Name: Condition Blue
Brand: Sky Records
SKU: 185835
Availability: OutOfStock

Performer Notes

Personnel: The Jazz Butcher [Pat Fish] (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Sumishta Brahm (vocals); Peter Astor (guitar, harmonica, vocals); Peter Crouch, Alex Lee, Richard Formby, Laurence O'Keefe (guitar); Alex Green (alto & tenor saxophones); Owen Jones (organ, percussion, vocals); Tim Burrell (piano); Joe Allen (bass); Paul Mulreany (drums); Alastair Indge, Jarmes Rogers, Howard Turner (background vocals).
Engineers: Tim Burrell, Howard Turner, Andy Eliot, The Jazz Butcher.
Recorded at Raven, Norfolk and Submarine Sound, Northampton, England from April-May, 1991.
All songs written by the Jazz Butcher.
Personnel: The Jazz Butcher (guitar, 12-string guitar, keyboards, percussion); Laurence O'Keefe (vocals, guitar); Owen Jones (vocals, organ, percussion); Alastair Indge, Howard Turner, Sumishta Brahm, Jimmy Rogers (vocals); Peter Crouch, Joseph Allen, Richard Formby, Alex Lee (guitar); Alex Green (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Tim Burrell (piano); Paul Mulreany (drums); Colin Harris (sampler).
Recording information: Raven, Norfolk, England (04/1991-05/1991); Submarine Sound, Northampton (04/1991-05/1991).
Arranger: Alex Green.
Pat Fish, better known as British thinking-person's popster The Jazz Butcher, is on a personal mission to bring literacy back to pop music. Over an uneasy nine-year, seven-album alliance with a sales-driven music industry, Fish has never taken the easy way out with a lyric. Condition Blue was inspired by a nervous breakdown Fish experienced toward the end of 1990. The album's barefaced and literal songs express Fish's observations as he worked to claw his way back to sanity. "She's a Yo-Yo" and "Shirley MacLaine" erupt in frenzied bursts of driving guitar and feedback. Over it all, The Jazz Butcher intones deep, resonant melodies, seemingly in calm control but always bordering the precipice that gapes just below the surface. ~ Roch Parisien

Professional Reviews

Option (5/29/92, p.113) - "...a sweet confection of smart pop songs...a poppy kind of music that's slightly nostalgic and still hip..."

Album: Condition Blue
#	Song Title	Time
1)	She's a Yo-Yo
2)	Honey
3)	Shirley MacLaine
4)	Racheland
5)	Girls Say Yes
6)	Our Friends the Filth
7)	Harlan
8)	Still and All
9)	Monkeyface

Album: Condition Blue
#	Song Title	Time
1)	She's a Yo-Yo
2)	Honey
3)	Shirley MacLaine
4)	Racheland
5)	Girls Say Yes
6)	Our Friends the Filth
7)	Harlan
8)	Still and All
9)	Monkeyface