Artist: Lady June
Title: Hit & Myth
File: Electronic/Experimental
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Twenty-two years after the release of ‘Linguistic Leprosy’, her genre-defying debut with Kevin Ayers and Brian Eno, British artist and performance ‘Lady’ June Campbell Cramer recorded the perfect companion piece in 1996’s ‘Hit & Myth’.
Its musical settings and soundscapes recorded in Belgium and Spain and cast by her many friends from the Canterbury Scene, the album couched perfectly June’s sharp and witty observations on life’s foibles, oddities and absurdities.
Tragically, this free spirit was gone only three years after recording ‘Hit & Myth’, felled by a heart attack at her home in Deia, Majorca, Spain.
She was not a Lady so much as a landlady: the apartment in London’s Maida Vale that she presided over after a decade in Deia working as a model was to be a home for many of the period’s most creative rock musicians. ‘Linguistic Leprosy’ was recorded there.
One national newspaper cited her as “a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster” and it was no coincidence she had worked previously on British TV with the likes of Vivian Stanshall and Kenny Everett.
Lady June was an original and ‘Hit & Myth’ exemplifies her courage and creativity in equal measure.
TRACKS
Missing Person
You Are
Bugs
Sea Cake
Fleas Dream Too
Euston Station
Chernobyl Fall Out
Food for Thought
I Think I’m Raining
Hipopopothesis
Mirage
Canal Reflections
Let’s Blame It All on God
Well in It
Being Needy Makes for Greedy
The Problem