FOR TRULY HE IS THE SON OF GARD
Lo, it has come to pass that a further instance of tune-smithery has arrived in the Radiant Future despatch bay. When not planning to subvert democracy and destroy our way of life, our foreign (but saintly) employees are literally girding their loins in anticipation of the tsunami of impending orders.
SHE WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND
In September 2025, Martin Gordon’s latest song cycle ‘His Mother Was a Woman’ was released, it being a riotous musical romp through some of the most significant semantic jumble of the Twenty-Twenties, thanks in no small measure to the Insane Philosopher-King referred to in the album title.
PRE-SALES
About half of the limited edition of CDs are now spoken for (details below). Copies are available!
SEGUE HEIL
Given the massive pressures on our time (not to mention our money, patience and sanity), each of the 24 tracks says what it has to say and then, in a series of elaborately constructed segues, makes way for the next. For that reason, ‘His Mother’ can either be listened to as one continuous piece of aural icing sitting atop the delicious disaster-flavoured cake on which we are eagerly snacking, or it can be broken down into bite-size snippets for later consumption, allowing you to get on with watching AI-generated interviews with dead people and cute cats. Not interviews with cute cats, of course, that would be ridiculous and also take up far too much time.
NESTING VULTURES
Who was His Mother? She was a stern matriarch with a towering beehive hairdo, from which nesting vultures peered out and scoured the horizons for likely prey, who were usually people with more money than sense, eager to ascend the slippery rungs of the social ladder and with an overwhelming love of all things gold. Her offspring was similarly infected with a pervasive affection for free money. Having nailed His colours to the matriarchal mast, He proceeded to dismantle western civilisation (if one can use such a term) and began to spray His incomprehensible word salad over all who happened to be within spitting distance.
IMPREGNATED
His Mother is presented as a gala, music-hall production of His Work and Wise Words. At Radiant Future, we cleave strongly to the highest music-hall production values – only the finest maroon velour curtains are used, tied back by the most gleaming, gold-impregnated (but not literally) ropes used anywhere by anyone ever in the history of the world or anywhere else. Greek choruses, all armed with valid work permits, repeat His selected Words of Wisdom to ensure that His subjects receive maximum value from their investments if (a) it’s a Tuesday and (b) there’s an M in the month.
CHILLING OUT
During this evening’s performance, heavily-armed members of the Matriarchal Thought Police will roam the theatre on the lookout for anyone who may disrupt the entertainment, primed to eject them at the first sign of dissent whether actual or potential, and regardless of their professed affection for Gilbert and/or Sullivan.
RELEASE INFO
A limited number of the ‘His Mother Was a Woman’ CD is now available from Radiant Future. All copies come in a lavish six-panel heavy cardboard package and all direct orders will include one (count them!) double-sided full colour lyric sheet and one (we are up to two so far) lavish full-colour sticker featuring the album artwork and some hidden messages if you don’t look at it directly but only out of the corner of your eye and are especially credulous. That’s three things all told, or 27 including all the tracks.
The musical form is strictly determined by the transcript of a recent Insane Philosopher-King interview, in which he surpassed his own, hard-to-compete-with benchmark. No editing of the selections was allowed. The process was detailed, for those who care about such things, at the xCOAx conference at Abertay University, Dundee, in 2025, and was published in the proceedings. Dundee, of course, is in Scotland. Did you know? His Mother was born in Scotland. Is that merely a coincidence? Why did Sam sing? Shurely we should be told.
HIS MOTHER’S AVAILABILITY
The CD will be available via the usual on-line retailers. However, the accompanying freebies will be limited to the direct orders, for reasons of practicality, pecuniary necessity and the fact that the vast majority of the great music-loving public are terribly busy with other, more important things such as foreigners.
Downloads will be available via all those people who make such things available to download, well-known to most. As for streaming – well, what is there to say? It will be streamable.
MEDIA
These just in:
- Preview in Music Radar
- Preview in A Journal of Music Things
- A scientific background, if that’s what they call these things
- YouTube interview with Rock’n’Roll High School:
TRACK LIST/SCENE-BY-SCENE
His Mother Was a Woman
The curtains open. We see a nativity scene on the gold-trimmed stage. The story begins.
Scene 1. My Mother Was a Woman
Scene 2. The Big Ships Coming In
Scene 3. Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Containers
Scene 4. In One Case a King
Scene 5. Do You Want Horse Dovers or Anything
?
Scene 6. Knock Out the Middleman
Scene 7. Add Sports and Add Everything Else.
Scene 8. Comeback From What?
Scene 9. They Have Tents
Scene 10. When I Make Speeches
Scene 11. It’s Hard To Bring Things Down (Once They’re Up)
Scene 12. Upgraded (In an Airplane)
Scene 13. 72 Days of Fury
Scene 14. There’s a Light Shining Over the World
Scene 15. 129 Years
Scene 16. How Could I Answer a Question Like That?
Scene 17. Compared to Me You’re Very Young
Scene 18. People That Are Unnecessary To Do
Scene 19. Most Lists
Scene 20. I Think It’s Probably Ever
Scene 21. It Was Irrelevant
Scene 22. We Said the Right Things
Scene 23. Dismissed From Their Institutions
Scene 24. Prison
Want more info? Here’s a synopsis!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Get a copy of this heavily-limited (in the sense of not many) edition:
Release date: September 17th 2025
Title: His Mother Was a Woman
Label: Radiant Future Records RF040CD
Press contact: marco@radiantfuture.eu