Various Artists - London Is The Place For Me 8 (Various Artists)

Various Artists - London Is The Place For Me 8 (Various Artists)The latest volumes in this highly acclaimed series presenting the music of the Windrush generation: the post war, London recordings of West Indians and West Africans, in the first wave of modern migration to Britain. Volume 8: Lord Kitchener In England, 1948 1962 is devoted to the great calypsonian Lord Kitchener. Double CD comes with a forty page booklet, including numerous stunning photographs, and brilliant new writing by Kitch's biographer,

while “I Saw Your Mommy” and “Suicidal Failure” get a new lease on their already manic life

and multi-effects

and "Blue" is also weaved into each of the album's soundscapes

Each EP features a different band member on lead vocals - Maia

the Welcome Wagon's second full-length

the musicians had two full records' worth of material - and none of it fit the glove of a conventional trio recording

pressed on HEAVY 180-gram vinyl and lovingly ensconced in a beauteous Stoughton tip-on jacket

after these are gone

as in the ecstatic refrain of "New Partner" or the lithe polyrhythms of "Beast for Thee

It features 63 tracks including cuts from New Order

For more than two decades

often difficult to control elements and introducing them harmoniously