Primal Scream and Felt keyboard legend Martin Duffy is about to release his very first solo album, entitled 'Assorted Promenades'. It will be issued via Tim Burgess's brilliant O Genesis label on August 4. On 'Promenading', a glistening, soft focus tranquility evolves into something not too far from Screamadelica's gorgeous 'Inner Flight', a lovely taster of an album that's promising to be a real treat. The press release explains how the album came about: "Martin Duffy has always been thought of in relation to other bands - he didn't really do things on his own. From Felt in 1985 through to Primal Scream today, he was always a part of someone else's sum. It was Duffy - like Prince and Madonna he's legendary enough to just go by one name - who was the lynchpin in the continuation of The Charlatans after Rob Collins's tragic death - finishing recordings and stepping in until a new keyboard player could be found.Throughout all that time, he worked on ideas of his own but had never played anything to anyone. He joined Tim Burgess's solo band for a tour in 2012 not long after Tim had started his own label, O Genesis. Somewhere near motorway services on the M4, close to Reading they drove past an abandoned car on the hard shoulder that was on fire. It was seen as a very oblique sign that O Genesis should release the first solo material by Martin Duffy..."
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