Iain Whitmore - War Cries
Iain Whitmore's unreleased 1982 solo album ‘War Cries’, re-mastered for CD from the original stereo tapes,
is now available exclusively on this website.
is now available exclusively on this website.
In 1982, Iain Whitmore was pretty disillusioned with the music business.
Having left SE&L in '76, he'd formed the excellent Kites and just missed out on a new CBS record deal for internal company reasons. He'd toured and made an album with the short-lived Violinski, released a couple of singles (now collectors' items) and recorded an album - 'The Angel Changes Shape' - that disappeared unreleased in another production company's bankruptcy.
Thus it was, he took up the offer to record a new album with a minimal budget for the new venture of that company's MD - 'Hope Springs Eternal' as the song goes - and 'War Cries' was painstakingly made over 26 days that summer on Tony Poole's TEAC 3440 4-track.
Alas, the minimal budget turned out to be zero, and that company too disappeared, so this release offers the first opportunity to hear Iain's wonderful songs.
Having left SE&L in '76, he'd formed the excellent Kites and just missed out on a new CBS record deal for internal company reasons. He'd toured and made an album with the short-lived Violinski, released a couple of singles (now collectors' items) and recorded an album - 'The Angel Changes Shape' - that disappeared unreleased in another production company's bankruptcy.
Thus it was, he took up the offer to record a new album with a minimal budget for the new venture of that company's MD - 'Hope Springs Eternal' as the song goes - and 'War Cries' was painstakingly made over 26 days that summer on Tony Poole's TEAC 3440 4-track.
Alas, the minimal budget turned out to be zero, and that company too disappeared, so this release offers the first opportunity to hear Iain's wonderful songs.