Artist : Petrels
Album : The Silver Chimney Club / Wat Tyler
Year : 2014
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 244kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 40m
Size : 73.29mb
Label : Denovali
Catalognr : DEN197
Tracklist:
01. The Silver Chimney Club 17:38
02. Wat Tyler 22:35
Releasenotes:
The Silver Chimney Club / Wat Tyler comprises two long form tracks written
between "Onkalo" and the latest Petrels album "Mima". Originally released for a
short while in digital format they're now presented here in re-mastered form
with new artwork for this release.
The Silver Chimney Club was written to mark the death of my grandfather, Ernest
Barrett, who passed away at the end of last year. A civil engineer during his
working life, The Silver Chimney Club was the name of a group formed of fellow
work colleagues who would meet up on a semi-regular basis - I suspect more for
social than professional reasons. As a tribute I'm not sure what he would have
made of it but I wanted to create something that combined the industry he was a
part of with his love of music that was passed on down to me. My grandfather was
a socialist and Labour supporter (by which I mean the original post-war,
pre-Blair party) - another thing I inherited from him, and which ties with the
second piece on this release.
Wat Tyler is named after the leader of the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381.
Ostensibly a revolt against the poll tax, the movement was built on an
undercurrent of a desire for social change and a demand for an end to the
stiflingly limiting social structures of the time. Initially successful, the
rebellion was abruptly cut short when Wat Tyler was murdered by the Mayor of
London after Tyler supposedly insulted the young kind of England, Richard II
during a parley. Over six centuries on, a lot less has changed in the world than
those involved in the Peasants' Revolt might have hoped.
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