Royal Family/ Poor - North West SoulBoutique is pleased to announce the release of the first album in five years from The Royal Family & the Poor the cult avant folk electro collective overseen by reclusive Liverpudlian bard Michael Keane. Formed by Mike Keane & others in 1978 an early Situationist agenda saw them join Factory Records in 1980. After two albums (Temple of the 13th Tribe; We Love the Moon) & several singles the Royal Family left the label in 1985 releasing further albums

Designer Time was originally released 1994 on Staalplaat as a CD release

'66 and '67

and on three LPs no less

bandleader

some standards

"Watch Out" was released in 1981 on Fantasy Records and climbed to #37 on the US Billboard R&B chart

See Where The Night Goes brings swinging grooves

Vintersolverv in translation is 'Winter Solstice'

Nora Fischer and Wu Tong

was issued 50 years ago

Gerard Salonga

The astonishing Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records