Newman, Colin - Not To |-

Colin Newman’s 3 classic early 80’s solo albums A-Z, provisionally entitled the singing fish & Not To originally released on Beggars Banquet / 4AD re-released on his own new imprint Sentient Sonics. VINYL - unavailable for many years—remastered original albums on single vinyls. CD - the 3 remastered original albums each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks, b-sides & demos - quite a lot of which have never been released - released as 3 double digipacks.These albums were recorded and released between 1980 & 1982 in a “post 154” rush of activity. While all the albums bear the name Colin Newman they differ in that A-Z & Not To were recorded as “band” albums with Colin being joined by Wire’s Robert Grey, Mike Thorne (who also produced, as he had the first 3 Wire albums) & Desmond Simmons on A-Z and Robert, Desmond & Simon Gillham on Not To. provisionally entitled the singing fish was more an “actual” solo album in that everything was played by himself. Colin produced the latter 2 albums with Steve Parker engineering.Not To (disc 1) 1. Lorries 2. Don’t Bring Reminders 3. You, Me and Happy 4. We Meet Under Tables 5. Safe 6. Truculent Yet 7. 5/10 8. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep 9. Not To 10. Indians! 11. Remove for Improvement 12. Blue Jay Way