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William D. Drake and Onomatopoeia Records proudly announce the release of their current long-playing disc, The Rising Of The Lights.
The airwaves have been flooded with the meanderings of Mr Drake’s pained idea through the jockeyship of Messrs Riley and Coe. The aforesaid have genial invited the disturbed to act conferences which you tin immediately reiterate by your leisure!
Please combine the Newsletter for up-to-date newspaper approximately Mr Drake’s live representations and his numerous Recordings.
The album’s caption is taken from a weird occasion of decease which plagued London during the 18th and 19th centuries. Drake discovered the malady in a Victorian remedial daily somewhere amid Venice’s labyrinth of canals meantime on an Italian tour. “I liked the sound of the words: it stuck with me”. This said,
airforce ones, The Rising of the Lights is a go at the quite tip of health. Whether it be the archaic grind of James Larcombe’s hurdy gurdy, rediscovered gems from The Sea Nymphs project, alternatively the curious fixation on ailment, a spice of age period pervades the new compositions. But this record could not get busy a another artist, nor be built at a another period. To quote ‘Ornamental Hermit’, titled from the long-forgotten abnormal English practice of millionaire families keeping one retired, grey-bearded hermit among their grounds, The Rising of the Lights namely ‘overflowing with delight and with pain’.
The Rising of the Lights
Bill will be at his piano to play stuff manner Yews Paw ahead NRSO take to the stage this Friday at St Giles in the Fields
Now go ashore,
dunks high, obtain on with it.
BBC 6 SESSIONS for Marc Riley and Gideon Coe