Flaming Tunes

Flaming Tunes was a collaboration between Mary Currie and Gareth Williams, and was originally released on cassette in 1985. The album was recorded after Gareth left This Heat in the early 1980’s and returned from the first of several trips to India. Except for its initial release there has been no official edition of FT, although a bootleg CD from the late 1990’s included the tape in its entirety. It was misleadingly described as "This Heat’s final demo recordings" which was a great cause of annoyance to Gareth.

He considered the Tunes album a deliberate attempt to create a music with a different mood and texture to the often harsh and uncompromising This Heat recordings, whilst giving full reign to his eclectic tastes and distinctive musical stylings.

You can hear some extracts of the album here.

At long last, we are happy to announce the release of a definitive and authorised digital edition of Flaming Tunes, which is now available on Life and Living Records.

Where possible we have gone back to the original masters, which have been lovingly baked to bring you the the best possible sound quality, hopefully matching Gareth’s exacting standards.

Flaming Tunes On Resonance FM

On the 27 May, at 8pm UK time, Mary Currie and other FT collaborators joined Howard Jacques for a Clear Spot featuring music, chat and some live playing to celebrate the release of the Flaming Tunes CD.....But you missed it.
Nevermind! You can hear it streamed by clicking here.

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