It was during rare moments of cool sunlight that Jeff Martin (IDAHO) was able to create his last release 'The Lone Gunman" (Talitres, 2005) amidst a trial by fire initiation into the corporate world of TV scoring. But now, with a writers' strike shutting down the industry, he is free to pursue his true love. Half way into the completion of the next release, he sees it fit to re-release the now out of print The Forbidden ep /Alas '97/'98 on one CD. These records represented an unexpected turn from Idaho's beautifully bombastic rocker "3 sheets to the wind" '96, paired down from a full size band to a duo. These 2 long out of print cd's represent a study in economy and subtlety that still sound fresh and new today. The last song "the sun is all there is" gives the listener a hint of what to follow a few months later at the millennium change with " Hearts of Palm" which was voted one of the top five releases of the year by French paper "Libération" along with Radiohead and Johnny Cash.

The commercial edition comes in a deluxe digisleeve packaging and with an extra disc that include some cues Jeff wrote for the score for the film "How to make the cruelest month" in 1997 between recording 'The Forbidden e.p.' and "Alas".
 
This product will be in stock on Monday 11 February, 2008.

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