Justine

Sully Prudhomme - the first Nobel Prize winner for literature. His poems have inspired a variety of musicians to write wonderful compositions, including Gabriel Fauré, George Enescu and Louis Vierne. Soprano Marie-Pierre Roy and pianist Justine Eckhaut have assembled an impressive selection of these songs into a fascinating album that demonstrates the stylistic range of song composition at the turn of the 20th century and beyond.

Managed by the fledgling partnership of EMI A&R man Tim Rice and gifted young arranger Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tales of Justine were a teenage psychedelic trio led by pop wunderkind David Daltrey. Regulars on the London underground circuit of 1967-68, they played at such venues as Happening 44, the Electric Garden and Middle Earth as well as organising their own "psychedelicise suburbia" freak-out in their sleepy Potters Bar hometown. Signed by EMI in August 1967, the band issued a solitary single, 'Albert' b/w 'Monday Morning', during their eighteen-month sojourn with the label. Although it received little attention at the time, the B-side is now acknowledged as a Britpsych classic that has appeared on numerous genre anthologies, including Psychedelia at Abbey Road and the Mojo box set Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers. In addition to that single, Tales of Justine cut numerous high quality demos at Abbey Road that now gain their first-ever CD issue on Petals From A Sunflower, with half-a-dozen tracks being previously unissued in any format.

Managed by the fledgling partnership of EMI A&R man Tim Rice and gifted young arranger Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tales of Justine were a teenage psychedelic trio led by pop wunderkind David Daltrey. Regulars on the London underground circuit of 1967-68, they played at such venues as Happening 44, the Electric Garden and Middle Earth as well as organising their own "psychedelicise suburbia" freak-out in their sleepy Potters Bar hometown. Signed by EMI in August 1967, the band issued a solitary single, 'Albert' b/w 'Monday Morning', during their eighteen-month sojourn with the label. Although it received little attention at the time, the B-side is now acknowledged as a Britpsych classic that has appeared on numerous genre anthologies, including Psychedelia at Abbey Road and the Mojo box set Acid Drops, Spacedust and Flying Saucers. In addition to that single, Tales of Justine cut numerous high quality demos at Abbey Road that now gain their first-ever CD issue on Petals From A Sunflower, with half-a-dozen tracks being previously unissued in any format.