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Welcome to the "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited" page! Burning Sky Records has just released the 45-track (not counting any hidden tracks ;) ), 3-CD album "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited." You can order your copy from us NOW! Or, you can order the album and the EP for just $2 more - that's 50 great covers of Posies tracks!

Or, if you prefer - ALL of the "Beautiful Escape" tracks are now available on iTunes - you can download as many as you want there.

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Burning Sky Records signs licensing deal with DMX, Inc.
DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania - Burning Sky Records, LLC is pleased to announce that we have signed a blanket licensing deal with DMX, Inc. to license our catalogue for airplay in DMX’s clients’ stores, restaurants, hotels, and other facilities. DMX is an international leader in multi-sensory branding, and they have been creating brand experiences for commercial environments since 1971. They have a very impressive client list, including Abercrombie & Fitch, DKNY, Burberry, Saks Fifth Avenue, Pottery Barn, Olive Garden, and Starwood Hotels.

“Burning Sky Records is honored and pleased to partner with DMX, Inc. and to have the opportunity to bring our large and growing catalogue of killer covers of classic songs to a broader audience,” said Alan Heaton, founder of Burning Sky Records, LLC. “We are also excited to give the wonderful artists who appear on our records the enhanced exposure that their great talent merits.”

About Burning Sky Records, LLC Burning Sky Records is an independent record label based in Doylestown, PA. Founded in 2006 by Alan Heaton with Seattle-based producer and mastering engineer Steve Turnidge, Burning Sky Records creates and releases tribute albums – albums revisiting the songs of deserving bands. Burning Sky Records’ releases include: Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish, Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited (named Top Tribute Album of 2008 by International Pop Overthrow), and Take Refuge In Pleasure: The Songs of Roxy Music Revisited.

Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow weigh in on "Beautiful Escape"!

Founding Posies member JON AUER has this to say about Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited:

“I’ll have to own up to being suspect when I first heard the concept of forty-five different artists recording new versions of Posies songs. I guess at my core I feared polite, cursory renditions of our relatively ‘best known’, the proverbial ‘skating on the surface’ as they say in the vernacular or at the very least folks just ‘phoning it in’. Still, as skeptical as I might like to portray myself, and after lending my ears to the procession, I couldn’t deny the ultimate conclusion I arrived at: a lot of Beautiful Escape… truly manages to surprise me and I’m really touched that it does. At its best, if you will, I’d liken it to diving headfirst into a sonic mirror from a slightly alternate universe, a place where clusters of tone, choices of instrument, and phrasings of word are reinvented enough to render me able to enjoy something I originally created as if never considered possible in the first place. Wow. In a similar sense, perhaps it’s like a stranger finding one of your old photo albums and restaging your favorite pictures in ways and with colors you might never have visualized. Colors that look and feel somewhat familiar, but upon closer inspection smell like a fresh coat of paint on a house you barely remember building. Double wow. Who would’ve ‘thunk’ it possible? Not me, I assure you. I suppose until now, that is.”

Founding Posies member KEN STRINGFELLOW adds:

“Though I don't think we're as important as the Velvets or Big Star, they say that everyone who heard those bands formed a band soon after--and thus, despite not achieving the high water mark in terms of sales, they profoundly influenced the course of popular music. Are the Posies the next band to join that list? Well, drop the word 'profoundly' and we're getting somewhere. So, in a sense, this collection is a nice cross section of the breadth and depth and global diversity of the people in whom we've struck a chord of inspiration. And it's true for all of us who make music, once you put something out there, you will be surprised how far it travels, and whose day it might make better. An inspiring thought, and I'm honored to contribute anytime to the inspiration to create.”

Ken Stringfellow on the “Beautiful Escape” EP Still thinking about it? Please check out what Posies founding member Ken Stringfellow had to say about the “Beautiful Escape …is Coming Right Along” EP on his web site:

“Listened to this week and can recommend…the EP preceeding the Posies tribute album—including Dominique’s version of ‘Will You Ever Ease Your Mind’ and Jim Protectors’ freak-take of ‘Coming Right Along’. I will register that I myself thought the artwork for the tribute was maybe too literal to the title, and could have been more Posie-ish, but, the tracks…wow! Every track on this EP is a novel, extremely well thought out and great sounding take on a Posies song, from ‘Dream All Day’ (by an LA band called the Meadows, but with 3 current or former Posies contributing) to ‘I Guess You’re Right’ (by some New Yorkers of some stripe). You can buy the EP for $7, so, same price as Itunes, and you get CD quality audio. One of the partners in making the Posies tribute is Steve Turnidge, who I have to say is an extremely talented mastering engineer, so the sonic quality of the tracks makes the physical disk worth having.”

We were very gratified to hear that Ken has been digging the EP! (We were also very pleased to read the props for Steve – he really does do amazing work!) You probably saw Jon’s great comments on the Album, and now you’ve seen Ken’s take on the EP If The Posies themselves are liking the “Beautiful Escape releases, don’t you think you will, too?

We hope that you will check out the “Beautiful Escape” releases – I think that you will be very happy that you did!

Cheers,
Alan and the Burning Sky Records “Beautiful Escape” Team

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Here is the track list for the 45-track, 3-CD Burning Sky Records Album, "Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited." The Album is available NOW!!!"

Disc 1 - The Red Disc
1. Dream All Day - The Meadows (US)
2. Flavor Of The Month - Maxi Dunn (UK)
3. I May Hate You Sometimes - The Drowners (Sweden)
4. Please Return It - Peter Searcy (US)
5. Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive - The Junior League (US)
6. Chainsmoking In The USA - The Sugarrush (Finland)
7. Throwaway - Throwback Suburbia (US)
8. Burn and Shine - Steven Wright-Mark (US)
9. At Least For Now - Don Mabus (US)
10. Song 1 - The Virtues (Sweden)
11. Start A Life - Joe Skyward and Brette Howard (US)
12. Blind Eyes Open - Panther Style (US)
13. Ontario - cosmopolitANTS (Spain)
14. You Avoid Parties - We Know, Plato! (US)
15. Coming Right Along - Megafauna (US)

Disc 2 - The Green Disc
1.) Golden Blunders - The Smith Bros. (US)
2.) Every Bitter Drop - The Royalz (UK)
3.) Will You Ever Ease Your Mind? - Flip Your Wig (Denmark)
4.) Somehow Everything - The Genuine Fakes (Sweden)
5.) Everybody Is A Fucking Liar - John Parry (US)
7.) Everyone Moves Away - The Well Wishers (US)
8.) The Longest Line - Slinkyredfoot (US)
9.) Going, Going, Gone - Super Ratones (Argentina)
10.) The Certainty - Alex Smee (UK)
11.) Under Easy - Frank Royster (US)
12.) No Consolation - Electroplex (Australia)
13.) 20 Questions - Cokeroque (Spain)
14.) When Mute Tongues Can Speak - Ian McGlynn (US)
15.) Flood Of Sunshine - Mike Dees (US)

Disc 3 - The Blue Disc
1.) Conversations - The Wellingtons (Australia)
2.) Definite Door - James Deem (US)
3.) Solar Sister - EVEN (Australia)
4.) Daily Mutilation - Jon Auer (US)
5.) Terrorized - The Shifter (The Netherlands)
6.) Fight It (If You Want) - Dinky Drums (Germany)
7.) I Guess You're Right - tiny Tendrils (US)
8.) Precious Moments - Darling Cait (US)
9.) Earlier Than Expected - The Pozers (US)
10.) Apology - Strange Fruits (Japan)
11.) Help Yourself - Every Damn Day (US)
12.) Paint Me - The Calculus Affair (US)
13.) Who To Blame - Luis Francesco Arena (France)
14.) Open Every Window - Greenlawn Abbey (US)
15.) You're The Beautiful One - Brian Pylant (US)
16.) Dream All Day (Hidden Track) - Jim Protector (Norway)

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Here is the track list for the Burning Sky Records EP, "Beautiful Escape...Is Coming Right Along: Precious Moments from the upcoming album. The EP is available NOW!!!"

1. Dream All Day - The Meadows
2. Solar Sister (EP-only track) - Cokeroque
3. Somehow Everything - The Genuine Fakes
4. I Guess You're Right (EP-only track) - David Shaw and The Round Trip
5. Precious Moments - Darling Cait
6. Coming Right Along (EP-only track) - Jim Protector
7. Will You Ever Ease Your Mind (EP-only track) - Doubleman with Dominique Stringfellow

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Here is the link to UK band The Royalz' "Every Bitter Drop" video on YouTube. This is the first video recorded in support of our Posies Tribute, and it rocks!

The Royalz' "Every Bitter Drop" video

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Feedback on “Beautiful Escape: The Songs of The Posies Revisited
Where do I start with this? Well, how about "It's incredible!" Burning Sky Records follows up last year’s wonderful Jellyfish tribute (“Sensory Lullabies: The Ultimate Tribute to Jellyfish” with a very risky 3-disc set with the music of The Posies. This is no easy task, since The Posies music is some of the most complex melodic masterpieces ever made in the pop world, but there are honestly 45 well-done tracks by artists that obviously love the band's music.

Highlights include (and there are 45 of them) The Drowners’ "I May Hate You Sometime", which is radio ready and shows this song still sounds as current as it did when it was first released in 1988. Other rockers fair well on the album, too; Every Damn Day rocks out "Help Yourself" fiercely, and you can sense the raw emotion Peter Searcy puts into "Please Return It".

The Well Wishers’ "Everyone Moves Away" flows with perfect harmonies that would make Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow proud. Arguably the standout track is "You Avoid Parties" - it is gorgeously done by We Know, Plato! The guitars are replaced with keys and the song is sung with simple, yet passionate vocals that show just what a beautiful escape The Posies music is.

The set also includes great tracks by 4 present and former members of the band, making this one of the most essential albums of 2008. I'm not sure how you top a tribute album like this, but if anybody can do it will be Burning Sky Records.
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