Hine,Rupert Surface Tension: The Recordings 1981-1983 CD

Three CD set gathering together the wonderful music of musician and producer Rupert Hine issued between 1981 and 1983. Surface Tension - The Recordings 1981-1983 includes the albums Immunity, Waving Not Drowning and The Wildest Wish To Fly. This set celebrates the creativity and originality of Rupert's solo work of the early 1980s. The acclaimed and strikingly original Immunity from 1981 saw the noted producer on compositions written by him with lyricist Jeannette Obstoj. Guest performers on the album included Phil Collins and Marianne Faithfull; the album would influence a host of celebrated musicians and continues to do so. The 1982 album Waving Not Drowning was another fine work and was particularly popular in Scandinavia and once again featured Phil Collins, while 1983's The Wildest Wish To Fly was a hit album in Sweden and featured a guest appearance by Robert Palmer among others. All of these recordings were engineered and co-produced by Stephen W Tayler, who has remastered this collection. The liner notes of the illustrated booklet that accompanies this release offer memories and observations of the recording sessions for these ground breaking recordings. This boxed set is a fine tribute to Rupert Hine, a greatly missed musical visionary.

1. I Hang on to My Vertigo 2. Misplaced Love 3. Samsara 4. Surface Tension 5. I Think a Man Will Hang Soon 6. Immunity 7. Another Stranger 8. Psycho Surrender 9. Make a Wish 10. Scratching at Success 11. Introduction to the Menace 12. Eleven Faces 13. The Curious Kind 14. The Set Up 15. Dark Windows 16. The Sniper 17. Innocents in Paradise 18. House Arrest 19. The Outsider 20. One Man's Poison 21. Kwok's Quease 22. Living in Sin 23. No Yellow Heart 24. The Saturation of the Video Rat 25. Firefly in the Night 26. A Golden Age 27. Picture Phone 28. Victim of Wanderlust 29. The Most Dangerous of Men 30. The Wildest Wish to Fly 31. Blue Flame (Melt the Ice) 32. An Eagle's Teaching 33. Picture Phone (Remix) 34. No Yellow Heart (Later Version)