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Orphans of the Storm

by Jonathan Day

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Faint falls the light 03:57
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When she walks in silence 04:40
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Stranger meetings 04:38
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Carved from Bone 06:09
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Review from Andy Richardson, NME and Star journalist, April 17, 2020:

A singer/songwriter who lives on the
Shropshire border is looking forward to the
release of his new EP.

The musician has won rave reviews from
critics and fans alike.
Folk Radio described his work as
“utterly beautiful” while BBC DJ Bob Harris
described his music as “stunning”. BBC Inrtroducing said of this: "I fell in love as soon as I heard it - different,
gorgeous - honestly beautiful".

His EP features four songs of love and
loss, a distillation of years spent wandering
and playing. Presenting stories from a frozen
midsummer’s night on a Danish island, the
deep countryside of Belarus, streets in Bali
and the wide black land of Minnesota, these
compositions take their heart from time,
silence and the mad, mundane and quietly
beautiful vision of those who share the road.
Jonathan said the EP would be out on
April 24 via NiiMiiKa records.

He said his home in the West Midlands
helped inspire the music.
“I like the quiet, the animals and the trees.
It took me a long time to get here from where
I grew up, in between factories, steel hard
and iron grey. Long ago most of my family
lived in these borderlands; I guess I’ve
always been slowly heading home.
“There’s something important in the curve
of a bird’s wing as it cuts the wind and the
jumbled stones which break the earth on a
round hill’s top.
“It’s not only the things, temporary and
fleeting as we all are, frantic half seen ghosts
to the oldest of trees. It’s the intuitions which
shimmer and call in the buzzard’s mewl or
the fox’s flash. I try to hold this sparkling
stuff long enough to sing it and remember,
before it trickles through my fingers back
into the earth.”

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released April 24, 2020

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Folk Radio UK ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2019.

There’s something important in the curve of a bird’s wing as it rides the wind or the jumbled stones on a round hill’s top. I try to hold this sparkling stuff long enough to sing it and remember

"Stunning" Bob Harris BBC

"Utterly beautiful" Folk Radio UK

"Seductive, complex and poetic" ARTnews New York

"Scratching at the transcendent" Independent London ... more

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