Vinyl version of the Domestic album. (please note that this is not the deluxe box with prints this is available only from paularmfield.com or from concerts)
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Contained within a matt black cardboard box are square cards with reproductions of Paul's original linocuts with lyrics on the reverse, as well as the CD. Signed, numbered limited edition of 1000 copies
Includes unlimited streaming of Domestic
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about
Originally written as an attempt to write a cold weather bossanova. Bossanovas are from Brazil and the lyrics always seem to reflect this, it's always a sunny day or a balmy night on the beach, but the warming sounds also seem to me to be perfect for winter evenings by the fire. So this is a cosy and, let's face it, fairly self-satisfied, musing on being at home. It also acknowledges the many ingredients that go into making a house a home, and slowly the other songs on the album started revealing themselves to pivot around the concept of 'home' also. It was interesting discussing this with the other musicians that in French and Italian there is no word for 'home'
lyrics
With mortar, bricks and sticks
With elbow-grease and wit
With common-sense, affection and occasionally force
The love that we have poured
Spills out all over these four walls
The house that has become our home
With charity, panache
Perhaps just a healthy dose of slap-dash
The fixtures and the fittings have all fallen into place
In every piece of furniture
An indentation of our bones
In the house that has become our home
Occasionally on cold dark nights
I walk imaginary dogs
Around the houses in the neighbourhood
For hours and hours and hours
Imagining if I could just walk in on any life
The only door I'd open would be ours
Ours is a home where love has grown
Learned to read and stand alone
There's a corner for the tantrums and a chimney for the heat
A drainpipe for the tears that we have shed
For those who've flown
From the house that has become
After all is said and done
This is the house that has become our home
Ours is a home
Somewhere to call your own
Four walls, a door, a roof and you
credits
from Domestic,
released September 4, 2020
Paul Armfield: vocals, electric guitar
Giulio Cantore: classical guitar, cavaquinho
Max Braun: drumbeat programming, bass guitar
Johann Polzer: congas
Gabriel Schütz: drums
Written by Paul Armfield
Produced by Max Braun
Recorded at Areal 51, Stuttgart
Mastered by Gabriel Schütz
Linocuts by Paul Armfield
John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP. yellowcakeuf6
There's a similarity in song writing between Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell which maybe isn't surprising as they went to the same school at the same time, although Thompson is older.
Due to Thompson's association with John French of Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band I searched for his work on the Bandcamp app. French, Thompson and Cornwell all have albums on the app which I'm very pleased about. Only Thompson has released contemporary albums, much to his credit. yellowcakeuf6
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This is album of the year 2021 for me. distant planet