Pictures In The Morning

Name: Pictures In The Morning
Brand: Richard James
SKU: GWYMONCD015
Price: 7.99 GBP
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Cat No: GWYMONCD015

Release Date: 23 April 2012

Label: Gwymon

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 5055162130152

Genres: Folk

Description
Third solo album by former Gorkys Zygotic Mynci co-founder Richard James. With songs as gentle as the rolling hills, metronomic fingerpicking and lyrics that mix storybook simplicity with heartbreaking sadness, Pictures In The Morning is the latest album from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci co-founder Richard James. Written over two months in the summer of 2009, the album was recorded in two houses in Cardiff with producer/engineer Iwan Morgan. "I record everything now in houses, using every area of the building," says Richard. "It makes it hard to do drum tracks live but you can do acoustic ones. The album is meant to be quite low key and intimate as its quite personal." Richard lives and makes music in Cardiff, where he is also involved in curating the musical side of the Laugharne Weekend festival, a literary and sonic extravaganza that takes place each Easter. His latest venture is a called In Chapters, which staged four events last year including one at Green Man festival. Before then, there's Pictures In The Morning, an album which will be a welcome riposte to those who remember Richard James as the quiet member of Gorky's, the architect of the band's softer side. A strong thread of melancholy runs through its nine tracks. "It's a sad, reflective album mainly on loss and the melancholia of making and repeating mistakes in life," says Richard, "But I think there's hope there lurking in the songs too."
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