BILL FAY GROUP – Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP -The Bill Fay Groups third (initially unreleased) album, recorded between 1978 and 1981. First time back in stock since 2006s first release.Reissue includes new cover by Marlon Williams.

The temptation to mythologize Bill Fay can be overwhelming; Fay was, for decades, as prolific as he was under-appreciated. Fays unsung-hero status has changed slowly, steadily, on the order of almost twenty-five years. With each new album comes new hosannas and evangelizers Jeff Tweedy, Kevin Morby, Adam Granduciel and Julia Jacklin, to name just a few.

The Bill Fay Group, in particular, is Fays most significant collaborative work; he records as a member of a larger group here, and the result summons a grander sonic scale, an elegent counterweight to Fays instincts for the understated. Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow brings to bear the galactic qualities of early rock, the intricacy of jazz improv, and Fays earthy folk magic.

Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow has a patchy release history: recorded between 1978 and 1981, it was not released until 2005, when it appeared on CD with limited streaming and no vinyl companion. A 2006 reissue brought the album onto vinyl but with a truncated sequence and nine song missing. Now, finally, Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow arrives in full worldwide. Available on streaming services worldwide and pressed to a double-album vinyl edition, it features the albums original 22 songs and includes rare and previously unseen photographs from Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrows original recording session.

In the words of Gary Smith and Rauf Galip, missing Bill Stratton, and abbreviated from the forthcoming album notes:

We chose five songs to record as finished pieces: Life, Spiritual Mansions, Cosmic Boxer, Strange Stairway, Isles of Sleep, all recorded in two studio sessions. We sent them out to try and get a record deal. There were few really independent labels back then and Punk was in the record labels ears. No deal.

And now, Dead Oceans who have a lot of faith in Bills music wants to re- release the Tomorrow album. A double vinyl package. Is there any more unreleased music for the fourth side? Of course. So, weve been opening old boxes, finding CDRs, cassettes, a musical archaeological dig. This is our choice from all the music we found.

Fly Like a Bird.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Strange Stairway
2. Spiritual Mansions
3. Planet Earth Daytime
4. Goodnight Stan
5. Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Side B
1. Just A Moon
2. To Be A Part
3. Sam
4. Lamp Shining
5. Turning The Pages
6. Love Is The Tune
7. After The Revolution
8. Jericho Road
9. Strange Stairway (Demo)
10. Birdman (Bonus Track)

Side C
1. Life
2. Hypocrite
3. Man
4. Cosmic Boxer
5. We Are Raised
6. Isle of Sleep

Side D
1. Coming Down
2. Hypocrite (Demo)
3. Spiritual Mansions (Demo)
4. Cosmic Boxer (Alternate Version)
5. The Coast No Man Can Tell (Bonus Track)
6. Man (Take 1)
7. When We Set Sail (Bonus Track)