Warm And Cool/Songs And Other Things/Around (reissues, 1992, 2006, 2006)
REAL GONE MUSIC
REISSUE OF THE MONTH
BYthe time Tom Verlaine stepped into the studio to record his first instrumental album, , he’d pretty much burned out on the endless cycle of record-release-tour dynamics that goes with life on a major label. Having played the game long enough, Verlaine had taken stock, and was keen to redraw the parameters of both his artistic and his everyday life. He’d long entertained a desire to record an instrumental collection, and there did seem to be something particularly appropriate about one of the most idiosyncratic and individual of guitar players going down that route. For anyone who’d listened to the ecstatic flight of Verlaine’s bird-like guitar over the preceding two decades, was no
