19 on the UK Singles Chart) also becoming a moderately successful single in Europe. 2 on the UK Albums Chart, with the track, "Is It Like Today?" (No. Goodbye Jumbo was voted "album of the year" by Q magazine and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "best alternative music performance" in the US.Īfter the 1991 EP Thank You World, Wallinger recruited guitarist David Catlin-Birch and ex-Icicle Works drummer Chris Sharrock as fully-fledged members for 1993's album Bang!. Wallinger collaborated with fellow songwriter Guy Chambers on some of the tracks. Goodbye Jumbo, World Party's second album, contained the minor UK hit singles " Way Down Now" and "Put the Message in the Box". She would go on to appear as a guest on the second LP as well. O'Connor, then an unknown, had appeared as a guest on World Party's first album. 27 in the US, in the process becoming the act's only major international hit.īetween World Party's first and second albums, Wallinger aided Sinéad O'Connor in recording her 1988 debut, The Lion and the Cobra. "Ship of Fools", however, did much better outside the UK – it reached No. Recorded at Wallinger's home in 1986, his debut album Private Revolution yielded two minor hits in the UK, "Private Revolution" and " Ship of Fools". After their third album in 1985, This Is the Sea, Wallinger departed to form World Party.
The booklet features a new essay featuring an interview with Pat Martin and fully restores the original Hipgnosis album artwork.After a stint as musical director of a West End performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Karl Wallinger joined a funk band called "The Out", before joining Mike Scott's Waterboys in 1984 to record the album A Pagan Place. This edition features six bonus tracks ‘Volcano’ (an out-take from the “Blue Pine Trees” sessions), ‘The Ballad of John and Julie’ (recorded for a BBC Radio session), ‘Bog Trotter’, ‘Ooh Mother’ (both sides of a 1974 single) along with ‘I’ll Believe in You (The Hymn)’ and ‘Take it Easy’ (issued as a single in 1975). Featuring a line-up of Ken Baker (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Pete Perryer (drums, vocals), Pat Martin (bass, vocals) and Kevin Smith (lead guitar, mandolin), “Blue Pine Trees” was released on the Charisma label in 1974, the album was Unicorn’s second LP and was produced by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who also featured on Pedal Steel Guitar and guitar on several tracks. Unicorn 'Blue Pine Trees' (Remastered & Expanded Edition)Įsoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of “Blue Pine Trees”, the 1974 album by Unicorn.
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