NEWS - WENDY JAMES TENTH ALBUM ‘THE SHAPE OF HISTORY’ OUT 25TH OCTOBER NEW SINGLE ‘FREEDOMSVILLE’

“I grew up, musically, in the age of the sequencer,” reflects Wendy. “There was Transvision Vamp and there was Sigue Sigue Sputnik and we were both drawn into the future by Ridley Scott’s movie ‘Bladerunner’. The futuristic, seedy glamour, the overcrowded Chinatown and the high, high skyscrapers, where the masters of the universe observed and policed down below. Mixed in with that: Polanski’s movie ‘Frantic’, Beineix’s movie ‘Diva’, European dark electro and Klaus Nomi's The Cold Song’. I wrote ‘Freedomsville’ on guitar like all my songs. My mixing engineer Jesse Nichols couldn’t believe how unchanged the recording was from the guide and yet how much sound and arrangement had been created. In the end, I didn’t use sequencers at all, it’s all real humans playing very rhythmically on repeat for six minutes straight.”