After twenty years in Everything But The Girl, and ten years as a respected DJ and record label boss of Buzzin’ Fly, Ben Watt announced last year he was parking everything to complete two long-planned creative solo projects.
The first – published by Bloomsbury on February 13 in the UK and in June in North America – is his long-awaited second book, Romany and Tom, a dazzling portrait of his parents. The second is Hendra, his first solo album for over thirty years, released on his own new imprint, Unmade Road through Caroline International on April 29th. It is, in Ben’s words, “simply a folk-rock record in an electronic age.”
The album’s title track “Hendra” was premiered today with The Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/feb/12/ben-watt-hendra
