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)
Includes unlimited streaming of Domestic
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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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edition of 1000
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about
Inspired by so many stories of so many hopeful and desperate immigrants risking so much to get here, but for what? And why? At a time when things were looking so grim here and I was having my own dreams of migration. A song that counters the promise of the new with a world weary resignation that nothing really changes. The optimism of a New Year, a new voyage of discovery, all destined for disappointment. There are no new stories, this years calendar will look just like the last. A pretty bleak outlook.
lyrics
January first
My new year's resolution is to learn the second verse of Auld Lang Syne
Broken by the third
In the time it takes to show the door to Old Father Time
Pushing off from old Lands End
Raise a toast to absent friends
Poised above the soil
The blade, the spade, the good-intentioned resolutions fall
To be jolted, jounced and jarred
As the frozen earth's resistance sees you gather up the seeds
Head back indoors
Just off the coast of Finisterre
Setting sail for who knows where
Clothes damp with the melting snow
Dream your dreams of Capistrano
Stoke the stove and plump the sofa
Follow where the swallows go
January blows in cold
Wind chill makes it even colder
Through the hollows of your bones
Chills the blood and turns the soul to ice
The colours drain out of the day
And all that interrupts the grey
Are January blues
The blank space on the wall
As from calendar to calendar we carbon-copy all
Just to find ourselves once more
In the flyleaves and the end-papers of every book we've ever read before
Hoisting sails hand over hand
Set a course for Newfoundland
For the sake of auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
credits
from Domestic,
released September 4, 2020
Paul Armfield: vocals, acoustic guitar
Giulio Cantore: weissenborn guitar
Max Braun: electric & bass guitars
Johann Polzer: 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
Nice pop balladry with a folk influence. My first thought upon hearing this was "female Paul McCartney" but it is probably aiming for Sandy Denny territory. Lavinia was in psychedelic folk band Trembling Bells. Art Fin
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The haunting new record from Canadian folk artist Avi C. Engel bridges old and new traditions with a minimalist approach. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 24, 2024
Psych-folk with a late 60s / early 70s flavour. If you like Nick Drake or Fairport Convention you will enjoy this. It's an observation of change and a celebration of a hazy, high summer harvest. The music transports you to the moorlands and mill towns of Northern England. Dark and open and embellished with beautiful melodies and thoughtful lyrics.
This is album of the year 2021 for me. distant planet