Barry Adamson - Scala!!! (Original Music By Barry Adamson) - VINYL LP

Barry Adamson taught himself to play the bass overnight and joined Magazine, Manchester's most influential band of the late 70's. After a three-year stint with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, he released his first solo album, Moss Side Story. It raised Adamson's name as a composer of diverse complexity. Having since released nine studio albums, including the 1992 Mercury Music Prize-nominated Soul Murder, he has continued to tour globally with his talents being as much in-demand by a new generation. He celebrated 40 years as an artist in 2018 with the compilation, Memento Mori, and in 2021 Omnibus Press published his memoir, Up Above The City, Down Beneath The Stars. At the start of 2024, the acclaimed documentary, Scala!!!, for which Adamson composed the original soundtrack as well as featured in the film, received it's cinematic . His new album, Cut To Black, swaggeringly embraces Adamson's trademark genre-hopping compositions, covering Pop, Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop and Gospel. Album Tracks 1. The Last Words of Sam Cooke 2. Demon Lover 3. Cut to Black 4. Manhattan Satin 5. These Would Be Blues 6. Please Don't Call Me 7. Amen White Jesus 8. One Last Midnight 9. Was It a Dream? 10. Waiting for the End of Time

The EP was written and recorded at the time Adamson was writing his memoir 'Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars'. The record ended up becoming an intrinsic part of the book writing process with Barry explaining, InchThe book is the past, the record is the past present. I needed to write it to get through the book, to stay present.Inch Sitting amongst Barry's diverse catalog, Steal Away EP presents a refreshing vibrancy and western-like feel that further demonstrates Adamson's multifaceted ability in songwriting. Album Tracks 1. Let's Steal Away 2. Broken Moments 3. The Climber 4. Sundown Country

Barry InchEpochInch Topping returns with the long-awaited soundtrack to BIRDCAGE. The widely celebrated game is the debut of POLYGON BIRD Games.BIRDCAGE is a fast-paced, vertical scrolling shoot 'em up that blends the explosive action of 90s arcade classics, with modern gameplay and storytelling. What is the value of a bullet, when you wield a sword?While players have been praising BIRDCAGE for transferring retro aesthetics into modern times, the incomparable soundtrack is always pointed out for the same reasons. Entering Barry Topping, who gained recognition for the famous Paradise Killer game soundtrack and lately continued to spread those funky city pop vibes with his very own project The Needs. But for BIRDCAGE it was time to stray from his Inchtrademark soundInch and explore a different sonic space he had always been passionate for as well. Album Tracks 1. Birdcage 2. Conception 3. Radon 4. Natality - Stage 1 5. Raptor [Fledgling] 6. Fission - Stage 2 7. Cradle - Stage 3 8. Ascent - Stage 4 9. Raptor [Mother] 10. Ceyx - Stage 5 11. Ingress 12. Arboreality 1.0 // Grace Bid - Stage 6 13. Arboreality 2.0 // Aged Crib 14. Arboreality 8 // Boxing Day 15. Dryad -Dormir Ou Se Réveiller 16. Halcyon 17. Dreamstate 18. Nest