THE GREAT PARK 'GOOD AND GONE' (WR043)

LATEST COLLECTION OF 9 SONGS ON CD, CASSETTE AND DOWNLOAD

CD SOLD OUT - PERHAPS MORE SOON

CASSETTE SOLD OUT

DOWNLOAD FOR €5 AT BANDCAMP HERE

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'Good and Gone' is the latest release from the prolific English songwriter Stephen Burch - at the last count this is his 13th full length album on Woodland Recordings.

Written and recorded in July 2012 in Berlin and Nürnberg, the album is a collection of songs regarding scenes of drama and trouble on roads, in houses, under trees. Narratives are sketched out and hinted at - there are spaces in stories to fill and make sense of. It begins with a journey stalled before it's even started but ends with the suggestion of triumphant escape - the album a pause of songs on the way.

The tone is more rhythmic here - drums scuttle about behind electric and acoustic guitars and motifs are looped - whilst the cello and violin of Volker Hormann and Dea Szücs improvise lines that seem to support and question the melodies in equal measure. Some songs are slabs of sound - dense and heavy - another is a clumsy sketch recorded on a phone at a kitchen table.

01. BAD ROADS AHEAD 05:19
02. HOLD THE FORT 04:10
03. STONES 07:06
04. COUGH IT UP 04:13
05. KITCHEN SONG 02:20
06. MARY AND TOM 06:46
07. REARRANGING 04:31
08. LEAVING 03:24
09. GOOD AND GONE 04:19

CD with colour photo, lyric sheet, hand stamped sleeves, hand stamped CD.

Cassette is limited to just 50 copies - each in a hand stamped card sleeve with lyric sheet. All include a code to download the complete album in uncompressed audio at Bandcamp.

REDEEM CASSETTE DOWNLOAD CODES HERE:
http://thegreatpark.bandcamp.com/yum

All Bandcamp downloads include the full length instrumental version of 'Bad Roads Ahead' as an extra track and the short teaser video for the album.

THE GREAT PARK WEBSITE

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