Mark Stewart and The Maffia - Learning To Cope With Cowardice/ The Lost Tapes (Definitive Edition)Learning To Cope With Cowardice, the groundbreaking debut solo album by visionary post punk iconoclast Mark Stewart, is to be given a definitive reissue alongside The Lost Tapes, a newly discovered cache of unreleased material. Learning To Cope With Cowardice is a vital chapter in the legacy of Mark Stewart & The Maffia, a project that would prove to be a revolutionary benchmark for many, from the innovators of the Bristol Sound (The Wild Bunch, Smith

‘Berlin School’

The album was recorded in Dead Meadows’ studio/rehearsal space

' is an album exploring deep

In 2016 Soul Jazz Records returned to Haiti once more to record a new second volume of the same intense Vodou drumming

township harmonies and top level musicianship

his music was hot on the charts

although the vocals are in narrative form

When Randall and Hall reunited to collaborate on another album together

or a boozy piano staggers across the dance floor

they’ve created a record that possesses their own clear styles but also a new voice too

the first volume in a series of three

It was a glossy