Natural Yogurt Band - Away with Melancholy (Now-Again)

• September 21, 2009

IN THE STORE
Natural Yogurt Band - Away With Melancholy
LP: Double 10”, gatefold, silver foil tip-on sleeve
CD: Gatefold, silver foil tip-on sleeve
Limited 1000 pc.

Track List:
I. Chapter One
II. Chit Chat
III. Better Days To Come
IV. Thoughts
V. Voodoo
VI. Pipe Dreams
VII. Latin Illusion
VIII. Invisible Ink *
IX. The Woods
X. Weak Without Wine *
XI. A Broken Rose
XII. Space Echo
XIII. Egg & Spoon *
XIV. Soft Cheese
XV. Lament For Piano
* Previously Unreleased.

Authentic, psychedelic library vibes from the golden era meticulously recreated in the new millennium. This is the expanded version of the Natural Yogurt Band’s now out-or-print debut album, with three never before released bonus tracks.

It didn’t take much: Gerald “Jazzman” Short signed this mysterious UK-based duo based on their brooding, beat-heavy, difficult-to-categorize demo, conveyed his signings love of Galt MacDermot, David Axelrod and Ennio Morricone’s 60s and 70s masterpieces to Egon, and the duo hatched a plan for an expanded North American issue of what had already been hailed as a fine release in keeping with the best “library music” issues of the same era.

It’s taken well over a year, in which time the NYB’s album has gone out of print as Jazzman’s limited run was never repressed. This version comes expanded with three bonus tracks never before issued and comes packaged as a gatefold, thick cardboard “pasted on” silver foil 10” double LP and CD. This North American version is also limited to 1,000 pieces in each format – once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Photos of the CD & Double 10” package below: