Ashley Hutchings - Paradise and Thorns (2018)
Folk, Folk-Rock | 01:30:22 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 448 MB
Label: Talking Elephant
Folk, Folk-Rock | 01:30:22 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 448 MB
Label: Talking Elephant
"Ashley Hutchings is the single most important figure in English folk-rock" - Bob Dylan 2015
In 1987 Ashley Hutchings released By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept, an album that told a very personal love story. It was unusual in that the story was not told from a 'looking back' perspective, Ashley had written the songs, the poems and letters as the story itself was unfolding. Only later did he realise that all those fragments could come together to tell some of the story. But it was an unfinished symphony ? there was more to tell and there was no real end as Hutchings was to discover many years later when he finally re-established contact with the heroine of the tale.
Hutchings' new double CD 'Paradise and Thorns' is all about love and its consequences. Disc One ? 'Gloucester Docks Revisited' - adds more detail to the unfolding relationship Hutchings depicted in the original album and brings into focus other scenes not previously described. It includes several brand new songs, 'Devil May Care in Our Dancing Shoes and 'Thirty Two Years and A Lifetime' both of which were inspired as a consequence of Hutchings and his love having found each other again after so many years.
As on the original album Hutchings' writings have drawn inspiration from all aspects of the arts; from rock and traditional music, through poetry, history, storytelling and folklore, photographs and cinema. A true romantic at heart, Hutchings ? playing the part of the main character, relives the scenes from those writings to create with his paramour their own screenplay. The result is an unfolding drama one might watch on television or at the cinema. The story is 'theirs' but the images conjured by the words and music become a personal screenplay that many people will identify with.
Disc two is Hutchings' personal selection of love songs and stories demonstrating the many faces and types of love and what it means in different contexts. 'And Other Tales of Love' - illustrates the inevitable unfolding path of a love affair. The symbolic description of 'angels, air and flight' convey a lightness and ephemeral state experienced during the first months of a new found love. Followed by the turmoil of impending break-up juxtaposed to war and the thoughts of serving soldiers dwelling on the ones they have left behind. And finally to the fleeting memories of that early love, and the confusion of bowing to the inevitable before the grief of final parting.
Ashley's references and influences act as a guide throughout and invite exploration below the surface of these two albums. The contrast of ideals in the title itself 'Paradise and Thorns' the bliss and the pain - provokes more than just a single listen ? and the listener is justly rewarded for spending time in its company
Tracklist:
01. Ashley Hutchings - Elegie XII
02. Ashley Hutchings - Kitty Come Down the Lane
03. Ashley Hutchings - The Meadow
04. Ashley Hutchings - Art Nouveau
05. Ashley Hutchings - St. Valentine's Day Sonnet
06. Ashley Hutchings - Trip to Bath
07. Ashley Hutchings - Sultana Cake
08. Ashley Hutchings - Cul-De-Sac
09. Ashley Hutchings - Our Stolen Season
10. Ashley Hutchings - Has This Hotel so Many Secrets
11. Ashley Hutchings - Devil-May-Care In Our Dancing Shoes
12. Ashley Hutchings - Eugene Onegin
13. Ashley Hutchings - It Was My Heart
14. Ashley Hutchings - I Dreamed a Dream
15. Ashley Hutchings - Thirty-Two Years and a Lifetime
16. Ashley Hutchings - Epilogue/French Catholic Wedding Tune
17. Ashley Hutchings - Avona and the Giant
18. Ashley Hutchings - Above the Angels
19. Ashley Hutchings - Aire and Angells
20. Ashley Hutchings - If There's No Other Way
21. Ashley Hutchings - If Love Has Wings
22. Ashley Hutchings - The Swift
23. Ashley Hutchings - Such a Crazy Marriage
24. Ashley Hutchings - Polly on the Shore
25. Ashley Hutchings - I Remember Every Detail
26. Ashley Hutchings - I Was Thinking of Clarissa
27. Ashley Hutchings - Welcome to the World
28. Ashley Hutchings - Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man Part One
29. Ashley Hutchings - Sykaleshe
30. Ashley Hutchings - Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man Part Two
31. Ashley Hutchings - Lost in the Haze
32. Ashley Hutchings - Romeo and Juliet excerpt/song from Cymbaline
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