than producing an Enya-like snoozefest, the ageless results betray the fundamental influence of John Martyn, sharing his lack of concern for engaging with musical fashions." -The Scotsman

Lies Damned Lies - As I Went Down - BUY HERE
GUMCD46
Artist - Lies Damned Lies
Title - As I Went Down
New for 2003 - extended instrumental explorations of beauty and yearning, inspired by biblical references to prayer. Intended for group or individual meditation.
Five long tracks.

Lies Damned Lies - Lamentations - BUY HERE
GUMCD32
Artist - Lies Damned Lies
Title - Lamentations
"A strange, mysterious, ceremonious feel... burrowing deep into the mind with their understated, unhurried music that is inspired" - Rock and Reel
"LDL are about creating space and their sound is created to give shape to the silence and substance to the emptiness" - The Irish Times

Lies Damned Lies - The Human Dress - BUY HERE
GUMCD22
Artist - Lies Damned Lies
Title - The Human Dress
A Lies Damned Lies acoustic gig, recorded in Glasgow in the summer of 1992. Space, harmonies and even a touch of William Blake. 11 songs of commitment in adversity.
"It takes a rare grace to fashion the melancholia of failed relationships into an object of burnished, elegiac beauty...songs that slow-burn their sulphurous tears onto your consciousness the way Talk Talk and The Blue Nile once did." - Melody Maker

Lies Damned Lies - Flying Kites - BUY HERE
GUMCD16
Artist - Lies Damned Lies
Title - Flying Kites
"At its sparsest, Flying Kites is hardly even an idea, more a vague mood, such is the capacious ambience on display" - VOX
"Flying Kites is a unique and flawlessly poignant piece....the lush textured instrumentation and the matter of fact intimacy of the vocals sweep you up and draw you in - there are no barriers between singer and listener; they breathe the same deep sighs together." M8 MAGAZINE

Steve Butler - 14.iv.05 - BUY HERE
GUMCD49
Steve Butler, recorded solo in Edinburgh, in April 2005. Over an hour of intimate acoustic versions of songs from the solo albums as well as one or two from the LDL catalogue.

Steve Butler - Clear - BUY HERE
GUMCD47
Artist - Steve Butler
Title - Clear
A new album of original and covered songs, continuing in the singer-songwriter tradition of musing melodically on the stuff of life. The line up of musical guests is much as for the 'Love Come Down' album - with the addition of Suzanne Adam on harmony vocal and violin. The album includes three cover versions: Jackson Browne's 'Alive in the World', Tom Waits' 'Take it with me' and Karla Bonoff's 'Lose Again'. Unfussy 'band in a room' arrangements, pared back to the life-essentials of engaging lyrics and memorable melodies.

Steve Butler - Love Come Down - BUY HERE
GUMCD37
Artist - Steve Butler
Title - Love Come Down
Solo album of love and longing from Sticky/LDL frontman.
"Very enjoyable too...lurking in that artistic territory which was pegged out by the likes of Jackson Browne, Bruces Cockburn and Hornsby and other acceptable faces of singer songwriterdom." The Scotsman
"Butler is a class act and his first solo album in twenty years has quality written all over it’s nine songs...The voice is deep and rich and vulnerable. The poetry is inventive and deeply spiritual....The piano playing is beautiful....an album full of one liners that will have you pondering for some time." Steve Stockman BBC Ulster

Martin Wroe - Seven - BUY HERE
GUMCD45
Artist - Martin Wroe / Harry Napier / Justin Butcher
Title - Seven, a meditation on the seven last words from the cross
Evocative contemporary readings for use in group or individual reflection. Original music for cello by composer Harry Napier and readings by actor Justin Butcher. CD includes text and music only versions for custom use.
What were the last words of Jesus? What did he say to his friends and enemies in the last hours of his life? What did it feel like to be abandoned ? What do those words tell us about the meaning of his life ... and his death? When those travel through centuries what do we hear ?
Jesus hung on the cross for six hours before he died. In that time, he spoke to his friends, to the criminal crucified next to him, and to God. Seven of these moving, short sayings of Jesus are recorded in the Bible.
They are the last words he spoke before he died.
Each piece is offered twice. The second time there are no vocals so that in your own setting, service, meeting with friends, whatever - you could use the music track and choose your own voices to narrate. You might even amend the reflections, write your own, set the words of Jesus in the context of your own community.

Martin Wroe - Life, Death, God - BUY HERE
GUMCD43
Artist - Martin Wroe
Title - Life, Death, God
Ten meditations originally written for books, events, festivals, over the last decade. Each piece accompanied by original music written by Lies Damned Lies. For use in group worship, in study groups, or individual reflection.

Iain Archer - Flood The Tanks- BUY HERE
Iain's fine new album featuring ten original tracks.

Juliet Turner - Let's Hear It For Pizza - BUY HERE
GUMCD34
Artist - Juliet Turner
Title - Let's Hear It For Pizza
Juliet's magnificent debut album recorded in two days in 1996. The first demonstration of her songwriting gift, this collection captures an outpouring of raw talent and universal insight.
"Nothing about her sounds out of date because she writes with excrutiating honesty....a sensitvity to lyrical diction and a poetic turn of phrase....well tuned irony and humorous self-deprecation put the icing on the cake." Hot Press

dfg - 'You are the problem....' BUY HERE
GUMCD44
Artist - dfg
Title - You are the problem, dfg is the solution
Debut album from the self-styled 'corporation'. Music, poetry, faith and surrealism lurk somewhere between laughter and tears.

Iain Archer - Playing Dead - BUY HERE
GUMCD26
Artist - Iain Archer
Title - Playing Dead
Iain's magnificent 1995 debut. Ten quality songs that stand the test of time. The single 'Wishing' was record of the week on Simon Mayo's Radio One Breakfast Show. Unforgettable melodies and acoustic playing, woven together with lush band arrangements. A Sticky 'must-have'.

Iain Archer - Crazy Bird - BUY HERE
GUMCD33
Artist - Iain Archer
Title - Crazy Bird
A collection of ten endearing songs recorded in 1996 with the compelling intimacy of purely acoustic arrangements.
"A Bob Dylan for the 90's - yes please!" Guitarist Magazine
"Gently up music for the gently downhearted" Q

David Heavenor - Winter's Children - BUY HERE
GUMCD39
Artist - David Heavenor
Title - Winter's Children
A heartstopping, dreamy album by this renowned Edinburgh songwriter.
"The cool delivery remains, somewhere between Al Stewart and Nick Drake ... the unexpected guitar runs. The lyrics you can't quite pin down, but which echo around your brain, shifting meaning, ornate yet direct, complex and with an overwhelming sense of Edinburgh in winter ..." The Scotsman
'A songwriter of style and substance ...' Iain Anderson, BBC Radio Scotland
"A beautiful album in every respect..." Stewart Cruickshank, Senior Music Producer BBC Radio Scotland

Late Late Service - LLS 1/2, 3, 4, 5 - BUY HERE
GUMCD38 / 25 / 27 / 35
Five volumes of work from Glasgow pioneers of music for alternative worship. The Late Late Service is a monthly worship service based in Glasgow. A small group of friends began organising alternative worship services in 1990. The worship weaves classical liturgical texts with dance music, video and visuals and tries to address the social and political contexts of the community who attend.
"One of the standard-bearers of the alternative worship movement..their songs are modern but stridently biblically based, and strong on social justice.they have provided a ready-made soundtrack for numerous experiments in worship" - Church Times
"Like a blood transfusion for me - buy it and be inspired" - Catholic Renewal

Billy Penn's Brother - Ruckus in real time - BUY
GUMCD18
Artist - Billy Penn's Brother
Title - Ruckus in Real Time
Richard Nicholson's third solo album. Never afraid to look on life's darker side, Nicholson's poetry swims headlong into the unconscious dredging up images of breakdown and loss. "Perhaps our favourite moment as producers" Dot Reid.
"Just the right amount of sleaze for these unsettling yet strangely compelling songs" Rock 'n' Reel

Calvin's Dream - Fanatical - BUY HERE
GUMCD23
Artist - Calvin's Dream
Title - Fanatical
Nice and nasty, noisy and hummable... the sound of Scotland coming to terms with its past, from John Calvin to Lou reed.
"An urban folk band with a lyrical eye beyond the usual teenage kicks subject matter" The List
"A preoccupation with religion and power, but don't let that put you off. There's no inaccessible theorising, just uncluttered melodic rock and carefully crafted songs." M8 Magazine

Dan Donovan - Trashbone Thang - BUY HERE
GUMCD24
Artist - Dan Donovan
Title - Trashbone Thang
Solo album from the man known for some years as the focus of the shifting collective Tribe of Dan. Fragile, broken, and intimate honesty hung dramatically in a gallery of Waits-like garage environments.

Various Artists - Heaven and Earth - BUY HERE
GUMCD36
Artists - various
Title - Heaven and Earth / 20 years of Sticky Music
The best moments from the first 20 years.
"From LDL to Juliet Turner, Talking Drums to Iain Archer, the music created by Sticky label-mates leapt th gap between Heaven and Earth. From underground albums which led to major label success or cult recordings which transformed the songs of the saints, Sticky has been the last word in independence and artistic quality." Martin Wroe

Guest Artists - Andy Thornton - BUY HERE
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