All right, this took me a ridiculously long time to update.
The album is out and is available from Rough Trade http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=309317
Junior Electronics is an album by Joe Watson. Joe plays keyboards in Stereolab and also engineered their last album 'Chemical Chords' and their previous six singles, compiled on the album 'Fab Four Suture'. Joe also plays with John Cunningham and Imitation Electric Piano. Joe recently finished work as producer for the forthcoming album by French three piece Cocosuma. Other recent engineering and mixing duties include High Llamas, Monade, Imitation Electric Piano and Mary Hampton.
The junior electronics album also features the sublime talents of:
Grant Allerdyce (Big Hairy Band, Mountain Fireworks Company): drums;
Mary Hampton (Mary Hampton, Imitation Electric Piano): vocals;
Simon Johns (Stereolab, Imitation Electric Piano): bass;
Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab, Monade): vocals.
Thanks very much for accepting my request. There's some amazing sounds here. I just got hold of a Little Phatty, so I expect I'll be doing some nonsense with that i the not-too distant future! If I can get over my current Steve Reich obsession, that is....
this is harder than i thought. as i wrote that the picture in the ad above changed from hot young blond to old wrinkly blonde. wow. harder than i could've ever imagined. i keep waiting for her to turn back and she doesn't. wow. harder by the second. wow. back to work...
