We are pleased to announce that the touching, melodic and shiver inducing new single ‘Karen’ from ‘The Ejector Seats’ with Trevor John Heath and Rebecca Murduck, is now on London FM Digital’s prestigious A-List Playlist. Listen out for it night and day on the playlist + it will also be played daily as a special BALLAD POWERPLAY at 8:30 PM GMT time for the next month.
Back in 2009, The Ejector Seats had released their debut album, ‘Take Off.’ Since then, it had been assumed the group members had been lost at sea. Fortunately, they have partially regrouped to record a track as a tribute to Karen Carpenter, which was originally destined for a second album.
‘Karen’ is a heartfelt song recorded to remember the joy and melancholy of The Carpenters, in the style of a Carpenters song. It is a lament for the loss of Karen, who succumbed to the terrible condition Anorexia Nervosa, little understood at the time (1983). She died at the tragically young age of 32.
Rebecca Murduck (Bex) is on vocals, and Trevor John Heath, who wrote the song, performs guitars and keyboards. Trevor brought in two extra musicians to assist, Jonathan Fashole-Luke on piano, and Ed Jordan on drums. Recorded by Lou Sawdy at Ranch Production House studios in Southampton, the overall effect is pulling the 70s into the 2020s – it’s yesterday, once more.
Trevor takes up the story: ‘Dale, the original Ejector Seats keyboard player, and I recorded a demo for Karen in 2009. It sounded great in demo form, but we never recorded any vocals. The song was nagging me for years – I felt it really needed to be heard, and I was sure Bex would bring a real KC touch to it. Because her voice has really matured now, it undoubtedly sounds better now than it would if we had finished it back then. It’s a wonderful performance.’
Richard Carpenter is touring the UK later this year. Trevor is attending one of his shows and hopes the legend will get to hear the song.
‘We all (in the band) love The Carpenters, and those songs are timeless. Although digital technology was used on the song, the approach was to make it sound like the era, so no synth sounds to ‘date’ it. I think this makes it quite different to what you hear on the radio today.’
It almost makes you want to sing, ‘Shoobeedoo lang lang ‘all over again.
