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The Lighthouse Lies Dark

by Farlanders

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The Lighthouse Lies Dark features award-winning folk singer Laura Ward (Hickory Signals/Bird In The Belly) and classically-trained Tessa Gilles (Paul Diello Band). This is perhaps one of our more ambitious numbers and we are delighted to have worked with these fabulous female musicians.

A piece inspired by those who have offered, and continue to provide, light in the face of dark. The music and lyrics combine to conjure a sense of the past, and of inexorable change in our lifetimes.

lyrics

The lighthouse at sea, in the black empty ocean
On a rock all alone, those men lost to the water

Legands of life, The lighthouse silently wails

The storm took its toll, they fought for their soul
Proud memories did fall, a picture on the wall


All that we see, all that we sow
God only knows how we go on
The sky lost its stars
The lighthouse lies dark

credits

released August 8, 2021
composed, arranged and produced by Andy Fraser

©️ Andy Fraser, 2014

Recorded im part at Church Road Studios, Hove, Sussex.
Studio Engineer Paul Pascoe.
www.churchroad.net



Line up:

Laura Ward:

Laura Ward is a folk singer from Brighton. She forms one half of folk duo Hickory Signals whose debut album was named Guardian folk album of the month on its release in 2018 and is vocalist/flautist for four-piece folk band Bird in the Belly whose two albums to date have been met with critical acclaim with the Sunday Express calling their debut album its Folk Album of the Year. "Laura Ward's lovely voice directs songs to the heart" - Jude Rogers, The Guardian.

hickorysignals.bandcamp.com

birdinthebelly.bandcamp.com/releases


Tessa Gilles:

Tessa Gilles is a Sussex-based classically-trained violinist with experience across musical genres. In recent years she has been working with acclaimed singer and composer, Paul Diello, and recently sessioned for Flux People’s single ‘Black and Blue’.

pauldiello.bandcamp.com


Mark Wilson:

Mark Wilson is a bass player with, among others, Gumpf and Red Star Thistles. Both bands combine homegrown and Eastern European influences. He is also a member of South East-based Ceilidh outfit Kate's Kitchen Band. Mark is sought after for collaborations, including jazz and alternative music.

www.gumpf.net/music-i-did/

metroluxe.bandcamp.com/releases


Nick White:

Nick White is a jazz and progressive rock pianist from Suffolk, and has been a member of Farlanders since 2017. Nick’s contributions are integral to Farlanders and Nick is also currently working on his solo album.

farlanders.bandcamp.com


Andy Fraser:



Andy Fraser is a songwriter and musician working principally in the South East of England, and is a founding member of Farlanders. Andy has composed for theatre and film, as well as releasing his own material through Fresh Chilli Music.

ajfraser.bandcamp.com

www.freshchillimusic.com/fresh-releases/

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"Farlanders play by their own rules, challenging almost every imaginable convention of songwriting, and doing so with wild success."
(Rising Artists Blog, 2021).

Farlanders perform original compositions and modern arrangements of both traditional folk songs and songwriting classics. ... more

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