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Artist:	PEARLFISHERS, THE
Title:	A Sunflower At Christmas
Label:	MARINA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MA 063CD

Originally released by Marina Records in 2004. Reviving a good old pop tradition, this Glasgow pop band produced an entire mini-album of exclusive Christmas songs. This record -- the band's fifth for Marina -- features seven original compositions by main Pearlfisher David Scott and a lovely treatment of the Christmas classic "Away In A Manger." "Snowboardin'" kicks off the trip into a winter wonderland -- an uplifting Beach Boys-ish groover full of festive joy. Drenched in sleighbells, glockenspiel and backing vocals, it makes you wanna slide down snowy hills. "Winter Road" is a beautiful Christmas tale of hope in dark times, and one of the strongest Pearlfishers songs yet. "Blue December (In The City)" is a piano-based ballad with a great intro and a beautiful late night vibe -- Cole Porter meets Paul McCartney. Picking up the tempo, "Snow Plus Christmas" introduces party-vibe bass drum pumps, and "Ice Race" is pure ba-ba-ba heaven featuring great Swingle Singers-like vocal harmonies. "The Snow Lamb" and "Away In A Manger/A Sunflower At Christmas" close the record in a more introspective mood. Both tracks feature intricate arrangements and multi-layered vocals -- each listen revealing beautiful new details: "The Snow Lamb" has an almost Bach-like quality to it -- built on a repetitive enchanting rhythm pattern. After you've listened to this, you really believe it's Christmas... snowmen may have a meltdown.

Artist:	PEARLFISHERS, THE
Title:	A Sunflower At Christmas
Label:	MARINA (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MA 063LP

LP version. Originally released by Marina Records in 2004. Reviving a good old pop tradition, this Glasgow pop band produced an entire mini-album of exclusive Christmas songs. This record -- the band's fifth for Marina -- features seven original compositions by main Pearlfisher David Scott and a lovely treatment of the Christmas classic "Away In A Manger." "Snowboardin'" kicks off the trip into a winter wonderland -- an uplifting Beach Boys-ish groover full of festive joy. Drenched in sleighbells, glockenspiel and backing vocals, it makes you wanna slide down snowy hills. "Winter Road" is a beautiful Christmas tale of hope in dark times, and one of the strongest Pearlfishers songs yet. "Blue December (In The City)" is a piano-based ballad with a great intro and a beautiful late night vibe -- Cole Porter meets Paul McCartney. Picking up the tempo, "Snow Plus Christmas" introduces party-vibe bass drum pumps, and "Ice Race" is pure ba-ba-ba heaven featuring great Swingle Singers-like vocal harmonies. "The Snow Lamb" and "Away In A Manger/A Sunflower At Christmas" close the record in a more introspective mood. Both tracks feature intricate arrangements and multi-layered vocals -- each listen revealing beautiful new details: "The Snow Lamb" has an almost Bach-like quality to it -- built on a repetitive enchanting rhythm pattern. After you've listened to this, you really believe it's Christmas... snowmen may have a meltdown.

Artist:	PEARLFISHERS, THE
Title:	The Young Picknickers
Label:	MARINA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MA 065CD

"Re-release in a digipack with 3 bonus tracks. An ever-shifting Scottish group led by singer/songwriter David Scott, the only constant member, The Pearlfishers are a glorious soft pop band mixing acoustic-based music with subtle orchestral flourishes, rather like a Glasgow-based Prefab Sprout with a major Brian Wilson fixation. Since forming in 1989, The Pearlfishers have refined and broadened their sound while maintaining a steadily growing cult following. David Scott began writing songs while a teenager in Glasgow in the early '80s. In the summer of 1984, Scott played his earliest bedroom efforts to local musician Bobby Henry, who offered to put a pair of them on The Shift Compilation, an anthology of Glasgow bands released on Henry's own Shift Records. Released under the band name Chewy Raccoon, a joke name that stuck, the songs attracted enough attention that Scott and the band were signed to Shift's distributor, Phonogram, who released the group's sole single, 'Don't Touch Me,' in August 1985."

Artist:	PEARLFISHERS, THE
Title:	Up With The Larks
Label:	MARINA (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MA 069CD

After an extended hiatus, Glasgow's The Pearlfishers return refreshed and improved with Up With The Larks, their sixth album for Marina Records -- the latest in a line of orch-pop masterpieces. The album is clear evidence that main Pearlfisher David Scott continues his unique musical journey with renewed joy and verve -- and that classic songwriting and well-crafted arrangements are alive and well in 2007. Joyous title track, "Up With The Larks" starts it off, rich with lush vocal harmonies, multi-layered guitar texture, the wild jangle of a battered upright piano and exquisite melodic twists and turns. Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake co-produced four of the album's cuts, starting with "The Bluebells" -- a beautiful, string-laden rumination on the turning of seasons. "Womack and Womack" recalls Scott's early days running with the hawks of the major music industry and "Ring The Bells For A Day" is complete with the glittering Big Star chime of massed Fender Stratocasters. The Pearlfishers' 2006 Japanese tour with BMX Bandits is thrillingly recounted in "The Umbrellas Of Shibuya," a song which references Michel Legrand's classic movie opera, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, but locates itself in a Tokyo rainstorm -- with neon puddles, painted in Morricone banjos, Sakamoto synth blooms, Nilsson mouth music and, most tellingly, Scott's truly unique sense of melody and structure. Another highlight is the Randy Newman-esque "With You On My Mind," which sounds like a lost Tin Pan Alley classic arranged by Van Dyke Parks. "London's In Love" could be the theme song to an as-yet-to-be-made romantic comedy blockbuster, set in the "blue black air" of Britain's capital, full of promise and heartbreak. The Pearlfishers, firmly rooted in the classic tradition of three-minute cinematics as pioneered by Webb, McCartney and Rufus Wainwright, reach a great finale with the album's closing songs: "Blue Riders On The Range," a sparkling widescreen epic (sounding like Marvin & Diana doing Ram) and the gorgeous, pastoral "I Just See The Rainbow," which ends the album on an optimistic note.

Artist:	PEARLFISHERS, THE
Title:	The Umbrellas of Shibuya
Label:	MARINA (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	MA 070EP

The Pearlfishers proudly announce the release of the 7" single, The Umbrellas Of Shibuya, taken from their album, Up With The Larks. This 7" is strictly limited and available on white vinyl. "The Umbrellas Of Shibuya" takes its reference point from Michel Legrand's classic movie opera, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, but locates itself in a Tokyo rainstorm -- with neon puddles, painted in Morricone banjos, Sakamoto synth blooms, Nilsson mouth music and David Scott's unique sense of melody and structure. The B-side features the exclusive new track, "Clumsy."

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