Hey, I just signed (inked, in Variety-speak) with Mighty Quinn Records here for release of my new Gods and Monsters album in the US, Canada and Japan! Deal was a longtime coming, and lucky for me I have a big friend and fan in Jerry Roche (and also , the guy behind the label, who's been a fan of my work for years, has seen me play live before, and is way gung ho on my band, my little avant-punk supergroup known as Gods and Monsters--and that's the kind of enthusiasm you need these days! Same is true of Fred Barnes and Max Cross who signed me to their Side Salad label in the UK last year , and Freddy Venant who is about to sign me for France to his Productions Speciales label, and Jack Pisters in Amsterdam who's doing ditto on his Dawa Records label for the Benelux. And let us not forget Andrey Borisov, the visionary behind Exotica Music in Russia who put a version of my new album out a year ago in Russia under the name "Follow", and we followed up with some killer shows courtesy of Sasha Cheparukhin last spring that brought Jerry Harrison and his brilliant keyboards into the mix...

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Posted by Gary Lucas to Gary Lucas at 9/14/2006 09:54:00 AM