The Bend – We Disappear (White Vinyl LP + 10″ Black Vinyl EP) Limited Edition
Armchair Records NZ (2021)

Product Description

Brand New ~ Strictly Limited Edition LP On 180 Gram White Vinyl, Plus 10″ On Black Vinyl! Pressed At Pallas In Germany. Deluxe Gatefold Cover Includes 36-Page Booklet With Sleeve-Notes, Photographs & Illustrated Lyrics ~ All Lovingly Designed By Fane Flaws. INCLUDES FREE CD ~ WHILE STOCKS LAST! A New Zealand Dream Team Of Players Present An Amazing Project Started By Fane, Poet Sam Hunt, Bruno Lawrence & Friends Back In 1987! 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018796618/we-disappear-an-album-over-30-years-in-the-making-final

After thirty ‘odd’ years, The BEND (Fane Flaws, Tony Backhouse and Peter Dasent ~ all ex-Crocodiles) is delighted to announce that We Disappear, our album of songs written from selected poems by legendary NZ poet Sam Hunt, has finally manifested in the physical world. This strange project began in 1987 with iconic NZ drummer Bruno Lawrence on the kit (his last known sessions), a very young Jonathan Zwartz, fresh from the Sydney Conservatorium, on double bass and guest vocalist the late, great Rick Bryant joining Fane, Tony and Peter in the studio, resulting in six songs in the can. After that the wheels fell off and financial and personal issues meant the project was first shelved, then lost. Twenty-five years later, the tapes were unearthed by Peter during a spring clean. The BEND had a listen and decided the project should be completed. Another six songs were written and the original band reassembled (minus Bruno who had by then physically disappeared), with Sydney drummer Hamish Stuart becoming the new Bruno and part of the family. By this time Jonathan had become a standout musician/composer in the world of Australian jazz and his masterful playing is a highlight of the record. The album also includes wonderful contributions by notable Australian and NZ artists including James Greening, Virna Sanzone, Lisa Spence, Jenny Morris, Margot Pierard, Anton Wuts, Nick Bollinger, Ross Burge, Craig Walters and Andrew Delahunty.

Side 1:
Black Cattle At Dawn Waiura
Wavesong
Forbidden Fruit
A Song About Her
My White Ship

Side 2:
Everytime It Rains Like This
Letter Home
We Could Just Disappear
Walking The Morning City
Meeting An Old Love

Side 3:
Beware The Man

Side 4:
School Policy On Stickmen

BONUS CD:
Beware The Man
School Policy On Stickmen
Black Cattle At Dawn Waiura
Wavesong
Forbidden Fruit
A Song About Her
My White Ship
Everytime It Rains Like This
Letter Home
We Could Just Disappear
Walking The Morning City
Meeting An Old Love

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