Monday, 27 April 2020

Adam Schmitt "The Reprise Demos" 1992

Singer / songwriter Adam Schmitt first won acclaim in the early '90s when his 1991 debut album, World So Bright, and 1993 follow-up, Illiterature, had critics hailing him as a young pop genius…...However, when his label Reprise didn't want to release a third album from him, Schmitt decided to record other artists instead, engineering, producing, and mastering music for Tommy Keene, Hum, Beezus, Robynn Ragland, and others in his home studio. By 1998, Schmitt was ready to concentrate on his own music again, but his perfectionism and production work delayed the release of his third effort until the middle of 2001. That album, Demolition, was issued by Parasol; Schmitt started out as a producer by working with many of the label's artists. - Artist Biography by Heather Pharestrax:
01 Dimestore (unreleased) 02 Brighter days 03 garden of love 04 River black 05 Birds in the sky 06 world so bright 07 Handful of trouble 08 Dead fin 09 1000 times 10 big city [unreleased] 11 Love is on the rocks 12 waterloo [unreleased] 13 the hardest part [unreleased] 14 scared like me [unreleased] 15 everything turned blue 16 lost 17 scarlet street 18 a certain hold on you [unreleased] 19 on that train [unreleased] 20 lighthouse [unreleased] 21 falling stars 22 Funny things 23 Looking at the moon 24 the straightest line [unreleased] 25 why don't i cry [unreleased]
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13 comments:

RYP said...

Adam Schmitt "The Reprise Demos"
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gitit! no pw
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mg55do38sz90mk8/adam_schmitt_-_the_reprise_demos_%281992%29.zip/file

Tidesworthy said...

good stuff THANKS!

Jim H. said...

thanks! i've had much of this on cassette since the mid 90s, nice to have them digitally!!!!

Jean-Jacques Mura said...

@RYP
Very nice. Thanks !

Jean-Jacques Mura said...

@montymusic

All my apologies ! I thank you for this one. It's very nice !

Anonymous said...

Yawning Angel sez...

Monty & RYP, thanks!

johnnybgoode said...

THANKS THANKS!! What a great gift

ken49 said...

What a coincidence, I was just listening to some demos on Parasol. Don't know if these are the same or not. Any chance of getting Demolition posted. This is what talented dude. Love the 1st, not so much.

Bluesthinker said...

Great artist

RYP said...

ken49,
more Adam Schmitt to come:
"From The Vaults" 1992
"Illiterature" 1993
"Parasol Demos" 1999
"Demolition" 2001

Stay tuned!

George Leroy Tirebiter said...

Re: ken49: ...just listening to some demos on Parasol. Don't know if these are the same or not.

The Parasol Demos EP from 1999 has 4 songs, one later included in the 2001 Parasol 10-song cd Demolition (Parasol Demos - get it, heh). The cdr EP originated from someone who worked at Parasol then, who sent it to two power-pop centric labels, one of whom sent it to me. I'm not aware of any other Parasol specific cuts other than those 13 tunes, but if more have surfaced would love to hear 'em. Adam being a producer, I wouldn't be surprised if there's plenty of unheard stuff.

Jim H. said...

i have a few songs from the Parasol Demos as well, "Onion Heart" and "Only Her" being the two i have on my iTunes......i still think i have Adam's earlier 90s (maybe late 80s) band Pop The Balloon on cassette somewhere......

cedric said...

"La classe", as we said in France.
Thanks !