What is it all about?

Martin Gordon's first three critically-acclaimed solo CDs in one package
Mid-price release (16.99 pounds or 24.50 euros plus p&p)
Strictly limited to 500 copies
Each (numbered) copy is signed by the artist
Available only online via Voiceprint, artist website with Paypal and e-tailers
Each CD comes in original artwork and packaging and fits snugly into a full-colour slipcase
As ever, it’s pop music for grown-ups
Includes cover of tunes by Marc Bolan/T Rex, the Move, the Beatles, Gilbert & Sullivan, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Mel Brooks’ ‘Love Power'
Package includes new slipcase notes and short commentary from the artist

Why should I buy this?

You have more money than sense
You have equal amounts of money and sense, but quite a lot of each
You have more sense than money but can borrow a small sum from your grandmother
You can't remember where your original copies are, or you have donated them to Bob Geldof in order to reduce African debt and Make History Poverty
You simply cannot wait until Part V of the Trilogy is released
You want to
You are worried that Martin Gordon will declare a fatwah on you if you don't

PRESS RELEASE

Following Martin Gordon’s acclaimed return to the pop world, his three solo CDs are here collected under one roof. The box set is a strictly limited edition of 500, each copy numbered and signed by the artist. Each CD comes complete with original packaging and artwork, and fits snugly into a full colour slip-case featuring an overview from the artist. This mid-price release includes the cover versions for which he has also become known, with songs by Marc Bolan/T Rex, the Move, the Beatles, Gilbert & Sullivan as well as Mel Brooks’ timeless ‘Love Power’ from the Producers.

The Mammal Trilogy rounds up the work of the pop composer described as one of the greatest British songwriters of recent years. As you will know, if you’ve got your wits about you, because it’s written just above. His epicurean skills, honed to perfection in the musical kitchens of the great and good (as well as the dull and awful), have attracted gourmet music fans the world over, and even from as far away as France.

Driven to resume his solo career after working with other musicians for donkey’s years, he’s released one album every twelve months so far (and this year will also see a Best Of (How Am I Doing So Far?), to be followed by Part IV of the Trilogy. (IV means four, not as in ‘IV got a lovely bunch of coconuts’. He wanted to be a judge but didn’t have the Latin). His is a creation of pop music for grown-ups. Recalling that pop was once NOT a nasty word but (whisper it quietly) an intelligent means of expression, he is bemused by the wholesale invasion of the territory of pop by cabaret dance groups and gangs of burglars. Other things which bemuse him are the ongoing, all-pervading idiocy of much of daily life — to paraphrase Frank Zappa, which he sometimes does, ‘Rather than a carbon-based life form, humanity must be stupidity-based, there’s much more of it about’.

Featured on this compendium of aural delights are songs about Nigerian email scams, technology (he has ‘missed the universal serial buss’, he rather unbelievably claims at one point), relationships with alien lovelies, Heaven run by the Germans, age as a cricketing metaphor, marital problems, xenophobia, instant fame and of course the title track, in which he wonders why despite his plethora of gold chains and mobile phones, nobody takes him seriously. Of course the protagonists are not necessarily the performers, it scarcely needs pointing out. Or perhaps it does, in which case you should investigate his book, The Illustrated and Annotated Companion Volume to God’s on His Lunchbreak, (see here) which depicts the characters appearing in those tunes.

Supported, but not literally, by a small cast of superbly-equipped musicians, bass player Gordon enlists Pelle Almgren on vocals and Chris Townson on drums. Townson was formerly a member of original teen outrage band John’s Children and once stood in for an unavailable Keith Moon on a Who tour. Almgren is a Swedish rock star who tuned his back on fame and fortune in the mid-90s to become an estate agent. Guitar duties are shared between Andy Reimer (German, sausages) and Enrico Antico (Italy, omerta, stilettos).

Names which occur in Gordon’s ‘officially recommended’ list might include Gilbert and Sullivan, System Of A Down, Noel Coward, the Move, Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren, all manifestations of pop wearing its finest clothing.

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