Name: Tenement Symphony (National Album Day 2023)
Brand: Marc Almond

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PSFELP108D

Colour

Blue

Colour details

Translucent Blue

Discogs ID

[r28578778]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Plastichead

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5013929851818

Total Cap

Blue LP

Artist

Marc Almond

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Restored classics, rare finds, and sought-after releases. Whether you're a vinyl enthusiast or a tape collector, we have something for everyone.

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Marc Almond is a UK singer, songwriter and performer. He was born on 9 July 1957 in Southport, Lancashire. In recognition of his contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service, he was awarded an OBE (The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours list in 2018.

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National Album Day is the annual event celebrating the art of the album, and this year we're taking a look back across the best of the 90s.

National Album Day 2023

Featuring the actual Trevor Horn produced Tenement Symphony sequence restored as was his original intention with the dramatic statement of the orchestral ‘Prelude’ as a precursor to the intoxicating energy of lead hit single, ‘Jacky’, as written by Jacques Brel.

Tenement Symphony was an attempt, at the time, to make the definitive Marc Almond album as masterminded by Warner Music UK’s then chairman Rob Dickins. The effect of the album was meant to be like looking through the windows of different rooms in a tenement building and hearing a bouquet of narrative songs about disparate characters residing therein. It saw the first post-breakup rekindling of the songwriting partnership with Soft Cell’s Dave Ball (with The Grid’s Richard Norris) on the three techno-torch tracks ‘Meet Me In My Dream’, ‘I’ve Never Seen Your Face’ and UK hit ‘My Hand Over My Heart’. It was an album that also featured three co- writes with Marc’s long-standing collaborator and arranger Billy McGee (Marc and The Mambas, The Willing Sinners) on the emotionally charged tracks ‘Vaudeville and Burlesque’, ‘Beautiful Brutal Thing’ and ‘Champagne’.

LP - In this re-sequencing of the album, to enable optimal mastering, ‘Champagne’ now opens the predominantly ‘bonus tracks’ second disc, the other songs were B-sides to the album’s three hit singles, ‘Jacky’ (UK#17), My Hand Over My Heart’ (UK#33) and ‘The Days Of Pearly Spencer’ (UK#4).&nbsp;Many of these B-sides feature such stellar songwriting that they could have easily created a double album back in the day to showcase all the contemporaneous involved talents of Trevor Horn, The Grid, John Coxon and Billy McGee. This special double, coloured vinyl edition for fans provides a glimpse into how such a release might actually have panned out.

2CD -&nbsp;First ever expanded edition of Marc Almond’s landmark seventh studio album. Originally released in 1991 Tenement Symphony, a collaboration with Trevor Horn yielded no less than three Top 40 UK hits.&nbsp;With a second bonus CD of remixes, extended versions, lesser heard 7” variants of the album’s singles including Marc’s joyous cover version of Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’, a previously unheard John Coxon 12” mix of ‘My Hand Over My Heart’ and the 7” edit of the shelved fourth single from the album, ‘What Is Love?’.&nbsp;Plus a 32-page booklet full of lyrics, photos and listening notes.

6CD/DVD - Same as 2CD set plus exclusive to this boxed edition are four unique CDs adding to a total 76 audio tracks, 34 of them never previously having been commercially released. Plus a DVD that showcases all three promo videos and Marc Almond’s five contemporaneous BBC TV appearances.

Tenement Symphony (National Album Day 2023)

Music GB

Discover Tenement Symphony by Marc Almond. A masterpiece from the trusted brand Rough Trade. Vinyl records with exclusive tracks and restored sequences. Available in a special double, colored vinyl edition.