DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES is the new album by Jowe Head and the Demi Monde. It was released on Topplers Records in May 2010 as a very limited edition digipack CD.

Jowe Head is an artist and a musician from the Midlands of England, now living in east London. Moving from his home town of Solihull, he started his Fine Art training in Manchester in 1976. At the same time he was beginning his musical career with various school-friends, a project that came to be known as Swell Maps. This group emerged in the late 1970s, and are now seen as legendary pioneers of what is now referred to as the "Alternative rock" scene; they set up their own record label and mixed punk rock with experimental psychedelic sounds. Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but dramatic career that saw them topping the UK independent charts. When they broke up, Jowe joined Television Personalities who he met as label-mates at Rough Trade Records. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe touring with them around Europe regularly, and travelling to Japan and the USA.
Jowe continues to make vital, challenging music and has recently played in New York and Germany. He is backed by a new band called The Demi-Monde for an ambitious new album called "Diabolical Liberties" released on micro independent label Topplers. The sound is psychedelic, using electronic and acoustic instruments, with a european folk influence plus indian and moorish elements.
For a complete Jowe Head discography, visit: televisionpersonalities.co.uk/jowe.htm

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DIABOLICAL LIBERTIES by JOWE HEAD & the Demi Monde

Jowe Head: singing, guitars, bass, bulbul-tarang, autoharp, glockenspiel, zither, theremin, melodica, toy piano, sundry percussion
Catherine Gerbrands: vocals, autoharp, synthesiser
Jane Ruby: vocals, castanets
Lee McFadden: vocals, electric guitar
John-Paul Holt III: electric guitar
Heath Stanley: electric/slide guitar
Phillip Martin: violin
Sarah Anderson: violin
Chloe Herrington: alto sax, bassoon, recorder
Emma Sullivan: trumpet
Kate Newell: cor anglais, oboe, flute, effects, vocals
Ed Bones: trombone
Michael Frangou: drums
Eldad Guetta: synthesiser, programming, electric guitar, bass guitar, trumpet
Jo Roberts: vocals
Trevor Davies: drums
Philip Boa: vocals and synthesiser