Name: The Highest in the Land
Brand: The Jazz Butcher

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Bonus disc: No

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TR492LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-04

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Shellshock

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Standard:20

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4015698766479

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

TR492

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Jazz Butcher

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Tapete

Welcome to Tapete, an independent record label based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2002 by Gunther Buskies and Dirk Darmstaedter, Tapete has become a prominent force in the music industry. With a diverse roster of talented artists and performers, we strive to bring you the best in music across various genres.

At Tapete, we are passionate about supporting emerging talent and providing a platform for them to showcase their artistry. Our dedication to quality and innovation has earned us a reputation as a trusted source for exceptional music.

With our *labelcode* LC 12227, we offer an extensive catalog of releases that span multiple formats. From vinyl records to CDs and digital downloads, we ensure that you can enjoy your favorite music in the format that suits you best.

The Jazz Butcher is an indie band that was formed in Oxford, UK, in 1982. Led by Pat Fish, the group project included various members such as Max Eider, David J, Owen "O.P." Jones and Graham "Felix" Fudger until 1986. After signing with Creation Records in 1987/88, the lineup changed frequently and featured musicians like Kizzy O'Callaghan, Laurence O'Keefe, Alex Green and Paul Mulreany. In the late 1990s, The Jazz Butcher reunited with its core members - Pat Fish, Max Eider and Owen Jones - for a series of live shows.

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The Lilac Time

The Go-Betweens,
The Pale Fountains,
Close Lobsters,
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That Petrol Emotion,
The House of Love,
The Railway Children,
The Monochrome Set,
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions,
Julian Cope

The Brilliant Corners,
Robert Forster,
Felt,
Aztec Camera,
 
Orange Juice

It's not often that an artist gets to do a Bowie by consciously carving their personal epitaph into the grooves of their final LP. The Highest in the Land is that rarity of an album, and it could not have been made by a more brilliantly poetic and fearlessly sarcastic writer than Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher.

'My hair's all wrong / My time ain't long / Fishy go to Heaven, get along, get along,' he sings, to a ticking-clock beat in 'Time', rhyming its title with 'a one-way ticket to a pit of Council lime' in just one of many existentially charged moments on a record whose songs were written throughout the last seven years of Fish's life before his untimely passing in October 2021, aged only 63. 'Self-knowledge, urgency,' he wrote as a comment to this song in his private notes to the album's producer Lee Russell, 'He'd been around the block. and knew he was on the last lap.''We had closure," Russell remembers, "We had worked together for three months, and then on the last day I drove him home. And for the first time we hugged and said goodbye, and that was it.'

Recent years have seen a long overdue re-appreciation of The Jazz Butcher catalogue, all the way back to that astonishing 11-album run of the first 13 years of their career, now celebrated and handily compiled in a series of box-sets after decades of shameful neglect.

The Highest in the Land

Music GB

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