This is what happens when our malevolent monarchy grants us the day off.  We post, not in our natural habitat of one minute past midnight (GMT), but in the bright light of day.  Oh dear.

20JFG hasn’t been paying close enough attention to the wonderful Digitalis Recordings over the years but we hope to change that.  Last year’s compilation for 14 tracks is a wonderful place to start (as is the recent, and beautiful, LP reissue of The Motion Sickness of Time Travel’s Seeping Through The Veil Of Unconscious).  It’s Peter Broderick’s contribution to that compilation that suits today’s diffused sunshine, fluttering greenery and deserted town centre.

Duet 3: Banjo/Piano contains a heartbreaking piano melody that gentlly drifts in and usurps the guitar’s earlier interpretation.  Enveloping that place in your heart reserved for lying in the sunshine in view of endless, nautical vistas.  It levitates, as it as it shifts key, up and out of your body.  The sound of a moment of tenderness in calm defiance of the exercise of cosmically awesome power.

Peter Broderick – Duet 3 Banjo Piano

This track is taken from the aforementioned Digitalis compilation 14 tracks: Digitalis Exclusives.

Winchester Croydon Winchester begins with a Susperia shimmer but rather than descend the mad avenues of Argento’s rosso splattered nightmares, Petrels take us above the roofline to luxuriate in the light of dawn.  This is a Escher-like dreamworld of women dressed in flowing white dresses locked in endless flight up and down medieval alleys, flowing in unfathomable cartographic circles preserved in some cyclic reverie.  All this, glimpsed from above with the euphoric feeling of having emerged out of the darkness and into the cool blue light.

Petrels – Winchester Croydon Winchester

Winchester Croydon Winchester is taken from Petrels’ album Haeligewielle which Tartaruga Records released earlier this week and will be out for download from 8th May.  You can listen to the whole thing on their Bandcamp here.

 

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