Day 311.

Ring Snuten: well, well, what a nice surprise to get a new song by Patrik and his solo project Ring Snuten! The new song, “Början på Slutet” is terrific (as usual!). I just hope we get to see more songs of his this year. Last tring ime he shared one was back in 2019! That’s not right! We fans of his multiple projects, including the legendary Hormones in Abundance, want to listen more Ring Snuten songs!

Mt. Misery: two songs by this band on Prefect Records from London. They were released last September and I’m only listening these two fine slices of pop. They are “The Dreaming Days are Over” and “I Was Wrong” and they were released on 7″.

Tijeras: what a lovely song, written, performed and recorded by Nikki Navarro from Chicago. The song is called “In the Darkness” and we find the regular version with electric guitars and an acoustic version on her Bandcamp. And that’s all. We really would love to hear more!

Still Corners: they have just released the third single for their upcoming album “The Last Exit” that is coming out on January 22. The new song is called “White Sands” and here I am sharing the video which I feel they got it very right, it is a song that feels like a road movie.

Annual Leaf: and we head back to Australia, to Melbourne, to be exact to discover the song “Fairground Weather” which is the first single of the band’s forthcoming EP “Another Wave Home”. It sounds good! Pleasure to meet you Matt Bruorton, Mel Bruorton, Jesse Williams and Paul Glubb. Looking forward to the EP.

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Lately I’ve been looking into bands from the Marsh-Marigold catalogue. So let’s check one more!

The Purelove seems a very obscure band. I don’t know much about them. I own one album, “King Pop”, released by Marsh-Marigold in 1997. And that’s it. From what I understand they didn’t release anything else nor appeared on compilations. So yeah, they were German, that much is clear. But that’s it. Let’s try to find out more then.

So their album was released on CD, with catalog number Mari 11. It had 12 songs in this order, “By My Side”, “Dance”, “Two Faces”, “Ascendancy”, “Leaving You”, “Sister Death”, “Pretty Confusion”, “Little Devil”, “Grey Day”, “First Sight”, “Fall in Love” and “Fairweather Friends”.

From the CD booklet we know behind the band there were two guys, Arne Jasse and Jörg Fiedler (who seems to go under the name Fidel). Jasse was on vocals while Fiedler played keys and programming. The album songs were recorded and mixed by Clemens Kinder and mastered by Helge Helvé.

Now here is an interesting fact, Pat Fish from The Jazz Butcher played acoustic and electric guitars in the album. How cool is that. I didn’t know this. Michèle Bernard played backing vocals.

All songs were written by Jasse and the music by Fiedler, but one, “Sister Death” is of course a song by The Jazz Butcher. The photos on the booklet were taken by Fiedler while the band photo on the back of the CD was taken by Christian Stoll. The overall artwork design is credited to Robert Fliegel.

One detail I find on The Jazz Butcher page is that Pat Fish also joined the band on a 1997 tour around Germany. How cool. Another thing I find is that there was a tribute album from 2000 called “the Butcher is my Friend – A Shameless Tribute to the Jazz Butcher” were The Purelove appears with  “Sister Death Pt. 1” and “Sister Death Pt. 2”. This CD was only available to those in the Jazz Butcher email list. It doesn’t even appear on Discogs!

There seems to be very little information about the band. There is one review on Amazon Germany where they mention the band mostly played gigs in Hamburg. Okay, I think we can assume the band hailed from that great side. This same person mentions that the band was working on a second album and they had a song called “Bullet for A Rainy Day” and some cover that were going to be included in it. But this album never got released! Shame…. but can we find these songs somewhere?

One thing I do find, that is a website for Jörg Fiedler. It is called Fidel Musik, where he offers his service as a composer. It mentions that he has been in the Hamburg scene since 1994… would be nice to know then what other bands he was involved prior The Purelove! Then it mentions that he has collaborated with The Jazz Butcher and since the year 2000 he has been playing solo and in German under the name Fidel.

Among his work as a composer he has done lyrics and music for trailers, sports clubs, “The Song of the North” and the charity campaign “Hand in Hand for Northern Germany” by the television station NDR.

Well, that’s all I could find! What happened to Arne? Did he continue making music as well? Maybe we should try and get in touch with Jörg and find out more about The Purelove, their beautiful and classy music, and what happened to that second album!

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Listen
The Purelove – Little Devil