Mayfield was a band I formed after moving to New York to be with Frances and to escape the UK music business. It was a couple of years into my hiatus from Tears For Fears and the premise was to not use my name (hence Mayfield) and just try to rediscover the joys of music through playing live. We regularly played at downtown New York clubs like Brownie’s, Mercury Lounge and CBGB’s, in fact the only criteria was that the club had to be within walking distance of my apartment on Mercer and Houston. The “Mayfield Walking Tour” was born!

These were probably a couple of the most enjoyable years I’ve spent as a musician: no pressure and just doing it for the love of music. These songs were ostensibly recorded live, that is with the band playing together with overdubbing and editing used only to polish a few things. We recorded them over a period of three weeks, and whilst I may question the quality of some of the recording and mixing in retrospect, I still can feel the passion intended today.

I have decided to reissue this CD for two reasons:
1. People have asked me to.
2. The original distribution company is no longer in existence. So you can rest assured that if you buy the original CD, not one cent of what you pay for it will come to me. For this reason, I’ve updated the artwork a little so that everyone can differentiate.

Last, a very special thanks to Janice Whaley for the rerecorded, rearranged bonus version of Trees.
If you get a chance visit thesmithsproject.blogspot.com, or follow Janice on Twitter @janicewhaley.

PS. To those wondering about the name: Curt-is-Mayfield (geddit?)



Mayfield

Gone Again

Sun King

I Don't Want To Be Around

Snow Hill

Mother England

Reach Out

Jasmine's Taste

Sorry Town

What Are We Fighting For

Trees (featuring Janice Whaley)

I'm a singer-songwriter-musician. (Yeah, I'm also half of Tears For Fears.) Thanks for giving my solo material a listen.

Mayfield

curtsmith