Warner Music UK

After a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his generation's defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length solo album, Honora, on Nonesuch Records. <br/>Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves: jazz and playing the trumpet.<br/> <br/>For Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member, Flea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. <br/>The album comprises six original songs-including one co-written by Flea, Johnson, and Yorke-as well as interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell.

After a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his generation's defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length solo album, Honora, on Nonesuch Records. <br/>Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves: jazz and playing the trumpet.<br/> <br/>For Honora, which takes its name from a beloved family member, Flea composed and arranged the music, and also plays trumpet and bass throughout, joined by an elite crew of modern jazz visionaries: album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks. The record features vocals from Flea, as well as friends Thom Yorke and Nick Cave. Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Atoms for Peace) and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes), among others, also join the band. <br/>The album comprises six original songs-including one co-written by Flea, Johnson, and Yorke-as well as interpretations of tunes by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell.

Celebrate four decades of an iconic album with this definitive 40th anniversary reissue of The Pogues' seminal "Rum Sodomy & The Lash," released on 2CD featuring the original album plus a second disc of bonus material, much of it unavailable physically including bonus B Sides, The Poguetry In Motion EP, The BBC Radio 1 Janice Long sessions from 1985, plus tracks taken from the band's show at Glasgow Barrowland in 1987.