This
week I made a rare order from Vibrashop.com to get the
latest CD from ex-Rhonda Harris member Lise
Westzynthius (she appeared on The
Trouble With... in 2001) and decided to pick up the
Rhonda
Harris Remastered disc from 2001 as well.
A little bit about the bulk
of this record can be found at the description for week
12's MP3, so I will focus on the bonus tracks and
remastering.
Side by side the remastered
tracks sound remarkably better and brighter in places
where the original album got a bit murky and for that
alone the CD is worth the reinvestment. Also included
are four bonus tracks (including a cover of a Roky
Erickson's "You Don't Love Me Yet") that
fit in fairly well, and as bonus tracks are nice additions,
but not essential.
What was interesting was
that several minutes after the last song ended, a demo
(?) of Air Miami's "Sweet Little Heartbreaker"
bursts out for just over a minute.

Mark Robinson (from liner notes)
Mark Robinson of Air Miami
was in Copenhagen, Denmark recording the Rhonda Harris
album and would have been selecting songs for Air Miami's
Me.Me.Me.
(Teenbeat 177/ 4AD) debut that would be recorded about
three months later.
This is a different demo
than appears on the Air Miami cassettes and I can only
guess that this demo was recorded either at Mynstersvej
on 4-track or at Sun Studio along with the rest of the
album. My guess would be with the studio. After all Mark
co-produced and mixed the album.
Though I'm not sure of Nikolaj
Nørlund's (RH's frontman) involvement, but
it is likely that Piet
Brienholm Bendtsen (ex-18th Dye, Test) was the drummer
on this track.
If there was one track, there
is a good chance that a few more demos were recorded in
Denmark, with any luck, should the Air Miami disc ever
get a reissue I hope for a double disc treatment with
demos o' plenty much like this one.
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