ARTIST: Adam S. Leslie
TITLE: A Lincolnshire Echo
LABEL: Adam S. Leslie
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 52:50 min
SIZE: 84,9 MB
RIP DATE: Mar-04-2007
RELEASE DATE: 000-00-2006
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Twenty 05:46
02. Deeping Gate 03:34
03. New York 02:34
04. Tetney Lock 03:33
05. Gibraltar 03:27
06. Dogdyke 04:03
07. Mavis Enderby 04:20
08. Swallow 02:50
09. Long Bennington 02:49
10. Caythorpe 02:58
11. Hill Dyke 03:49
12. White Pit 02:45
13. Hough-On-The-Hill 08:21
14. Little London 02:01
Release Notes:
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN ALBUM PACKED WITH TEXTURE,
COLOUR AND GREAT TUNES, LOOK NO FURTHER!
Often likened to The Beatles, The Kinks, The Small
Faces and The Who, 'A Lincolnshire Echo' is
nonetheless a work like no other.
ügI don't believe in filler,üh says its creator,
Adam S. Leslie. ügI've put an equal amount of care
and attention into each of these tracks. If I'm to
expect real people to pay their hard-earned cash for
my product, then it's my duty to make sure it's
worth having, that every moment on this record is
worth listening to... not once, but time and again.
I wanted to create something that people can hold in
their hand and treasure for years to come, and I
believe I've achieved that.üh
Packed with hooks, the songs will lodge in your
brain ? you'll be humming them for weeks!
The album is psychedelic without being corny, retro
without being dated, modern without sounding like
everyone else, experimental yet accessible. The
music is drawn from the heart of the rural English
dreamscape ? neither folk nor country, but instead a
kaleidoscope of influences: hymns, sea shanties, the
strange melodies of dreams, rock'n'roll, surrealist
thought, pop music in its purest form... anything
that has ever made an impression on their creator, a
sticky soup of music just waiting to get out.
A Lincolnshire Echo is a bittersweet love-letter to
the remote hamlets and villages which comprised
Adam's childhood. Each song an anthem to a place in
Lincolnshire ? a daydream, a folly, sometimes a
black joke or a sneer or a nightmare dressed as a
lullaby. The album is a 14-track journey, from the
snaking backwards guitars at the beginning of Twenty
to the cascading church-bell guitars at the fade of
Little London.
TWENTY
A five-minute television jingle advertising Twenty
Cream Soda, a drink which inspired optimism,
compassion and deep nagging doubts. Available only
in the village of Twenty for three days during the
summer of 1983, the sugary liquid came in sun-faded
blue cans that were always a little too far away to
hold and a little too close to ever see properly.
DEEPING GATE
A farewell from Lincolnshire to the people of
Deeping Gate, the village soon drifted away for its
new life in a new county. Released as a single in
the woods around Deeping Gate, the record was
pressed into the bark of trees and could only be
listened to by microbes. If you ever hear a
scarecrow in Lincolnshire humming to itself in the
dead of night, it will be humming Deeping Gate.
NEW YORK
This is the actual song sung by highwayman John
Nevison as he hung from the gallows in York in 1684,
as he both recalled fond memories of his time in
Lincolnshire, and anticipated the magnificent
Chrysler Building several hundred years early.
Actually, this may well be the only song in
existence about which it can be said, ügno, a
different New Yorküh.
TETNEY LOCK
A punk song much beloved by Victorian teenagers, it
was especially popular with rebellious young
clerical apprentices in Lincoln.
GIBRALTAR
The favourite song of Lincolnshire's first
astronaut, Elizabeth Locke, who first took to the
air in 1741. This song was also briefly adopted for
the national anthem during the spring of 1801, and
was most famously played after Sir Charles De
Lacey's dramatic win at the 1801 Italian Grand Prix.
DOGDYKE
A sea shanty written by ghosts, the notation for
this song was actually discovered scrawled on the
wall of a haunted chapel in Fosdyke in 1967, but
soon became attached to the nearby village of
Dogdyke, perfectly describing as it does the
geography of Dogdyke's unusual roadways. The song is
performed exactly as written, including the unusual
(yet subtle) changes in rhythm throughout.
MAVIS ENDERBY
This was King Charles II's favourite song with the
title Mavis Enderby ? but little did the doomed
monarch know the lyrics are actually a Pagan
incantation (though have been altered for this
recording to prevent supernatural activity in the
homes of those listening to the CD). On top of this,
the guitar solo at the end perfectly describes the
chemical formula for the limestone found
predominantly around the village of Mavis Enderby.
The drummer was taken to the vets and destroyed
immediately after this recording.
SWALLOW
The village of Swallow is so named because of the
alarming regularity with which its hapless residents
are sucked underground by its marshy soil. This song
is written as a lament to all those lost souls.
LONG BENNINGTON
This is a song from the future, about which nothing
is yet known.
CAYTHORPE
Whenever you have a song in your head and you can't
put your finger on where you've heard it before ?
this is it! For the first time ever on CD, here is
the song in the back of your mind, the one you hear
in dreams; this is the musical equivalent of deja vu
or those meaningless nagging doubts that plague you
as you fall asleep.
HILL DYKE
This is a 17th Century hymn originally written by
Pastor Robert Drake, and presented here in its most
authentic form. Robert Drake later became famous as
the inventor of ice.
WHITE PIT
The lyrics of this song mean something different to
everyone who hears them ? and by an amazing
coincidence, also make perfect sense to Russian
speakers.
HOUGH-ON-THE-HILL
This song was written using the mathematics of
nature. Bizarrely, there are actually two Houghs:
Hough-On-The-Hill (the subject of this song) and its
identical twin Hough On The Hill. They are
impossible to tell apart, and travelers are often
found wandering hopelessly confused. Even locals are
unsure which of the two they live in, or whether it
really makes any difference. The guitar solo at the
end of this song was played by a trained bonobo
chimp called Charlie.
LITTLE LONDON
Little London is identical in every way to the real
London, only smaller and more rural. It has secretly
been the capital of Lincolnshire since the 1950s. It
was also the home of Sir Isaac Newton for 45 minutes
while he ate some pie.