The Year Of The Leopard

For promotional use only / not for sale This promotional CD remains the property of Domino Recording Co Ltd and must be surrendered upon request Domino Recording Co. Ltd. P.O. Box 47029 London SW18 1WD www.jamesyorkston.co.uk www.dominorecordco.com 'The Year Of The Leopard' is the arresting, intimate third album from singer and wirter James Yorkston. Though taking a year to complete, it's a record born of spontanetiy. Discarding more elaborate compositions, Yorkston settled on the songs that had come to him unbidden whilst reading or walking, setting them in spare, acoustic arrangements and often keeping vocals from the very first time the songs were sung. The result is a candid and heartfelt record, beautifully recorded by producer Paul Webb (aka Rustin Man) and veteran engeneer Phil Brown - the venerable team who met on Talk Talk's 'Spirit Of Eden', where Webb was the bass player, and who are most noted for the superb Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man Album 'Out Of Season'. Yorkston has always been displaced from musical categorisation, having come up through garage punk, country rock and traditional folk music and has been a long-serving member of the famously eclectic and eccentric Fence Collective. Though often labelled a folk artist, Yorkston is more part of a broader tradition that might include everyone from Richard Brautigan to Karen Dalton, Jacques Brel, Can, Scott Walker, Lal Waterson and Johnny Cash - idiosyncratic creators of personal, atmospheric music and words of no fixed abode. This is the album where James rightfully stands among such stellar company. ℗ & © 2006 Domino Recording Co Ltd Made in the EU Comes in a gatefold cardboard sleeve.