Alison Cotton -Portrait You Painted Of Me - Vinyl Maxi Grooves.land/Playthek

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1. MURMURATIONS OVER THE MOOR
2. THE LAST WOODEN SHIP
3. I BURIED THE CANDLESTICKS
4. THAT TUNNEL UNDERGROUND SEEMED NEVERENDING
5. VIOLET MAY
6. 17TH NOVEMBER 1962

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Alison Cotton presents The Portrait You Painted of Me, a new 6-track album â?? her first for Rocket Recordings (released on Feeding Tube in the USA). Like Alisonâ??s previous solo albums, the touchstones of her immersive sound are viola, harmonium and voice, merged together to create a rich suite of songs.â??Mumurations Over the Moorâ?? is a wordless piece of layered vocals, drifting like fog towards a sunset over the green undulations of North East England (from where she hails). â??The Last Wooden Shipâ?? evokes the shipyards of Sunderland using droning harmonium and viola lines, laced with piano and percussion events, while her voice calls out like one of Tim Buckleyâ??s Sirens urging listeners to a rocky demise. â??I Buried the Candlesticksâ?? has a haunted, traditional feel with its dolorously folky viola melody laid across a thick carpet harmonium, and small bursts of percussion that sound like cannonade heard through the thick cold walls of a castle in winter. â??That Tunnel Underground Seemed Neverendingâ?? is a musical vision of Northumberlandâ??s mining culture at the dawn of the 20th Century - labyrinthine, subterranean, dimmer than night. â??Violet Mayâ??, the only traditional â??songâ? on the album, was inspired by a trip to Vita Sackville-Westâ??s Sissinghurst Castle. Its plot deals with a reclusive artist who has forsaken all else for a life of solitary creation in her tower. The structure and sound reminiscent of a post-modern approach to lyrical concerns dealt with by folk singers of the British â??60s, but the actual arrangement is closer to something John Cale might have done with Nico on The Marble Index. The closing track, â??17th November 1962â??, inspired by nearly-forgotten memories of disaster with a fishing boat, a storm and an ill-fated rescue attempt. The song (and album) ends with what sounds like a forlorn foghorn cutting across waves of night with Alisonâ??s voice again evoking the Sirens.As with its predecessors, The Portrait You Painted of Me was recorded at home in London, beautifully produced by Alisonâ??s partner, Mark Nicholas, and it contains all the elements that result in the sombre, exquisite melancholy she creates. This is some serious and remarkable stuff. - .. YOU PAINTED OF ME / ORANGE VINYL

Vinyl LP pressing. Here we have the third solo LP by London's Alison Cotton, following on previous successes, All Quiet at the Ancient Theatre and Only Darkness Now. And as with each of Cotton's projects it is a stylistic advance as well as another example of her dark signature sound. Alison's work with bands is well documented by recordings with Saloon, 18th Day of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, and her current, ecstatic folk/psych duo, The Left Outsides. But her solo recordings always seem a bit more experimental in terms of song structure and musical texture, as the six tracks on The Portrait You Painted of Me clearly demonstrate. The touchstones of her sound are viola, harmonium and voice, but these are merged together in all sorts of different ways, creating a rich and thoroughly artastic suite of songs.

Edition of 400 on orange vinyl. C+P Rocket Recordings / Feeding Tube 2022 Published by Copyright Control Includes a download card and full-size credits insert.

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769791980013

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