ISABELLA, JASPER AND SIMON FISHER TURNER Savage Songs of Brutality and Food. By the extreme Angels of Parody LIMITED CD Digipack 2020

Savage Songs of Brutality and Food. By the extreme Angels of Parody

CD Digipack
Limited Edition

Soleilmoon Recordings

Simon Fisher Turner is an English musician, songwriter, composer, producer, and actor. He has produced dozens of movie scores, released on labels such as Mute Records, Creation Records, Cherry Red, Optical Sound... and Soleilmoon. This album is something quite unique and special. It's a soundtrack of Fisher Turner's 'fatherhood' - Simon Fisher Turner in his own words:

This is the blurb… I think it’s a press release, too, about this album I’ve made with my kids’ voices and sounds and these home recordings we’ve made over the last 13 years. They’re now 15 and 17 and who knows what they think. I know they’re not too interested in it this now, but they’ve seen the artwork and pictures and obviously they know the tracks, but I don’t think they actually realise this is coming out and that strangers can buy the LP in a Record Shop or online with actual money.

So to this album. It’s the first thirteen years or so of our children’s lives made into cute and cruel songs of experimentation and, yes, chaos again. So, from the first heartbeat (not included here) to just under two years ago, I randomly and sometimes secretly recorded them singing or talking, often encouraged of course by me. That’s what parents do. I recorded for 13 years. It’s rather wonderful to have sound documents as opposed to pictures. Luckily I have both and I’m still rediscovering forgotten sounds even now. This is a music/sound diary (perhaps) of the frankly mad, cute, annoying, moving, innocent, loud, loving, embarrassing, noises of their lives up to now, as recorded and messed up by me, as in messed-up-and-I-don’t-care, but do I care. I try to edit with clarity where needed, but otherwise the vocals and ideas are pretty raw and unaltered for the sweeter market of pop. This is just STUFF. Wild and Alive. Rebels without a pause.

Isabella and Jasper I think are now probably incredibly pissed off with me, but you know, that’s tough. Now at 17 and 15 their childhoods are over. The illusions shattered. There is no pretence. They can watch the news, Snapchat at speed, and lurk on the net who knows where. Innocence has gone, battered out of them by schools and the more serious and dull adults that surround them. They were the funniest and most amusing two smaller people imaginable, but now, they’re Teenagers…….Aaahhhhh. They’ve opinions, they’re brighter than me, better looking, funnier, nicer clothes, better humour and taste, and they’ve more friends than me too. The job is done.

I’m sadly responsible for the musical settings they happen to find themselves in, although, quite often all the music or at least some of it is made up from their noises too. We like a noise here and there and we love to dance on a Friday night. One of the beauties of this sort of music is that there are no rules. We could all do with this sort of freedom, in not just music, but film, cooking, and storytelling. A child’s imagination is the finest open canvas ever. No rules rule. Oh God, I sound like a dotting dull dad. C’est la vie.

Stay well and keep calm and risk everything with passion and love.

--SIMON FISHER TURNER LONDON, 25 JUNE, 2020