++++ Breakdown Newsletter 8.0
+++  16 March 2000
++   Breakdown: http://fringedigital.com/brook
+    Discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/breakdown



+++++ In this issue:
++++  Site Updates
+++   Paul Tingen album
++    Iarla O Lionaird live
+     Current List Membership



|| Site Updates ||

Some big changes in the Breakdown Discography: nearly all the pages now
feature a section at the bottom called "Related" with links to relevant
albums, singles, and bootlegs. Plus, I've rescanned many album covers, so
generally things look a whole lot nicer. And, for those geeky web-types like
me: the pages now all use CSS for more consistent typography and layout. So
check it out:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc

Real World Records just released a new compilation called Voices of the Real
World, featuring tracks from S'Amore E Mama and The Seven Steps to Mercy,
both produced by Brook:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/voices.shtml

The Last Pogo, a 1978 compilation featuring Steven Davey's band The
Everglades with Michael Brook on guitar, is now reissued:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/pogo.shtml

Russell Mills' second Undark album was recently released in the US, as a
jewel-cased edition (the original was in a digipack):

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/pearl.shtml

Albino Alligator has been out of print in the US for some time now, but is
now available as an import edition:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/albino.shtml

I thought Jon Hassell's Sulla Strada and Wolfgang Press's Going South were
out of print, but apparently they aren't! Here's the info:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/sulla.shtml
  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/going.shtml

Just found out that Brook worked on Roger Eno's 1985 album "Voices",
credited for remastering:

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/voices_eno.shtml

Paul Tingen's "May the Road Rise to Meet You" (see below):

  http://fringedigital.com/brook/disc/may.shtml



|| Paul Tingen album ||

Paul Tingen, the writer of two articles collected in Breakdown's Babbling
Brook page, recently contacted me about his album "May The Road Rise To Meet
You", featuring contributions from Michael Brook:

 http://www.tingen.co.uk/music/theroad.htm

Paul plays steel-string acoustic guitar, violin, electronic treatments,
nature noises and Vietnamese singing. The track "Watching The Breath" is
arranged and electronically treated by Michael Brook. You can download MP3s
of a few songs from the album at the above link. In the coming days, Paul
also told me he might also post another track treated by Brook, not included
on the album.

Here are Paul's two articles about Brook:

  A bio from the Sylvian Fripp tour brochure:
  http://fringedigital.com/brook/babbling/sylvian.shtml

  "Infinite Possibilities" from Sound on Sound, 1995:
  http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/1995_articles/jul95/michaelbrook.html



|| Iarla O Lionaird live ||

Virgin Record's "Eden" website promotes Iarla O Lionaird's new album and
tour:

  http://eden.vmg.co.uk/news

Brook does not contribute to this album, but as for the tour: "Iarla also
tours his own "multi-media" solo show, backed up by projected
computer-generated imagery. "It's basically a set of 17 songs, about half of
them accompanied by backing tracks from Michael Brook, like ambient poems."

Real World's tour dates page doesn't have any info yet, but may sometime:

  http://www.realworld.co.uk/rwr/tours



|| Current List Membership ||

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