Artist: Roddy Woomble
Title: The Impossible Song & Other Songs
Label: Greenvoe
Genre: Folk/Rock
Bitrate: 194kbit av.
Time: 00:49:50
Size: 73.11 mb
Rip Date: 2011-03-19
Str Date: 2011-03-21

01. A New Day Has Begun 4:36
02. Make Something Out Of What It's Worth 4:14
03. Work Like You Can 4:40
04. Tangled Wire 4:39
05. Roll Along 4:12
06. Hour After Hour 4:19
07. Leaving Without Gold 3:58
08. New Frontier 3:09
09. Old Town 4:06
10. Living As You Always Have 3:25
11. Gather The Day 3:47
12. Between The Old Moon 4:45

Release Notes:

Roddy Woomble releases his long awaited second album, 'The Impossible
Song & Other Songs'. Recorded at his local arts centre, An Tobar in
Tobermory on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, 'The
Impossible Song & Other Songs' follows his acclaimed solo debut 'My
Secret Is My Silence' (2006).

Roddy began writing & demoing the songs that appear on 'The Impossible
Song & Other Songs' at An Tobar with local guitarist and singer Sorren
MacLean in January 2010. Then in the summer of 2010, Dublin bassist
Gavin Fox (a member of Idlewild from 2003-2005) and Glaswegian drummer
and singer Gregor Donaldson (from the band Sparrow & The Workshop)
arrived in Mull and with Sorren & Roddy; the four piece recorded the
bulk of the album.

As Roddy explains, "The nature of An Tobar, being a working centre for
the arts on the island including a gallery, caf and performance space
meant that there were always interesting people around and musicians
coming to the venue to play concerts. We made the most of this. Gordon
MacLean, An Tobar's artistic director and the album's engineer, would
set up a few microphones after a performer's sound check, or even after
their gig, let them hear the song a few times and then record a
contribution"

As a result the album includes a magical mix of musical contributions
from jazz pianist Chick Lyall, saxophonist Rob Hall, fiddler Aidian
O'Rourke (Lau), accordion legend Phil Cunningham and famed Dundonian
songwriter Michael Marra.

A multi-faceted singer and songwriter, Roddy has a broad palate of
styles & influences and so the album moves from folk rock (Work Like
You Can); to country (New Frontier); to upbeat horn-led pop (Roll
Along); to indie rock (Leaving Without Gold); to the dark, jazzy
'Between The Old Moon', all held together by his soft Scottish baritone
and thoughtful, often mysterious lyrics.

Lyrically the album touches on themes that have often cropped up in
Roddy's work - the troubled alliance between Nature and Man, the onset
of modernization and the end of old ways, what it means and what is
worth giving up in order to achieve it.

Roddy says of his lyrics, "Song lyrics have an unique ability to blend
magical elements into a realistic setting. It's not a requirement to me
that they make sense - the music can give them their meaning. Books I
go back to again and again - Lewis Grassic Gibbon 'Sunset Song', Knut
Hamsun 'Growth Of The Soil', Halldor Laxness 'Independent People'.
Stories that manage to be both epic in scale and yet intimate in their
humanity, the way that any good song can be. I think this is as strong
a collection of songs that I've ever put my name to and I'm proud that
I managed to write and record them in such a collaborative and
resourceful way. The record, in many ways, is a scrapbook of six months
at An Tobar, with me in the centre"

Roddy spent fifteen years releasing albums and touring worldwide with
Idlewild and the band are now on hiatus. He is fast gaining a
reputation as a solo artist in his own right and as part of the trio
'Drever, McCusker & Woomble' (with guitarist Kris Drever and
multi-instrumentalist John McCusker) having released their acclaimed
album 'Before The Ruin' in 2008.

You should go out and buy this not only because the music is brilliant,
but the artwork is superb too. I scanned it all in, but you can't
appreciate it's quality without seeing it properly for yourself. Enjoy!

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