{"title":"Jack Hues","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"primitif","title":"Primitif","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrimitif\u003c\/i\u003e the debut album from Jack Hues, the Canterbury-based singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman for Wang Chung. The 16 track double album features the three tracks released so far \u003ci\u003eWhitstable Beach, Winter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Long Time\u003c\/i\u003e as well as eleven other originals and two cover versions including an eight and half minute electric Miles Davis influenced take on Lana Del Rey’s \u003ci\u003eVideo Games\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite having a career that started in 1977 and which has included composing for Hollywood movies (To Live and Die In LA and The Guardian for William Friedkin, The Walking Dead), John Peel sessions and top ten singles across the globe, \u003ci\u003ePrimitif\u003c\/i\u003e is the first solo album that Jack has released.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dawn Chorus Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50456465244491,"sku":"1089443","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d1b2b713-71b9-48f9-8581-7ce65feb8ee5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727198725"},{"product_id":"electro-acoustic-works-20-20","title":"Electro-Acoustic Works 20:20","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Hues, the singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman for Wang Chung, releases his second solo album \u003ci\u003eElectro-Acoustic Works 20:20 \u003c\/i\u003ewritten and recorded during the national lockdowns. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Hues \"I started to write about what was there in front of me, rather than what was in my head. And what was there in front of me? Deserted streets, quiet gardens, birdsong, no traffic, no aeroplanes, Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, Brexit, Trump, queues of ambulances outside hospitals, stupefying numbers of dead and dying. In response to the BLM protests here and in the US, I began to write a song, and quite early on in the process I sent it to Baby N’Sola (who has previously worked with Paloma Faith). I needed her input, and she sang brilliantly on it. The song she sang on became “We Gotta Work Together”, consciously evoking the spirit of Civil Rights in America in the 1970’s and questioning the divisive presentation in the media of this latest stage in the struggle”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lyrics of the songs on this album cover diverse ideas, but Jack wanted the Music to be a set of variations on one idea; “Side 1 presents that idea in “We Gotta Work Together” and then explores some byways before getting back to the main musical argument. Side 2 became “The Hymn To The Moon Goddess” which is a set of alternating variations on Baby’s ad-libs and the Middle eight guitar riff from “We Gotta Work Together”. As things opened up in the late summer Jack had Josh Magill play drums, Daniel Cano played trumpet, Pete Grogan played tenor sax and Jack’s daughter Violet sang. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the second lockdown happened and Jack hardly noticed, he worked intensely through October-November and during that time the album took shape. Jack’s dear friend Ron Chadwick spent his lockdown working on a triptych of drawings inspired by his own journey with cancer and with 20:20. One of the set features as the album’s front cover and parallels the music and lyrics, although it wasn’t planned that way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf this extraordinary year Jack says “2020 was a difficult and deadly year for many people, but it was also a time of slowing down, regrouping, re-assessing and looking to a future brighter than the past. The spirit of this album is all about that optimism”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dawn Chorus Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50456700518731,"sku":"1128105","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/14ccbe74-7126-41d0-b58f-b6cb84c599bd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727200361"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/jack-hues.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}