Happy Birthday Adrian Borland

In honor of Adrian's Birthday today I offer you all one of my favorites out of his solo releases, 5:00AM. You can also grab some of his other work that has been posted on the blog here in the past just click on the 'Adrian Borland' or 'The Sound' Tags to bring you to the posts. So start listening and make this day a remembrance of one of the most underated musicians of our time.

Adrian Borland - 5:00 AM (1997) Earth Records


Stray Bullets
Dangerous Stars
Vampiric
Baby Moon
City Speed
Kissing In The Dark
I'm Your Freedom
The Spinning Room
Redemption's Knees
Between Buildings
Over The Under
Before The Day Begins

Adrian Borland - Beautiful Ammunition (1994)

REQUEST:

His first solo Album without The Citizens.

Adrian Borland - Beautiful Ammunition

Re-United States of Love
Open Door
Rocket
Stranger In The Soul
Break My Fall
Station Of The Cross
Simple Little Love
White Room
Past Full Of Shadows
Ordinary Angel
Lonely Late-Nighter
Someone Will Love You Today
Forgiveness
Rootless
In Passing
Shoreline

Adrian Borland & The Citizens - Brittle Heaven Demos and Rarities

ADRIAN BORLAND & THE CITIZENS
Brittle Heaven Demos and Rarities

Faithful
Flight 23
Rising in Love
European Streets
Nowhere to Fall
All The Words
Oh Sister
Universe of You
New Century Smile
Healing Kiss
Rouge Beauty
No Ethereal
Chrystaline
Light The Sky
Found Lost Found

Adrian Borland - Harmony & Destruction 2002

REQUEST:
Harmony & Destruction was the project he was working on before his untimely death,the recordings were completed by co-producer Wally Brill and the session musicians and released after.
It is still in print and available to buy at Sun Red Records , who also has reissued Sad Lovers & Giants, And Also The Trees, House Of Love, Lowlife, The Opposition, Comsat Angels and many others.
You can also grab the demos to Harmony & Destruction here

* Track 2 has a nasty skip in it... Sorry !!!

Adrian Borland - The SHH! Recordings ' Harmony & Destruction Demos '

A million thanks to Malcolm for sharing this

There seems to be some inconsistencies with the album art, The cover say SSH Recordings, and the back artwork says SHH Recordings. I wanted to point this out to avoid any unnecessary comments. Yes.. whoever made this bootleg forgot to check their spelling errors..
but who gives a damn right!

The SHH! Recordings
Harmony & Destruction Demos

Solar
Destiny Stops Screaming
Scrapyard
Ghost of Your Heart
Get Me A Witness
In The Field
Angel Sulk
Land Meets Ocean
Are These The Days
Europe is a Darkroom
Forever From Here
When A Star Dies
Love Will Save The Day
Angel Sulk pt.2
Song Damn Song
Heart Goes Down Like The Sun
Summer Wheel

Adrian Borland and The Sound 2 Meter Sessies

Thanks to Gino for sharing this one
This is an 'unplugged' bootleg made by a fan, containing some of the best versions of 'Silent Air', 'The Other side Of The World ' and ' When Can I be Me ' I've ever heard.

Adrian Borland - The Lovefield Demos

Lots of requests for this one..

Here are the demos from the Lovefield sessions.
There is 1 additional track not available on this compilation, you an get that here .

The Waterboys - December 12 " (1983)

Okay let me first start off by saying that The Waterboys really are a required taste and might not appeal to some of our readers, but for one thing I do know they were an amazing band and worth discovering. In only 5 years in the 80's they released four albums back-to-back that would put most mainstream bands to shame. The Waterboy's had this signature sound, a kind of 'New Wave wall of sound, where they believed MORE is definitely better` this style stretches the band's songs to great lengths with perfectly matched impassionate vocals and earnest lyrics, you can really see why they were Adrian Borlands favorite band.

The Waterboys - December 12"

+Ensign Records+

A1December
B1 The Three Day Man
B2 Red Army Blues

Will appeal to those who enjoy Felt and Into Paradise

The Witch Trials (1981)

In reference to my post I did about Adrian Borland I wanted to do this as a seperate post.
In 1980 Borland worked on two projects, Second layer which he did with future Sound bandmate Graham Bailey and then The Witch Trials. The Witch Trials was a one off thing he did with Jello Biafra ,East Bay Ray, Christian Lunch and Morgan Fisher which they managed to recorded in one 4 hour session at Morgan Fishers house in London.

Spoken word ..Improvisation ..Noise ..Chaos ..in other words very cool stuff!

The Witch Trials (1995 CD reissue)

+released on Alternative Tenticles+

Humanoids From the Deep
The Tazer
Trapped in The Playground
Meat Beat

In Memoriam - Adrian Borland

In the recent anniversary (April 26th) of the passing of one of my favorite and most respected musicians, Adrian Borland I decided to pull together a short span of his 20+ year career and the different bands he formed and participated in. Besides being a musician he was also a noted producer, who aided the likes of Felt, Dole, and Into Paradise .

* I highly recommend downloading these 3 bands *

Here are a few of my favorite albums throughout his career.

The Outsiders - Vital Years (1976-79)

This is where it all started.. a angry young Borland. Besides playing gigs at the infamous Roxy, they were the first noted UK punk band to release their own DIY album ' Calling All Youth' while everyone else was putting out 7".This is a collection of all of The Outsiders material, Vital years was released in 2000, but I'am uncertain of it's availability.

Second Layer - State of Emergency (1981)
Borland and other bandmate Graham Bailey's side projects while starting up The Sound. Dark, creepy and experimental and completely left field of what they went to do with The Sound but nevertheless very cool stuff. You can get the reissue of 'World Of Rubber' here.







The Sound - Korova Demos (80-81)
Since it is nearly impossible for me to pick a favorite Sound album I decided to put up the Korova tape demos from the earlier part of their career, If you haven't heard all of The Sound albums you are seriously missing out ! All the sound stuff at one time was all reissued on RENASCENT but because of liscensing issues they are no longer available to buy.








Honolulu Mountain Daffodils -
Guitars of the Oceanic Overgrowth(1987)

a lesser known project Borland worked on under the
alias of Joachim Pimento.










Adrian Borland & The Citizens - Alexandria (1989)
Not to long after the end of The Sound, Borland started a solo career with the Citizens as his back up band. A complete different direction musically, but throughout his solo career you can see how much he grew as a songwriter and musician, get all of the albums if you can.









Adrian Borland - Cinematic (1995)
Borland solo minus the Citizens, stylewise nothing like The Sound,but still a very strong and beautiful album.








White Rose Transmission (1995 - present)

Borland's collaboration with Carlos Van Putten (The Convent and Dead Guitars).






* I only decided to put up a few of my favorite albums,quite a few blogs have every album already on their blog but If anyone would like anything else from Second Layer, The Sound, and Adrian Borland's solo albums just comment below and leave a request. *

White Rose Transmission 1995(Germany, UK)

White Rose Transmission started in 1995 as a collaboration between Carlo van putten (vocalist of The Convent and Dead Guitars) and Adrian Borland (The Sound). The name is inspired from two different things, the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, two members of the german anti-nazi organisation "Die Weiße Rose" (The White Rose). They dropped anti-nazi propaganda flyers at several universities in Germany during the second world war. Both were executed by the nazi's. That's how the first part of the name came about. Secondly It was Borland's idea to add the word 'Transmission'.

"We keep transmitting; hope you are receiving".

Many other artist participated in the following albums including Mark Burgess (ex Chameleons,The Sun and The Moon, Bird) Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls) Marty Wilson Piper ( The Church, All About Eve) Yves Altana (guitarist for Bird and The Sons Of God). The first self-titled release is filled with back to back tracks where each one is stronger then the one that procedes it. The shining star of the album is 'Silver Age', where the vocals and orchestration omit a yearning and a suffering beauty all accompanied by incredible lyrics .

White Rose Transmission (1995) +Indigo+

Unkissable
Die Dunkle
In Your Hands
Sister Sweetness
Vapour
Street of Flowers
Allein
Thorn of a Rose
The Silver age
Indian Summer
The Hell Of It
Kugel der einsamkeit