Track listing:
1. Miss Manning Requests (04:45)
2. Moral Vulture (03:55)
3. Chemical Change (04:12)
4. Unavoidable Delays, Part 1 (03:50)
5. Squire Gillingham's Jig (04:12)
6. Slightly Longer Tune (01:27)
7. Gonna (06:22)
8. New Nothynge (04:47)
9. Long Distance Calls (05:00)
10. Magdalen Bridge Hangover (08:21)
11. The Sea Remembers Nothing (01:28)
Making predictions is almost always a bad idea. As a result, I've been rather airily saying "Yeah, I'm working on some new recordings" for about 17 years now. And here they are; only a little delayed.
The tunes on The Wind Horse were from quite a discrete phase of my life, written over 4 - 5 years and recorded over a (for me) short period of nine months. These tracks, by contrast, cover almost 17 years; some were recorded by Mark Atkins in 1995/6 during the same sessions as The Wind Horse, others I have done myself in the intervening years. Those were years that saw a lot of major realignments, the loss of both parents, changes of jobs, a lot of travelling, and 5 or 6 years when I scarcely played the guitar at all, followed by the realisation that it's one of the most important things in my life, and I can't not play it.
It's inevitable, therefore, that the tracks are rather more disparate. Some are rather raggedly-recorded, too. But proud I am of all of them, in one way or another, representing as they do an historical record of ideas and events.
This is a CD; to buy the album as an MP3 download, go here.
To buy individual tracks as downloads, visit my Bandcamp site.
For more information on the tracks and the album, see my main guitar site.
CD first released November 2013.
Credits
Guitar, vocals: Robin Somes
Recorded, mixed & remixed by Mark G. Atkins (Gonna, New Nothynge, Long Distance Calls) / Robin Somes (other tracks).
© Robin Somes, all rights reserved
