Blue Stitches

Carla Diratz & The Archers of Sorrow

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Cat No: DISCUS169CD

Release Date: 22 March 2024

Label: Discus Music

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5051078010229

Genres: Blues Progressive Rock

Description
Sometime in 2022 vocalist / composer Carla Diratz commented that were she to make another album, the state of the world dictated that it would have to be a blues album. Immediately her band - The Archers of Sorrow had their brief for a new record. Each of the band members had their own take on this idea. Carla sent in four jazz infected pieces for voice and keys which were recorded on her phone. Guitarist Nick Robinson came up with a sequence of progressive blues rock pieces for the band. And saxophonist Martin Archer came up with a few little odds and ends with his own leftfield take on the format.
They hope you will enjoy their modern contribution to the progressive blues rock tradition.

Comments about the band's previous album "The Scale".
"A songbook as diverse as this one has to be given a lot of ear-time. It re-pays with unravelling mysteries, like an orchestrated spy novel. Big music does your head in, you have been warned." - Steve Day, December 2021
"Imagine that Captain Beefheart disbanded the Magic Band straight after Trout Mask Replica and then slipped off into the desert. By some freak of nature that I can't explain, he returns to 2021 having magically transformed into a French woman. In this new guise she captures a band of improvising musicians and imprisons them in a recording studio. They will not be released until total weirdness has been achieved. And they succeed. Fast and bulbous indeed." - feedback from a Discus Music customer.
Carla Diratz: voice, keyboard
Martin Archer: saxophones, clarinets, keyboards, electronics
Nick Robinson: guitars
Adam Fairhall: organ, electric piano
Dave Sturt: bass guitar
Adam Fairclough: drums
Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet
Tracklisting