'bottle the grief and exile songs' physical edition now available
Over three evenings at the start of the lockdown in the back room of the L.A.Signorina pizzeria in Stuttgart, 'bottle the grief' was recorded and then quickly released as a digital download and subscription only physical edition in very limited numbers. At the time print shops were closed and it felt difficult to put together a full CD release. Now, a couple of months later and as some restrictions have been lifted, I’m making it available (with a companion set 'exile songs') as a double disc edition.
'bottle the grief' consists of nine new songs written in march, whilst 'exile songs' are older songs played during the same three evening sessions. It was an uncertain time and in the quiet, dark room (whilst the pizzeria was still closed) the songs came out slow and sparse. Chairs on tables, reservation phone set to silent and a deserted square outside.
The digital edition (on my site here and on Bandcamp here) includes a pdf of the lyrics and chords to all songs, whilst the physical edition consists of
• Two hand stamped CD-r's
• Full lyric sheet
• A playing card from the pizzeria
• Clipping from a book of photographs of busy Italian cafés by Walter Vogel, recalling a different time of social and working life.
• First edition of 100 numbered copies.
• €15 including full quality digital download and postage anywhere.
Full tracklist:
from the willows by the weir
slow go the dark days
the mistake was to make a character of the wild
miller
a carrion call
the week between the years
fold culinary
the rope
boys, i am worried
the leaving, or what’s left of it
make a dead one of it
trouble
440
super good advice
it don’t stop the bleeding
the royal canal
the hills are alive