8. Fading Yellow
It has become harder to find obscure 45s that are worth anthologising. Putting them together in a new way, so creating a new genre out of music from the past, that’s really hard. A guy in Sweden called Jörgen Johansson put this out – the tracks all have a minor chord melancholy, a definite baroque feel. Nobody was really looking for them, or grouping them together, before Fading Yellow started up, around ten years ago, but this is a definite genre of its own – English Baroque, maybe, things influenced by ‘Eleanor Rigby’, or early Bee Gees, with a hint of psych and bags of tunes. I think he’s up to volume 15 now.
