Corncapri meets Little Pebble
The Farm Sessions - 6 track mini album
AVAILABLE NOW from selected record stores including Piccadilly and Normans.
Recorded over two days in a crumbling Scottish farmhouse, the Farm Sessions is a collaboration between two musicians separated geographically but drinking from the same creative well as Harvest-era Neil Young, Bonnie Prince Billy, PG Six and M Ward.
Corn Capri plays guitar with avant-garde British folk-rockers Starless & Bible Black in Manchester, whilst Little Pebble writes and records for the Fence Collective in Fife, as well as fronting anger-management fuzz-guitar garage rock duo Come in Tokyo.
Album opener ‘Already Sacred’ begins with a beautifully strummed chord progression leading into woozy, ethereal singing which wraps itself around the guitar like smoke, helped by judicious use of reverse reverb. The lyrics are cryptic and haunted, warming into exhilarating multi-part vocal harmonies for the middle eight which gives the track a redemptive peak.
The simple, bare acoustic lullaby that follows: ‘I’ll Be Your Suitcase’ makes use of sing-you-to-sleep vocals and Beach Boys harmonies augmented with scant touches of electric guitar.
‘Rain and the Sunshine’ uses ominous minor seventh chords for Little Pebble to conjure up elaborate sun-kissed/rain-soaked imagery over before the guitars echo away and disembodied vocal drones float into the mix.
‘What We Deal’ is simple and direct with distinctive finger picking that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Stephen Stills record.
‘Blisters’ is a masterpiece of spacey production, featuring a martian string quartet and Starless & Bible Black’s chanteuse Helene Gautier’s voice multi-tracked and layered into a 10-piece choir.
The final song, ‘Camping Indoors’, is a terrifically fun campfire sing-a-long that shows the humorous side to the duo, namechecking Manchester’s resident folk beard and beacon of good taste, DJ Dunk Le Chunk.
>> MP3 audio file: blisters
>> MP3 audio file: what we deal
>> MP3 audio file: rain and the sunshine
>> MP3 audio file: already sacred