I WANT TO HEAR MUSIC BY BILLY JOE ROYAL FULL

On this first album were the following Joe South compositions.All My Hard Times, Rose Garden, The Greatest Love, Games People Play, Birds Of Feather, and These Are Not My People. It was released in 1968 and called 'Introspect'. It was an age of albums not one off singles and South recorded one of the best first albums ever. Old friend Bill Lowrey from Atlanta radio station WGST, where Joe worked periodically as a DJ, used his contacts to support South and help him get signed to Capital Records. I have to admit I'm prejudiced, I got to meet Joe, both before anyone knew he was.and after. A musical genius ignored by a faux Cleveland landmark known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His name? Joseph Alfred Souter, better known to the public as Joe South, a man I consider a musical genius. In the midst of all this turmoil arose a song writer and performer who epitomized what would be called The New South. My school closed the day of the funeral, which was a big deal since the only time we normally closed in the spring was for Confederate Memorial Day. One must remember that at this time WQXI radio, 'QXI in Dixie.The South Shall Rise Again', was still, periodically, reporting the hangings of blacks out at Stone Mountain!!! I was down there when Martin Luther King was murdered and brought home to be buried in Atlanta. The one that got away stands as a testament to the suffering of creation, and stands on its own as a historical ruin worthy of preservation.I went to college in Atlanta Georgia during the late 60's, a time when the 'New South' was evolving into a political, economic and, more important to me, a musical force. It’s been an eventful decade for Melody Prochet and she has achieved much in spite of some tribulations: a mother and the maker of three critically lauded and much-loved albums: Bon Voyage from 2018 and Emotional Eternal from early this year are both welcome additions to her life-affirming and effervescent oeuvre. Highlights include the groove-laden “Ocean Road”, the effulgent opener “Pêcheuse de Lune” and the mesmeric “Norfolk Hotel”. Unfold is a splurge of righteous creation cut off at an inopportune moment and preserved like the ruins of Pompeii. Seven tracks from that period are available for the first time on vinyl alongside this tenth anniversary edition. “And then I tried to work on it on my own for a couple years, until I realised that I was just really hurting myself doing that.” In a moment of frustration, Melody deleted some of the music from those sessions which is now gone forever, but all is not lost. “The album was fifty percent completed, and then the relationship just didn't make it through the process,” says Prochet. Prochet and Parker started work on what was supposed to be the second album in 2013 in Perth once again. At the time Pitchfork called it: “.enchanting, psychedelic-tinged pop with just the right amount of thematic darkness”, while NME said it was “subtly disorientating” and noted that Prochet had created something that was “just as dark as it is light.”

I WANT TO HEAR MUSIC BY BILLY JOE ROYAL FULL

Melody’s Echo Chamber is a hypnotic and sometimes hypnagogic adventure of the senses, full of summery, shimmery songs that still sound as dreamy and vivid as they did a decade ago. Prochet comments: “To me this song captures the emotional ambivalence of a crossroad, like a child finding a special seashell hidden in the sand but the ocean's creature still lives inside, I guess it's the sound of releasing the beloved.” The beautiful title track, featuring a euphonious electric guitar and Melody’s trademark falsetto tones, is released today alongside a nostalgic feel-good video by Australian videographer Matt Sav (Confidence Man, POND). The reissue will be released alongside Unfold : featuring seven rare and unreleased tracks, it is the first time of what could have been the follow-up to Melody’s Echo Chamber have been available.

Recorded and co-produced with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker in Perth, Australia, and finished in the South of France, the album became a cornerstone of the new wave of psychedelia on its release in 2012.

Domino Records is delighted to announce the tenth anniversary edition of Melody's Echo Chamber, the eponymously-titled debut album from French musician Melody Prochet, due for reissue on September 30th.

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