Planet For Sale is Released..

‘PLANET FOR $ALE’ 2007 CD Album IOL 0237 Plus re-mixes by Steve Hillage of System 7, Banco De Gaia, Keith Halden, Bliss and Guy Evans of recently reformed Van Der Graaf Generator.

A new direction for Nigel Mazlyn Jones. His first album to feature only heavier music and remixes. Fans of his acoustic playing who have seen him play in a band format will not be too shocked. BBC 2 TV Scotland broadcast a 15 min show based around the lyric and music. It got record viewing figures. BBC England refused to broadcast it … mmm … Here are two pieces of the lyrics which explain a lot.

“Planet for sale in need of renovation, who’ll give us a dollar for a dead old globe, ......... Why are the rich so bloody greedy, why are governments so corrupt right to the core ?” copyright 2006 N M Jones.

“Festival audiences love the dance versions and creating the album has been a very long journey. I suppose fans who only like the acoustic side of my work will find ‘Planet for $ale’ strange but I know they like the last acoustic album, ‘Behind the Stone’. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost my acoustic roots…just carrying on the creative curve. Part of the proceeds from this album will go to a charity I am a trustee of called Environmental Assistance.” NMJ

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Downloadable PRESS PHOTO'S Here

SHIP TO SHORE - 1976 LP Vinyl IOL 6661 deleted. Re-released 2002 with 7 extra tracks on Kissing Spell Records CD KSCD 942 Vinyl rare and collectable. Predates the Chris De Burgh album of the same name.

Nigel Mazlyn Jones first album re-released with 7 extra tracks recorded 1970 to 1975. A musically eclectic and original title track plus other 12 string favourites ‘A Singularly Fine Day’ and ‘The Man and the Deer’. Features Johnny Coppin, Rob Lloyd, Dik Cadbury, Mick Candler, Martin Mitchell. The sleeve notes contain all the lyrics, background information and photos of the players.

“It took time searching out tracks from the seventies era recorded on old tapes in different formats and re-mastering the new material for the CD. I discovered some great sections of instrumentals from the early seventies, hints of which found their way into the final title track. Two whole songs also resurfaced. Finding all the various photos was an emotive experience and a serious trip down memory lane. It became clear to me from this journey back in time, that much that was important to me back then is even more important to me these days.

The title track ‘Ship to Shore’ played on a Harmony Sovereign 12 is a parallel allegory about personal and global desperation. The ‘Dry Land’ instrumental ending developed as an antidote to letting the ship sink. It was a musical device emotionally necessary for me and later I realised also for the listener, because we can all sink a long way down but there is something deep in me that feels a responsibility to leave the listener lifted. I am alive because others lifted me when I was sinking.

‘Follow every Sunset’ and ‘Take me Home’ are dreams of journeys and places. In later years I find myself writing more instrumentally about these dreams and journeys. The second album in 1979, ‘Sentinel and the Fools of the Finest Degree’ goes further and deeper into the themes that I started on ‘Ship to Shore’.” NMJ