Published
Mon, Jun 29, 2015, 09:05
- Two releases containing unheard tunes from Mason's archive are on the way.
Rush Hour Music is releasing a James Mason retrospective EP this week.
The EP forms a companion piece to Recollection Echo, a compilation that features seven previously unreleased recordings from Mason, a disco artist whose work mostly remained unnoticed during his creative prime. The compilation came out in Japan on CD via the SHOUT! Productions in late April 2015. Recollection Echo, which comes with liner notes written by Mason, arrives 38 years on from his only previous album, 1977's Rhythm Of Life. Rush Hour's EP features two tracks from the compilation: "The Dance Of Life" and "Up Jump."
"When I listen to this music I experience a recollection of the passionate execution of the production process, a young man engaged in an act of self-actualization and the dissolution of my relationships with these musicians who were once my friends," says Mason. "But, I also experience a profound reaffirmation of my belief in myself as an artist. With the benefit of the hindsight of my current sensibilities, even in the midst of its various defects, I hear in this music what I always believed I had in me as an artist. Some of this shit's really good!"
Listen to snippets of The Dance Of Life / Up Jump below.
Tracklist
01. The Dance Of Life
02. Up Jump
The Dance Of Life / Up Jump is coming this week on Rush Hour Music.