TSPTR x EARTH Recordings Scott Fagan limited edition LP and T Shirt set

LIMITED EDITION OF 30 SETS

The first vinyl reissue with original sleeve since 1968 of Scott Fagan's seminal debut album ‘South Atlantic Blues’, complete with a premium weight 100% organic cotton TSPTR tee in white with the LP's original artwork, an iconic portrait of Fagan by famed rock photographer, Joel Brodsky

Revisiting his mystical, mythical, and deeply soulful masterpiece, this psych-folk gem doffs a Tropicalia hat direct from downtown New York. “His songs embrace a broad sonic fantasia, swirling in ’60s New York R&B and ’40s jazz, as well as the Caribbean rhythms of calypso, meringue and Pachanga.” - New York Times

Scott Fagan’s story is worthy of a movie in itself. A swinging hipster who landed in 60s Greenwich folk scene, escaping the abject poverty of his U.S. Virgin Islands upbringing, Fagan found himself mentored by the Brill Building’s Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, and feted as the next big thing. “Forget Rodriguez, forget Searching for Sugar Man,” says Sharyn Felder, daughter of the late Doc Pomus, the legendary songwriter who signed Fagan to management in 1964. “Scott was so much more. He was cut from a different cloth.”

‘South Atlantic Blues’ is the perfect soundtrack to this tale, an epic song cycle wrapped around an impassioned love story, driven by Fagan’s dense, allusive lyrics, and production by Elmer Jared Gordon (Pearls Before Swine) and rich arrangements by Horace Ott (Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, The Shirelles). The Earth Recordings reissue coincides with a resurgence in activity for Fagan, with a new album in the works – the never-recorded soundtrack to ‘Soon’, the 1971 Broadway rock musical he co-wrote and starred in – and a documentary ‘Soon: the Story of Scott Fagan’ currently filming through Scissor Kick Films, from director Marah Strauch, writer Chris Campion (who rediscovered the singer-songwriter in 2015), and producer Eric Bruggeman.

Earth Recordings is an independent reissue specialist producing high quality archival releases. Earth has gone from strength to strength and now includes the support of the Fire Records team and an array of members including catalogue specialist and writer Pat Thomas, formerly of Light In the Attic.

In an over-saturated marketplace for rediscovered ‘classics’ Earth takes a patient, quality over quantity approach, often working hand-in-glove with artists and estate, to create lavish packages that reflect the esteem the music is held in. From privately issued Tasmanian psych-folk obscurities to the bona-fide royalty of British folk music (Bert Jansch, Shirley Collins, Anne Briggs), with various digressions in between including Dennis Hoppers ‘The Last Movie’ Soundtrack and the undefinable ‘Trees’), Earth’s eclectic catalogue is built on a love for music rooted in tradition but shot through with free-spirited nature.

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