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FUSE RECORDS CFCD024 

Tracks:
Conversation on a Mobile
The Ghost of Georges Brassens
Barney’s Epic Homer
Barney’s Got a Job Now
A Proper State
When They Ask Me
The Third Intifada
See Life’s Road Before You
Like Love
Faslane 365
The Power of Song

“This new album is predictably angry but at times startlingly original and sophisticated. It starts with a well-performed, bitter story about mobile phones, which veers between cabaret and a thoughtful observation on non-communication in a communication-obsessed world. Then comes a song about the great French songwriter Georges Brassens, and a series of political and social comment songs that deal with everything from fame and the consumer society through to death, the Middle East and nuclear disarmament, using an elaborate mixture of stories and musical ideas.” – GUARDIAN (See the full article at the guardian.co.uk) 

“Another triumph of the craft of wordsmithery and full of typically nifty and barbed wordplay… Another splendid set” – fROOTS

“He’s had a long career but this is one of his best.” – MOJO

“The songs on A Proper State, like those throughout his half century of singing and writing, obstinately defy category… The title track excoriates the bread and circus world of celebrity obsession, fashion-fetishism and the ‘heart-shaped emptiness’ of liposuction and botoxification…. When They Ask Me casts a lyrical-satirical eye on death, whose complete antithesis, Like Love, is one of the sweetest simile sequences imaginable for that indefinable, yet often over-defined, human condition.” – SOCIALIST LAWYER

“Rosselson is on great form here and has lost none of those qualities which have made him for so long such a fascinating and uplifting presence: a wonderful ear for melody, a poet’s skill with words, a subtle and highly intelligent humour and a brilliant ability to make his theme poignant by concealment.” – THE PENNILESS PRESS

“No composer of songs in our native tongue, it seems to me, gets close to his level of eloquence.” – COLIN RANDALL SALUT LIVE

FUSE RECORDS CFCD 012 

A stunning new release featuring 15 of Britains finest acoustic music performers singing 15 Rosselson classics.

STILL IS THE MEMORY Nancy Kerr & James Fagan
WHOEVER INVENTED THE FISHFINGER John Kirkpatrick
DON’T GET MARRIED GIRLS Elizabeth Mansfield
INVISIBLE MARRIED BREAKFAST BLUES Barb Jungr
WHO REAPS THE PROFITS? WHO PAYS THE PRICE? 
Chris Foster
STAND UP FOR JUDAS David Campbell
SONG OF THE OLIVE TREE Janet Russell
THE WALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN Martin Carthy
LET YOUR HAIR HANG DOWN Daniela Rosselson
MY DAUGHTER MY SON Sandra Kerr
WILLIAM Roy Bailey
THE MAN WHO PUFFS THE BIG CIGAR Eliza Carthy
JACKBOOT DEMOCRATS Des de Moor
THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN Robb Johnson

All songs by Leon Rosselson

‘He has the passion of Brel, the commitment of Brecht and the wit of Lehrer.’ SONGLI NES

‘This is an important album of songs written by England’s greatest living songwriter.’ THE LIVING TRADITION

‘The man is a songwriting colossus’  fROOTS 

FUSE RECORDS CFCD 009

14 Rosselsongs ranging over 40 years from around 1963 to 2004: 

Jumbo the Elephant
Song of the Free Press
The Wall That Stands Between
Remembrance Day
General Lockjaw Briefs the Troops
Monsters
Dead Men Never Die
The Enemy’s Poised to 
Attack
I Don’t Want Your Red, Red Roses
Strange the Things We don’t 
Remember
Brass Band Music
Song of the Olive Tree
They Said…
My Father’s Jewish World.

With Frankie Armstrong, Bill Amatneek, Martin Carthy, Robb Johnson, Elizabeth Mansfield, Camilla Saunders, Fiz Shapur, 
Jody Stecher & Miranda Sykes.

‘… lyrics of genuine wit and poetic value’ – DAILY TELEGRAPH, 24 July 2004
                       
 ‘Buy this album and ruin a dinner party with a heated political debate. Not many people can do that.’ fROOTS  – Aug/Sept 2004
       
‘Rosselson defines the power, musical eloquence and history of politicised song’ – RECORD COLLECTOR Nov 2004

‘… he holds the attention through sharp writing that deploys anger, irony and wit in appropriate measures’ – THE LIVING TRADITION Sept/Oct 2004