Peddlers, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Suite London
July 24, 2006
Eclipse: A brand new old fashioned record label headed by Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs launches…
After the success of their compilation The Trip last year, Wiggs and Stanley decided to take matters into their own hands, and Universal Music Catalogue happily gave them an imprint that lay dormant in the vaults – ECLIPSE – for the much-loved pop duo to raid the far corners of the company’s archives. And that's a big old archive – at their fingertips they have the listings for Philips, Decca, A&M, Island, Polydor, Mercury, ABC, Dunhill, MCA and many more. They will work alongside the catalogue department to produce individual works of stunning musical beauty.
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Peddlers, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Suite London |
July 24, 2006 |
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Dusty Springfield - Complete A And B Sides 1963-1970 |
July 24, 2006 |
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Chris Montez - Call Me - The A&M Years |
July 24, 2006 |
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Various Artists - The Girls Are At It Again UK Beat Girls 1964-1969 |
July 24, 2006 (Cancelled) |
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Johnny Dankworth - Let's Slip Away - Film And TV 1960-1973 |
July 6, 2009 |
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The Impressions - Complete A And B Sides 1961-1968 | July 6, 2009 |
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Gary Walker And The Rain - Album No 1 |
July 6, 2009 |
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ECLIPSE will not be wilfully obscurant. It will make yesterday relevant to today. Some of the label's biggest names will be featured, and their music will be reconvened in a clean fashion. ECLIPSE will take pleasure in shining a light into the clammy cellars of Universal's West Hampstead tape library to see what kind of lost soul, folk, beat and baroque rock and pop it can find, Sometimes the releases feature a hit act who has barely made it onto CD and other times an album has been feted by crate diggers and specialist magazines alike but missed a digital transfer.
Beyond these initial four releases are untold riches. Expect regular batches of four at a time. The artwork will always be beautiful, the notes neat and informative, from real music lovers and the best pop writers around, for real music lovers everywhere.
Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs are, of course, two thirds of national treasures and observers of the most intimate urban truths, Saint Etienne. A prolific pairing if ever there was one: as well as having released their 7th album ‘Tales From Turnpike House’ in 2005, Bob and Pete have otherwise been particularly busy making a name for themselves in the worlds of journalism (Bob) and film (both) in recent years. Enjoy the fruits of Bob and Pete’s most recent labours with the launch of this wonderful record label, the perfect outlet for their by-all-accounts encyclopaedic knowledge of all things great and good, musically speaking.