JURYMAN
The Hill
SSR224
SSR 2000
12 Tracks. 57mins01secs

Ian Simmonds used to be part of The Sandals. When the band split up, in the middle of the nineties, he disapeared for a while and came back on his own, under the Juryman moniker. After a handfull of EPs and an album recorded with Spacer's Luke Gordon, Mail Order Justice, Ian Simmonds releases The Hill, the first proper Juryman album.
Ian Simmonds' electro jazz seduces straight away. Mixing instrumental and vocal tracks, The Hill amazes by its relative simplicity. With collaborations from Alison Goldfrapp, previously heard with Orbital, Trinidad poet Roger Robinson, and many others, Drummonds, who provides most of the vocals, seems to have fun doing what he does. 
This is an album to get lost into, and never come back to reality.

The Hill
The Morning
The Pilot
The Ethiopian
The Killer
The Somme
To Sleep
The Ghost Hunter
The Woven
The Moot
The Enquiry
The Desert

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