Artist: PETE BROWN AND PHIL RYAN
Album: PERILS OF WISDOM (DIGI)

Release date: 2013
Media type: CD

This is the fourth record by Pete Brown and Phil Ryan, who have worked together on and off since Phil joined Pete’s band Piblokto in 1970. This time they have used their working band, Psoulchedelia ,for this latest venture.

It is an organic mixture of original songs, with elements of soul, blues and jazz, with featured virtuoso instrumentalists Annie Whitehead, Lee Goodall and Alan Weekes. Not by any means a retro record, ‘Perils’ is soulful, lyrical, humorous and angrily political by turns.

Standout tracks include the mournful ‘Eva’s Blues’ (predicting an Amy Winehouse style tragedy, but written three years before that event) and the hilarious and rather rude ‘Motormother’ (is a car a male or female organ? That’s the question for the listener!).

With many records coming out this year that Pete Brown has either produced or written, plus several reissues, this will be supported by media attention.

TRACKLIST:

01. No Time Left For Good Times
02. With A Girl Like You I Can Clean Up , The City
03. Eva's Blues
04. For You
05. How About It?
06. Motormother
07. Don't Want Nothing Old In My Life
08. The Bait
09. Nobody Knows
10. Living In The Sleaz System
11. Go Down Fighting