Artist: Richard James
Title: We Went Riding
Label: Gwymon
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 182kbit av.
Time: 00:42:10
Size: 57.60 mb
Rip Date: 2010-04-09
Str Date: 2010-06-21
01. Aveline 2:54
02. When You See Me (In The Pouring Rain) 3:33
03. Faces 3:29
04. You Stop The Rain 3:22
05. Blues (Hey Hey Hey) 3:12
06. When The Letter Arrives 3:30
07. Yes, Her Smile's Like A Rose 2:28
08. We Went Riding 4:56
09. Waiting Road 3:51
10. Said I'd Leave 4:16
11. Take Me Home 3:41
12. From Morning Sunshine 2:58
Release Notes:
Richard James is the former bass guitarist for the Welsh prog/folk band
GorkyÆs Zygotic Mynci.
After going into the studio with Iwan æRecallÆ Morgan, Richard James is
set to release a new album this summer.
Born and bred in Carmarthen, West Wales, Richard James formed GorkyÆs
Zygotic Mynci with schoolmates Euros Childs and John Lawrence while in
their mid-teens. He played bass and guitar with GorkyÆs as well as
writing and co-writing some of the songs. They recorded and released 8
albums and numerous epæs and singles, toured the world and split up
when it stopped being fun. They are today regarded as one of the main
influential bands in the renaissance of folk/pop psychedelic.
Richard now lives and makes music in Cardiff. He is also involved in
curating the musical side of the Laugharne Weekend festival, a literary
and sonic extravagance that takes place each Eastertide in WalesÆ
strangest township. His latest venture is a monthly multimedia event
called in Chapters, taking place in CardiffÆs Chapter Arts Centre and
featuring brand new collaborations with a range of WalesÆ musical and
literary talent.
RichardÆs first solo album The Seven SleeperÆs Den was a slow burn
collection of love songs and spacey instrumentals, sung in English and
occasionally Welsh, Somebody said it sounded like the Velvet
Underground with the ratio of New Yorkers to Welsh people reversed, and
they werenÆt far wrong.
Where The Seven Sleepers Den was a stripped back affair, new album We
Went Riding is a multilayered extravaganza that sees Richard James
letting lose his inner pop auteur, and together with long time
producer/collaborator Iwan Morgan (aka Recall), it features some of
CardiffÆs finest musicians helping to achieve his vision. This album
offers clear notice that the exploratory spirit, which always set
Gorkys apart from their peers, is still alive and well.
A future-pop classic from a deceptively low-key talent, We Went Riding
is released by Gwymon at the end of June 2010.
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