Jones - Hopeland (2009)

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Jones - Hopeland (2009)
Country | 1CD | M4Aa AAC 255 Kbps | 125 Mb
Label: Meme Records | Language: English

“A solo project (of sorts) by Miracle Mile’s Trevor Jones (with band partner Marcus Cliffe co-producing and providing piano and bass), this came together over the course of a year he spent in the Corsican village of Speloncato going through a period of reflection and self-examination, searching for life’s sparks of beauty. While not a concept album, it does hang together as an emotional whole with the journey from arrival to Homeward interlaced by poems that provide thematic tonal setting, spoken over Cliffe’s piano backing. ….
it’s the songs that make this such a luminous, emotionally affecting affair and, while Miracle Mile fans will hear the band’s sound echoed here, listening to the voice, phrasing and melodies of numbers such as Realer Than Real, To Tell You The Truth or Coffee And Stars (the title, incidentally of the band’s recent compilation), it’s hard not to find yourself thinking of Martyn Joseph. Not only do the two of them sound incredibly alike, but they both share the deep seated humanity you bubbles through their songs…..
With acoustic guitar and piano complemented by Melvin Duffy’s pedal steel and weissenborn, Cathy Thompson’s violin and Lucinda Drayton on backing vocals, it’s an autumnal pastoral palette of country-tinged folk that gently strokes your hair and unbuttons your heart until, by the time it reaches the exquisite beauty, aching romanticism and pledged devotion of the title track, you find your eyes filling. Quoting the song’s lyrics, the inner sleeve bears the dedication “I just want to give you something to remember me by”. These are memories for a lifetime. …. ” – Album Information on Amazon.co.uk