Despite losing all his musical equipment and the recorded tracks from an upcoming album, Mike Score, the veteran musician and lead singer of the legendary 80s band A Flock of Seagulls, launched his new album, "Zeebratta," on March 1.
"It's a rough road, but I'm very proud to say that this album is coming out with some new and very exciting music for the fans," Score said.
Zeebratta is available on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mike-score/id15090008, Amazon, CDBaby.com and everywhere.
It was just last July when the band's van was stolen in Los Angeles along with all their music gear, including hard drives (altogether totaling $70,000) that contained the recorded music from the proposed album that became "Zeebratta."
"I knew that I wasn't going to give up on the album," Score said. "I was committed to it and the music so if I had to re-record the whole album from scratch I would. Luckily, we had backup copies of the masters."
As a member of the popular British band, Score was there from the beginning as A Flock of
Seagulls took the music world by storm in the 1980s with such hits as "I Ran," "Space Age Love Song" and "Wishing (if I Had a Photograph of You)," among others.
Although A Flock of
Seagulls is still going strong, Score always felt the need to record many of the songs that he had written over the years that were never recorded by the band.
"They were good songs, but I never thought they really fit the kind of music the
Seagulls played, so I put them away, thinking someday I'd record a solo album," he said.
More than 30 years after A Flock of
Seagulls made their debut, Score's new solo album is ready for release on March 1 and a new single, "Somebody Like You," was released last month.
The new album features Score's own musical sensibilities that mix New Wave, atmospheric and gothic rock with a variety of sounds that include acoustic guitars, violins, synthesizers and even a set of bagpipes to provide their own unique moods for a musical blend he calls "Retro Futuristic."
The songs include the single "Somebody Like You," which features Score channeling his New Wave roots with a catchy synthesizer riff reminiscent of his Seagull music. His melodic "Angel" features bagpipes, giving it a military feel that is unlike anything Score has recorded.
"I was thinking of the Scottish Hills. I told guitarist Joe Rodriguez, 'I want bagpipes on the middle 8 and military drums - it was kind of a joke to start with - but once done, they sounded fantastic," Score said.
Music producer and A Flock of
Seagulls guitarist Joe Rodriguez, who produced the album with fellow producer Mikal Read said he was pleased with the new album.
"Mike has put together a great set of music and it's to his credit that he didn't let losing the hard drives stop him from completing this album,"
Rodriguez said.
The new album includes the tracks "All I Wanna Do," "Somebody Like You," "Angel," "Xtacy," "The Girl with the Black Eyes," "Poor Boy," "Take Your Time," "I Call Your Name Out," "Catsong," "Home," "Love In," "Money," "Valentine," and "Wasteland."
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