Always All Around You by Norman Salant

Another brilliant album from the renowned former avant-pop saxophonist Norman Salant, who is also probably the best songwriter you never heard of. There's so much music on this album that it's hard to get your head around, it's almost an amusement park of sounds and styles. The album also serves as a companion to the previous release, Yodeling Goodbye. The songs explore similar themes, but this time around the emphasis is less on life and death and more on the world we live in and the various states and perceptions of it.

Message from Norman Salant:
"I started as an electronic saxophonist, which I did for 20 years. I had two groundbreaking albums in the early 1980s of experimental sax-pop that had a huge impact and were very popular. I used the studio to the utmost, layering dozens of saxophones and enhancing them all electronically. We performed as a new wave band fronted by saxophones with no singers. There was press, radio play, all the usual stuff. Then the projects became increasingly noncommercial. Later switched direction, a complete 180 to songwriting. The verbal, personal, poetic aspect, it really just resonated, putting words with the music. Everything I know, everything I hope for, goes into every song."

Contains tracks

• At The End Of The World by Norman Salant
• The World's Greatest Lover by Norman Salant
• Feels Like Rain by Norman Salant
• Grace (Love Song 25) by Norman Salant
• Mr War (Love Song 49) by Norman Salant