Simon Joyner - Pocket Moon"'Singer songwriter' is a frustratingly confining term; to truly understand exactly just how confining, look no further than the recorded works of Simon Joyner, an artist whose work consistently transcends the narrow parameters of genre classifications and record shop bin cards. Though his music has always honored, reckoned with wrestled with the tradition set forth by his songwriting forebears (Cohen, Van Zandt, Ochs, Dylan, Reed to name a few),

The youngest band signed to Adelia Records

Jukka Pekka Saraste and Enoch zu Guttenberg

he has traveled the black spiral to bring a new selection that proudly features a number of rarely-heard pieces and even an unreleased track by Marco Attali

With roomier drums and more electric-guitars-per-square-inch than ever

have chosen to record Paul Hindemith's song cycle Das Marienleben

which marked his first #1 on the UK album chart

It also includes a reproduction poster and a reproduction press kit folder

the 12-page booklet includes plenty of photos

and he in turn is grateful to the Edition Offenburg publishing company

he achieved fame through sacred music

a strange eclipse of the sun

the peculiar expression of the people from this land down south