GARETH WILLIAMS & MARY CURRIE - Flaming Tunes LP Japan Fantascope

Fantascope

Having single handedly produced and perfomed the full eight tracks

It's a beautifully arranged record full of earthen tones and dark hues that reflect the long shadows cast on American music

The myriad of tonal interplays

The album is a document

GARETH WILLIAMS & MARY CURRIE - Flaming Tunes LP Japan FantascopeFlaming Tunes was recorded by Gareth Williams (ex of This Heat) and his childhood friend Mary Currie and released on cassette in 1985. If you spend any time at all on the Flaming Tunes website (in particular, it has some scans of letters Williams wrote to Currie in the early 80's), or read a series of interviews Tony Herrington made for The Wire magazine in 2009 with Currie and Andrew Jacques of These Records, you get a real feel for the personal