{"product_id":"jesse-rae-ft-adrian-sherwood-bernie-worrell-etc-the-flesher","title":"Jesse Rae (ft. Adrian Sherwood, Bernie Worrell etc.) - The Flesher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e12 tracks unearthed from cult Scottish figure \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s completely overlooked back catalogue. Collected archive material from the past 25 years, originally composed as an OST for the feature length film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flesher\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1992) which was also written and directed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. No copies remain. Deep cuts that span G-funk, hip-hop, house, synth-pop, electro, dub, downtempo, funk\/soul featuring appearances from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s heavyweight list of frequent collaborators… Bernie Worrell, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdrian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSherwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Jimmy Douglass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis has been a very personal project and a mammoth undertaking for us folks here PACE HQ: 12 tracks unearthed from the cult Scottish figure’s completely overlooked back catalogue. Collected archive material from the past 25 years, originally composed as an OST for the feature length film \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flesher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1992) which was also written, shot and directed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. No copies remain. Deep cuts that span G-funk, hip-hop, house, synth-pop, electro, dub, downtempo, funk\/soul, R’n’B with appearances from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s heavyweight list of frequent collaborators… Bernie Worrell, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAdrian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSherwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Jimmy Douglass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In 1991, the Scottish Rugby Union \u0026amp; the Royal Bank of Scotland, commissioned me tae make  the world's first Scotland World Cup music video... they didn’t pay me so I fought back. It took 18 years tae win, and I nearly lost everything. I turned to audio visual art: under the pseudonym Jock Pleasure - I wrote and directed a feature length film called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flesher\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas well as creating 100s of full length DVDs and tracks” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne man took on the banks and won, but it took its toll and in this totemic corpus of work \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRae\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e counts the cost. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Flesher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is art as pure defiance: “this stuff is very dark and deep, it is such a vast body o’ work, but when I won my battle against the bank, I secretly returned tae Hodge Close (in the Scottish borders) and dropped the entire work sealed in stone intae the deep deep murky depths of that water, where it has remained since 2009. There are no mair copies.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat we have here then is the salvaged remains. A hopeful dunt of Scottish erotica that gets you right in the pits.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSplice DJ Screw with Dean Blunt, Moodymann, Prince, Cocteau Twins, MF DOOM, Luther Van fuckin’ Dross, Barry fuckin’ White; run that through the B-movie videotape static meets Harmony Korine, Les Blank \u0026amp; early Grand Theft Auto. Empty boulevards. Small-town strip joints. Late-night dial-up. Sacrifice and solace. Outside of the OST, there’s a cast of forgotten characters: primary school kids making house jams, teenage popstars from the Scottish Borders, and the rhapsodic Ayrshire soprano NIKA laying down haunting vocals in Miami.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCelebrated as a cult figure in the USA, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJesse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s work has never fully had the appreciation it deserves at home. Not really. Aye, we know \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInside Out\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Thistle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. But he’s too easily fobbed off as an eccentric outsider: a helmet-wearing, claymore-wielding gimmick. But do we really know the extent of what this man has done - and gone through - for the sake of art?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pace Yourself","offers":[{"title":"2x12\"","offer_id":54095450374486,"sku":"MRM-05842","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/unnamed_1_0c264216-925d-49b3-bbf4-f2e0f63dcca6.png?v=1780592495","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/jesse-rae-ft-adrian-sherwood-bernie-worrell-etc-the-flesher","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}