The Regeneration of Sydenham Sid & The Penge Pioneers
Albummet, ”The Regeneration of Sydenham Sid & The Penge Pioneers”, indeholder 13 numre komponeret af Carl, med uundværlig inspiration og støtte fra Jes King og Søren ”Ziggy” Poulsen.
Albummets titel er på en måde et forsinket venskabeligt puf til David Bowie, Carls gamle sparringpartner fra Sydlondons musikscene i 1960erne og ”The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”, Bowies egentlige gennembruds album fra 1972. Men i modsætning til Bowies album er der på Carls album tale om en meget jordnær samling af sange, som er præget af Carls humor, ironi, lyrik, nostalgi, tragedie og melankoli, som er sat sammen med solide melodier og intense vokaler.
The album, ”The Regeneration of Sydenham Sid & The Penge Pioneers”, will contain 13 tracks all written by Carl himself, with invaluable inspiration and support from Jes King and Søren ”Ziggy” Poulsen.
The title is in one way a friendly jab, albeit with a four and a half decade delay, at David Bowie, Carl’s old sparring partner from the South London scene of the mid-sixties, and Bowie’s 1972 album ”The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. But unlike Bowie’s album, it is an essentially down-to-earth compilation of songs chararacterized by Carl’s own personal brand of humour, irony, lyricism, nostalgia, tragedy and melancholy, coupled with solid melodies and intense vocals.
Take a look at the first video from the new album: