If you’ve followed us on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ this week, you’ve probably already come across this FREE EP. For the rest of you, let’s do a brief recap. Scrimshire is a talented London-based musician and producer who spends most of his time writing soulful, often jazz tinged, music. Late last year, he followed up his début album, ‘Along Came The Devil One Night…’, with the eagerly anticipated (and well received) follow-up ‘The Hollow’ on the ever reliable Wah Wah 45s record label. Strongly supported by such purveyors of good taste as Gilles Peterson, Fun Lovin Criminal Huey Morgan, Phil Levene and Simon Harrison, the album featured Jazz Meet favourites Jessica Lauren and Heidi Vogel, and was a masterclass on how to produce an intricate and thoroughly enjoyable album.This week, as he set his sights on completing his third longplayer, scheduled for release in Summer 2013, he let loose this ace little compilation of ‘forgotten songs’ that ended up, for one reason or another, gathering dust on his MacBook hard drive during the writing and recording process. Included in the seven-track ZIP file (link to download below) are a number of delicious tidbits, not least a shimmering cover of the Sun-Ra classic ‘Where There Is No Sun’ (exclusively produced for a Black Classical Sun-Ra radio special which aired in 2010) and the gorgeous eight-minute long opus that is ‘1000 Lost Letters’ (originally omitted from the man’s previously released material we presume for being, in his own words ,’borderline cheese’ – really?). For more commentary about the origins of the songs by the man himself , go visit his blog.
Listen to a stream of the EP below and for the price of an email address, then grab the download. If you wish you can also hit up that there Scrimshire Facebook page and connect, because history suggest that third album might turn out a bit special and who wants to hear about it second-hand!
Oh and finally if the below does make it to your iTunes music folder, you may also like to know that you can still download his first free EP, which holds, among other things, the beautifully atmospheric ‘Rain in July’.
TRACKLIST
1. Sonolo
2. Afar (Original Ending)
3. Say Something (feat Inga-Lill Aker)
4. All I Do (feat Stac)
5. When There Is No Sun
6. 1000 Lost Letters
7. Repeat
PREVIEW
Words: Rob Coley (@robcoley)