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Singer-songwriter, Scotland.

Voor de lol, The Pink House on Loch Glass, van de cover. Ik heb het enkele malen in het echt mogen aanschouwen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tirL92XQHCk

The album takes the last page of great literature and features the words of Alasdair Gray, Ali Smith, J.M. Barrie, Jackie Kay, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

"By focusing on the last lines, we are right where the story has almost run its course - and all that remains is one last beat - and those beats are often tragic or poignant or wistful, or romantic, joyous and exhilarating. I set myself the challenge as a songwriter to try and hold on to these final moments for just a few extra minutes, to try and sustain the spell that they cast." Gareth Williams.

So, these songs all have one thing in common - they begin on the final page of a book. And, all the books I chose for this collection also have something in common - when I read
them, I didn't want them to end.

So I took what I found in the final lines, with no words added and none taken out, and built verses, choruses, bridges, and refrains. Stories never stay on the page anyway - these ones
just became songs.

In each song, we hold on to the moment that comes just before we close a book for the final time. Remain there in the melancholy, the awkwardness, in the joy or the chill, even in the silence. Some of these stories end with trauma or heartache, some end with the promise of another adventure, some end in solitude. One ends with a slushie. All of them have allowed me to celebrate Scottish people, places, writing, and language. And they have allowed me to explore the notion that nothing is ever truly over- you can find a new beginning at the end of any story if you sit at the piano for long enough.

Of course you will find outliers here. Every concept album must have them. Ali Smith's How to be Both has not one but two possible endings - the song will lead you down the path I took to one of those final pages. Deirdre Graham's stunning contribution is a Gaelic song she gently pulled from a single page in the book Litir Chun an t-Saighdear Gun Ainm,
drawing from a letter by Calum MacKinnon. And lastly, I'm afraid I fell for a sentence just a few pages from the end of Peter Pan. So, for now, we must settle for a Song from near
the Last Page of Peter Pan.

Tired, enriched, unburdened for now, I follow the burn over the bealach and off the page, into where whatever has existed once, exists all the time. 

Tracks:
01 - Song from the Last Page of How to be Both
02 - Song from the Last Page of Lanark
03 - Song from the Last Page of the Pink House
04 - Song from the Last Page of Treasure Island
05 - Song from the Last Page of News of the Dead
06 - Bà Bà Mo Leanabh (feat. Deirdre Graham)
07 - Song from the Last Page of Duck Feet
08 - Song from the Last Page of Sonny and Me
09 - Song from near the Last Page of Peter Pan
10 - Song from the Last Page of the Valley of Fear
11 - Song from the Last Page of At the Loch of the Green Corrie

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4WTg76NcCY