‘Suit of Stones’ recorded live in Tuchlaube Café Bar, Aarau, CH 04/09/12 with Sophia Basler on the violin.
We played some songs together for the first time last week at my concert in Aarau - was a lot of fun and I think we’ll play again this Thursday in Zürich here.
Download this recording for free here.
Still these shows left for me to play in Switzerland - I tell you, it’s been great so far.
12/09/12 Zar Café Bar, Bern, CH
13/09/12 La Catrina, Zürich, CH
15/09/12 Café Kairo, Bern, CH
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Here’s a live recording of ‘Bad Roads Ahead’ from the new album - played solo in the great Tankstell bar in St Gallen the night before last. I don’t know how it should go but something like this perhaps.
Free download of this version here.
In Switzerland for another week - these coming up:
08/09/12 industrie 45, Zug, CH
09/09/12 House Concert, Ins, CH - email for details
10/09/12 House Concert, Thun, CH - email for details
12/09/12 Zar Café Bar, Bern, CH
13/09/12 La Catrina, Zürich, CH
15/09/12 Café Kairo, Bern, CH
Enjoying myself with all this right now - may not sound like it I know…
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Title: Barbara Allen (live 18/05/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Barbara Allen (live 18/05/12)’ - the folk standard sang in Mario’s living room in Oberhausen, DE last month. Many thanks to him for sending the recording across to me - you can download this song for free right here.
Title: The Woods Were Full Of Them (live 12/05/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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Free download of ‘The Woods Were Full Of Them’ live at Café Averechts in Utrecht last week. Volker Hormann playing cello for the first time on this one. Link for a download of the mp3 here.
Tomorrow I’ll ride up to Paderborn for a concert at Sputnik - details here. Never visited the town before, have no idea. Then the next day a short hop to Oberhausen for a house show, and then right across to Dresden for a concert at Veränderbar - details for that one are here. Happy to be travelling back to Dresden indeed, but perhaps happier still to have a little time right afterwards to stay at home and perhaps even write some songs and begin the next thing. Let’s see.
Title: Limmat (live 12/05/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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Free download: ‘Limmat’ with Volker Hormann on the cello live in Utrecht in front of about 6 people last Saturday. Link to download here - another song from this show tomorrow.
Title: I Do Wrong (live 05/05/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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‘I Do Wrong’ live in Cassino, Italy on the 5th of May 2012. For a free download of this song click here.
This was the last show of six concerts in Italy last week. My voice was hoarse from singing in the warm evenings and I had the Beastie Boys on my mind. I don’t often ad-lib with hip-hop lines coming to me in sudden flashes but I blame it on the heat. I really enjoyed this show, will perhaps post more from it in the next few days if I have time.
Title: The Burning Of Two (live 04/04/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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‘The Burning Of Two’ live in Hjørring, Denmark a few weeks ago.
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Tomorrow I’ll ride up to Berlin for a concert there on Friday at Kottbusser Tor. Details here. The next day I’ll travel down to Siegen for the first time for a show at VEB. Details for that show are here.
Next week I’ll head down to Switzerland and then Italy - bah, quite a bit of stress with that department right now as I’ve lost my driving licence and many panicked phone calls and faxes flying about trying to sort it. We’ll see.
Title: 'Song For No One' (live 04/04/12)
Artist: The Great Park
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Title: The Displacement Song
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Displacement Song’ from the rather epic ’We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t’ album available as a super cheap download HERE. I played most of this outside my back door at Jesswood in Ireland stomping in wellington boots too big for me and using all the garden tools I could find as poor percussion. Much fun to do.
Anyway, point is this song was originally written by my dear friend Liz Green - she’d been playing it for a while and I learnt it from a recording I made of her back in Brighton in 2007. At that time she hadn’t recorded a version of it that she was happy with but now everyone can hear it the way it should be done on her wonderful album ‘O, Devotion!’ Go get yourself a copy HERE.
Title: Song For No One
Artist: The Great Park
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“Sucht man Direktheit, so wird man sie vor allem im zentralen „Song for no one“ finden, der für mich so etwas wie das Herzstück des Albums darstellt. Seine erste Zeile negiert den Titel des Albums, oder bestätigt ihn, da er ja „for no one“ ist. Aber er verweigert auch in jeder Hinsicht die typische Ironie, die bei The Great Park meist schon an der Oberfläche existiert, und zielt als Song über das Festhalten direkt auf’s Wesentliche – in seiner emotionalen und zum Teil fast sentimentalen Bildwahl, in seiner brüchigen Stimme und seinen reduzierten Akkorden. Ohne dieses Stück, dass in vielerlei Hinsicht das Gegenstück zu den anderen Songs ist, wäre der Rest nur eine Sammlung schöner Lieder, so ist das Album eine runde Sache.” African Paper review here.
‘Song For No One’ from the ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ album - available again on handmade cd here and always to download here.
Title: Lover O Lover
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Lover O Lover’ from my last album - FREE DOWNLOAD HERE.
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‘The Shot’ played live in Darmstadt with Johny Lamb of Thirty Pounds Of Bone on the banjo.
Original version of this is on my 2007 album ‘The Weeping Well’ long sold out on cd but always available over at Bandcamp (http://thegreatpark.bandcamp.com/album/the-weeping-well) - and you can download this live version for free right here.
As an aside, my last two albums ‘Winter’ and ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ are back in stock on cd here.
Stephen
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Title: Red Barn, Black Barn, Tree (live 10/11/11)
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Red Barn, Black Barn, Tree’ played live in Darmstadt with Johny Lamb of Thirty Pounds Of Bone on the banjo and the shouting. He likes this song, apparently.
Original version of this is on my album ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ currently sold out on cd but always available over at Bandcamp - and you can download this live version for free right here: http://www.mediafire.com/?653mz1dcg1q5fbb
More later, have a lovely Saturday.
Stephen
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Title: Key
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Key’ from the new album ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ available on lovely, limited cd right here: http://www.woodlandrecordings.com/thegreatparkmusic.html
A couple of other albums, some sessions for good rooms and about ten thousand live shows I’m embarrassed to keep online to be found on that page too.
This is a little thing to me, something of an idea for a song - enough just to play through it and keep it for itself. Stefanie sang some on it too. Easy. I’ve been playing it at a few concerts recently and there’s not too many from the album that I’m comfortable playing yet - but I can manage this.
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I’m in Nürnberg this week - playing a concert down here on Thursday night. Here’s the facebook wotsit. Small little bar, looks like we’ll fill it with cool kids. Uh-oh. Please join us if you can.
Stephen
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Title: Lover O Lover
Artist: The Great Park
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‘Lover O Lover’ from the new album ‘Now Wash Your Hands’ available in a couple of weeks, maybe earlier.
The thing to say here is the playing of Dea Szücs from Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop on violin and Johny Lamb from Thirty Pounds Of Bone on the horns. Both of whom played kind of blind and jumped in and made a great noise for me. Thank you both.
Artwork is being done for this album now, should have it ready to sell in time for my concert at Intersoup here in Berlin on the 17th of September. Come along if you’re in town.
Stephen
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