HIS MOTHER WAS A WOMAN

FOR TRULY HE IS THE SON OF GARD

Lo, it will soon come to pass that a further instance of tune-smithery will be arriving in the Radiant Future despatch bay. When not planning to subvert democracy and destroy our way of life, our saintly (but foreign) employees are literally girding their loins in anticipation of the tsunami of impending orders.

JUMBLE

On September 17th 2025, Martin Gordon’s latest song cycle ‘His Mother Was a Woman’ will be 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.

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.

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

In this gala production of His Work and Wise Words, 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 aisles 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 will be 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.

HIS MOTHER’S AVAILABILITY

The CD will also 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.

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.

Watch for videos over the upcoming weeks.

HIS MOTHER WAS A WOMAN – A SYNOPSIS

The curtain rises on the MYSTERIOUS GOLDEN TRANSFORMATION!

Marvel at the impossible! Witness base materials transformed into precious gold through the mystical process of Chrysopoeia! Our resident musical magicians employ secrets known only to the ancient masters, producing wonders that defy rational explanation!

There follows a magical CONVERSION of SIMPLEMINDEDNESS into COMPLEXITY!

View with astonishment the astounding spectacle as the Insane Philosopher-King’s diminutive assistants labour tirelessly at their curious contraptions! These marvellous automata transform His simplistic but profound utterances into musical compositions of unprecedented complexity through the ancient art of Phonological and Metrical Transmutation!

We expose the awful POWER of POETRY!

Behold His philosophical and poetical pronouncements as they are rendered into melodious verse by a corps of trained scribes, working in perfect synchronisation with their patented Steam-Powered Composition Engine! Watch in amazement as mathematical formulae dance across the apparatus, converting abstract wisdom into tangible entertainment for the edification of all present!

Finally the evening ends with the TRAGIC DÉNOUEMENT!

We do not know the meaning of this foreign word and are not responsible for its inclusion here. Probably it is a term favoured by homosexualists.

TRACK LIST/SCENE-BY-SCENE

His Mother Was a Woman

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

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Pre-order now to ensure a copy of this limited edition:

Release date: September 17th 2025
Title: His Mother Was a Woman
Label: Radiant Future Records RF040CD
Press contact: marco@radiantfuture.eu