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01. "Strange Attractor" 02. "Undone. Again." 03. "Wait" 04. "Alive" 05. "Gathering The Pieces" 06. "Avalon" 07. "Days" 08. "Road Song" 09. "We See You (Taking Aim)" 10. "Prog Rock Arp (I Know)"
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Description: | Troubadour of broken hearts Robin Proper-Sheppard is back with a brand new Sophia album. ??Holding On / Letting Go? is the follow up to ??As We Make Our Way (Unknow Harbours)? (2016) and was written, recorded and produced by Robin in Berlin and Wales. As on the previous album Robin enlisted his young troupe of Belgian musicians to play on the album. Sander Vestraete (bass) and Jesse Maes (guitar) from noise-punk outfit Hyposchristmasstreefuzz and Bert Vliegen (keys) from indie-guitar trio Teen Creeps join longtime collaborator Jeff Townsin (drums). ??Alive??, the first track that was released from the new album, features the legendary musician Terry Edwards on saxophone (Nick Cave, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey) and is without a doubt Sophia??s most sensual and brooding song to date. It??s a tense, beautiful, smooth and gripping track, again showcasing Proper-Sheppard??s unique way of writing songs that pull on every heart string.
??We See You Taking Aim?? is Sophia??s most noisily brash spit-and-grit track yet. ??I don??t generally ??do politics? but if I did this is what it would sound like? fourteen guitars and the nastiest most distorted bass I??ve ever recorded. Audio destruction brought to you by Black Arts Toneworks and Death By Audio.? The album artwork by John Hobbs is this gorgeous interpretation of the original chart devised by the Bauhaus school's music teacher Gertrud Grunow and her visualisation of the correlation between colour and sound. - ? & 2020 The Flower Shop Recordings
Made in the EU.
Recorded at Giant Wafer Studios, Llandrindod Wells and The Flower Shop Recordings, Berlin
Mixed at Alchemy Studio, London
Mastered at Equus Audio Mastering, Brussels
Published by 400BC Songs
Catalog numbers:
FLOWLP036: on spine and back sleeve
FLOWLPLTD036: on center labels
Track B5 misprinted as "Prog Rock Arop (I Know)" on outer sleeve.
Issued with a printed inner sleeve containing lyrics. |
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Manufacturer No.: |
00140125 |
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375 Media GmbH Schlachthofstrae 36A, 21079 Hamburg, DE https://375media.com |
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