Cleaners From Venus Songs For A Fallow Land LP 2013 REISSUE REMASTER NEW SEALED

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Cleaners From Venus

Songs For A Fallow Land 

Captured Tracks CT-177  LP 33RPM 2013 (USA)

Martin Newell (born 4 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter, poet, columnist, and author. He grew up in an army family in various parts of England and the Far East. His music is guitar pop with jangly, upbeat, guitar-centric arrangements. He is also considered one of the pioneers of cassette culture.

In the late seventies, Newell led a four-piece rock combo called The Stray Trolleys. They recorded material in 1979 and 1980, but it was not released until 1982 after the band had broken up.

In the meantime, Newell issued his first solo single ("Young Jobless" b/w "Sylvie in Toytown") on vinyl in 1980. By the end of 1980, he was collaborating with Lawrence "Lol" Elliot as The Cleaners from Venus, a band that mostly released their work on cassettes outside the traditional music distribution channels.

By 1983, The Cleaners from Venus had evolved into a band with a floating line-up that featured Newell as its only constant. The band still primarily issued material on cassette, got signed to the West German independent label Modell Records for one vinyl album ("Under Wartime Conditions") and ultimately the German leg of RCA Records which released two albums ("Going To England", "Town And Country").

Giles Smith joined Newell as the only other official member of Cleaners From Venus between 1986 and 1988, and in 1987, Newell returned to performing live under The Cleaners of Venus banner. As well, while releasing Cleaners From Venus material on cassette on a regular basis, through the 1980s Newell also occasionally released cassette singles and albums under his own name. On these solo releases he was usually the only musician.

Tracklist
Mountainside
A1 Sun Comes To The Wood 
A2 Julie Profumo 
A3 Soul Monday 
A4 Gamma Ray Blue 
A5 Heroin Clones 
Riverside
B1 Winter Palace 2 
B2 Golden Lane 
B3 Stars Are Cold 
B4 Late Night
Written-By – Syd Barrett
B5 Beyond (...And Beyond) 

Mastered At – Bonati Mastering

Design, Layout – Ryan McCardle
Liner Notes – Martin Newell
Written-By, Performer, Producer – Cleaners From Venus

Originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes in 1985.

LP in a picture sleeve is NEW and SEALED

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