EDISON ROCKET TRAIN - EAST RIVER DELTA (LP, FRANCE) DATE: 24.MAY.2005 LABEL: Human Bretzel CAT NO.: HBZ 12001/1  A1. Tattoo A2. Passionate Man/Holler A3. Ride Your Pony A4. Monster Free Tokyo A5. Strut (Parts I & II) A6. This Train B1. Sugar Baby B2. Milk Cow Blues Boogie B3. Another Man Done Gone B4. Beep! Beep! B5. Strut (Parts III & IV) B6. Interstellar Stomp B7. Future Blues NOTES: VIEW: 140g black vinyl album in picture sleeve with white paper die-cut inner-sleeve with A4 photocopied insert featuring advert on one-side and a set-list on the other. Only released on vinyl originally but also scheduled to appear on CD at a later date. Available on 10.MAY.2005  for sale direct from rockettrain.com. Jon Spencer produced this album and performs on This Train, Monster Free Tokyo and Milk Cow Blues. 'This Train' was released as a single in France with non-album B-Side 'Low Down Ways'.     VIEW: Edison Rocket Train - This Train (7", FRANCE) Matt Verta-Ray, Ron Slavo, Jon Spencer and Mike Edison appear on the Speedball Baby track on: A Salvo of 24 Gunshots (2xLP/7", FRANCE). PRESS RELEASE: "IN DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY, somewhere between 14th St and the Brooklyn Bridge, lies the heart of the East River Delta. As mysterious as it is powerful, this is the illusive center for a new kind of blues. EAST RIVER DELTA, the new LP from the EDISON ROCKET TRAIN, has drawn on the spirit of the mythological power of the East River to create an album of unprecedented soul and depth. Along with producer JON SPENCER, MIKE EDISON (ex Raunch Hands) ripped apart the roots of whisky-driven rock’n’roll and dug deeper into the blues than anyone before him. While songs like PASSIONATE MAN scream old-school boasting in the Jerry Lee Lewis tradition (I know how to drink, and I know how to fuck, I know how to roll, and I know how to rock… I’m a passionate man!), slide guitar numbers like HOLLER and MILK COW BLUES recall the Mississippi Delta and ANOTHER MAN DONE GONE harkens back to African Slave songs. INTERSTELLAR STOMP is like the SONICS in outerspace, and STRUT combines New Orleans street rhythms with STOOGES-like attituded and guitars. Edison plays SUGAR BABY, an old Kentucky banjo song from the 1930s, on his two-string guitar which he calls a Diddley Bow. On THIS TRAIN, Edison leads a gospel choir along with Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray on guitars and MR AIRPLANE MAN on vocals. But the real surprise on the record is MONSTER FREE TOKYO, an accoutic song Edison wrote about September 11 using a science-fiction metaphor. “I was nervous about singing it,” says Edison, who rarely seems nervous about anything. “But Jon (Spencer) told me that if I had something to say, I should say it. I should sing it. Besides getting great sounds and getting them down on tape and all that, his faith in me singing, especially a dark song like this, is what made this record so great.” As usual, the version of the Edison Rocket Train that performs on EAST RIVER DELTA had no bass and no cymbals… just drums and maracas and tambourines. And yet the sound is complete and full. “Heavy strings and a lot of percussion,” that’s the secret, says Edison. He also plays a stylophone, a primitive electronic toy, on Beep! Beep! “I wanted to sing that song in Spanish,” says Edison, but I never finished translating it. One night Jon said just do it the way you have it, half English, Half Spanish. I was very drunk. It came out Spanglish!”" - humanbretzel.com   SONG CREDITS: Vox/Electric Guitar/Slide Guitar/Two-String Diddley Bow/Stylophone/Percussions/Harp/etc.: Mike Edison Trap Drums: Ron Salvo Shakin: Miss Carrie Bkgrnd Vox: Mr Airplane Man/Soraya R. A1. Tattoo Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed A2. Passionate Man/Holler Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed A3. Ride Your Pony Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed A4. Monster Free Tokyo Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed Acoustic Guitar: Jon Spencer Six String Space Soul Invasion: Matt Verta-Ray Electric Organ: Lily Wolfe A5. Strut (Parts I & II) Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed A6. This Train Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed Zap Guitar: Jon Spencer Steel Finger: Matt Verta-Ray B1. Sugar Baby Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed B2. Milk Cow Blues Boogie Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed Tic Tac Bass: Jon Spencer B3. Another Man Done Gone Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed B4. Beep! Beep! Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed B5. Strut (Parts III & IV) Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed B6. Interstellar Stomp Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed Electric Organ: Lily Wolfe B7. Future Blues Produced: Jon Spencer Recorded: Matt Verta-Ray at NY Hed © Mike Edison/Zero Gravity Research 2005 SLEEVE NOTES: "Quand les guerres se gagneront a coup de guitare, le East River Delta sera la Terre Promise pour le nouveau Samourai electrique." DETAILS: ARTWORK: Cover Photo: Cristina Martinez Layout/Design: Cliff Mott BARCODE: n/a RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING: A: "ELDORADO HBZ - 12001 A DMM UP. -12049-" B: "ELDORADO HBZ - 12001 B DMM UP. -12049-" The final '-12049-' at the end is machine-stamped and the rest of the text is hand-written and, in-comparison, upside down. RELATED LINKS: rockettrain.com / humanbretzel@netcourrier.com / humanbretzel.com