Independent label SimG Records is to release MY LAND’S SHORE on the 6th February 2012. This passionate new musical for Wales is a tale of conflict, social injustice, moral dilemmas, guilt, love and heartbreak, with music & lyrics by Christopher J Orton and book & lyrics by Robert Gould.

MY LAND’S SHORE has been recorded by a cast of young West End stars lead by Jonathan Williams (LES MISÉRABLES), with Killian Donnelly (PHANTOM), Kelly-Anne Gower (BLOOD BROTHERS), Andy Hockley (PHANTOM), Alexis James (WAR OF THE WORLDS), Sarah Lark (OLIVER!), Kit Orton (SPAMALOT), Rhiannon Sarah Porter (LES MISÉRALBES) and Gareth Richards (THORN BIRDS).

Some West End musical theatre professionals have offered their opinion about this new musical. The director and choreographer Craig Revel Horwood has told “I was involved in staging a Concert Production of ‘My Land’s Shore’ back in 2007. I was drawn in by its powerful story and its beautiful, soaring score...a Welsh LES MIS!”.

The Olivier winning writing team George Stiles Anthony Drewe have said: “Orton & Gould have written a soaring, passionate and hauntingly melodic score for a story which, though set in 1831, has a resonance and relevance in today´s Eurozone era, when so many countries are vying to retain a sense of their own identity and individuality. In this musical from Wales, the land of song, it is great to witness two emerging songwriters with the drive to see their project through to fruition.”

And the West End actress Caroline Sheen, who currently performs Fantine in LES MIS, has told: “It´s about time there was a musical set in Wales! This has grit, panache, melody and a big future. A musical for Wales and hopefully the world!”

SimG Records is fast determining itself as the leading record label that supports rising theatre artists and musical writers in the UK; having released the critically acclaimed debut albums from West End performers Annalene Beechey, Stuart Matthew Price, and the Helen Hayes award winning Caroline Sheen, to London Cast Recordings of ‘STAND TALL’ and ‘BEYOND THE GATE’, plus ‘Acoustic Overtures’ the songs of award-winning Dougal Irvine, and more recently the Live Concert Recording of Stiles & Drewe’s ‘SOHO CINDERS’.

This is the complete tracklist of MY LAND’S SHORE:

1. Burning - Killian Donnelly, Alexis James, Jonathan Williams, Gareth Richards, Kit Orton & Ensemble
2. The Way Things Are - Rhiannon Sarah Porter
3. Still Even Now - Kelly-Anne Gower
4. Make Wales Proud - Gareth Richards, Jonathan Williams & Ensemble
5. I Promise - Kit Orton
6. Love On The Edge Of Our Tears - Rhiannon Sarah Porter & Jonathan Williams
7. Play With War - Alexis James
8. The War Machines - Alexis James
9. I Know I Love Him - Kelly-Anne Gower, Sarah Lark & Rhiannon Sarah Porter
10. The Trial - Andy Hockley, Jonathan Williams, Alexis James & Ensemble
11. My Land´s Shore - Jonathan Williams
12. I Don´t Know What To Tell You - Kit Orton & Kelly-Anne Gower
13. Who Is There To Blame But Me? - Jonathan Williams & Alexis James
14. The Honesty Of Love - Gareth Richards & Sarah Lark
15. The Gallows / This Is It - Alexis James & Jonathan Williams
16. Finale - Killian Donnelly, Sarah Lark, Kit Orton, Rhiannon Sarah Porter & Ensemble