Songs for the New Industrial State

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“A stunning collection of new songs for and about the time we live in,” billed the text on the backside of composer Doug Randle’s 1971-released Songs For The New Industrial State . Doug Randle was a writer, arranger, musician, and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s. After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position at the government sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC