About
Release date: one album every Sunday, beginning 15th November 2009 for 18 weeks
Pressing: 18x free MP3 download
Written and produced by Bernie Sizzey and friends
Executive producer: Lee Ashcroft
Album listing
All albums credited to Bernie Sizzey unless otherwise stated.
- Bernie… The Early Years…… - From Reel To Real 1981----1985 (2000)
- Forever Friends (2000) (available now 6/12)
- Solitaire - The Game So Far (2001) (currently unavailable)
- Solitaire - Next Moves (2001) (currently unavailable)
- Solitaire - Bit By Bit (2002) (currently unavailable)
- A Nice Pear (double-album 2003) (currently unavailable)
- Flux Transmissions (2004) (currently unavailable)
- The End Of The Game (2005) (currently unavailable)
- A Trip Into Paradise (2005) (currently unavailable)
- In Retroflection (2005) (currently unavailable)
- At The Walls... (2006) (currently unavailable)
- The Dream Sequence... (2006) (currently unavailable)
- Bernie - Hippie Princess (2006) (currently unavailable)
- Bernie - Dementia Praecox (2007) (currently unavailable)
- Bernie - The Soft Machine (2007) (currently unavailable)
- Solitaire - Encore; A Live Spoof (2003) (currently unavailable)
- Bernie Sizzey's Solitaire - Encore d'Amour... A Live Spoof 2005 (2005) (currently unavailable)
- Hippie Scat (best-of 2007)
Details
Welcome to Bernie's World..
Since the 1980s, Colchester, England's Bernie Sizzey has been making some of the strangest pop music you'll ever hear. Everything from the darkest goth-rock to comedy hip-hop and everything in between has been covered in his inimitable style. At the turn of the millenium, he started releasing some of these tracks on CD-R, with no further means of distribution than giving them to friends and gig-goers. Late in 2005, I got hold of a few of these discs and was blown away. Everything about it was unique, from the discs themselves with bits of tobacco and weed stuck to them, to the rarely sincere music and lyrics contained within, performed and recorded on borrowed and found equipment. He is arguably Colchester's answer to Daniel Johnston - he is certainly the town's only true musical outsider - and his music deserves to be heard by more people. So I am proud to be able to announce this epic 19-disc MP3 release (originally released as a CD-R box-set in an edition of two - and I own one), covering the vast majority of Bernie's work up until the summer of 2007, including work recorded under the name Solitaire.
Many of the discs are highly corrupted, so a great deal of effort is going in to remastering the discs back to their full glory. The discs will be encoded as top-quality variable bitrate MP3s, with all variations in volume intact and full cover art (water-damage and leaf-stains included), available to download absolutely free with Bernie's full blessing.
You might not like the music. In fact, you'll probably hate it. But it should stand as testament to one of the few musicians left in the world making music not for the fame and the fortune, or even the most basic form of public recognition, but for the love of expressing himself artistically, in the pursuit of making something genuine and heartfelt, in an industry full of postmodern irony and ultra-polished, meaningless shit like Lily Allen.
Bernie Sizzey - belief in the leaf since 1981…
