THE WANING CRESCENT - JOSIENNE CLARKE AND BEN WALKER
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will release their debut
album for Rough Trade, ‘Overnight,’ on October 14th, 2016. The album which is
self-produced, follows their Rough Trade debut, the ‘Through The Clouds' EP, which
was released earlier this year.
‘Overnight’ is their most ambitious record to date, focusing
on Clarke’s extraordinary voice and lyrics, and Walker’s prodigious
guitar-playing and arranging; the album features panoramic orchestration by an
eclectic core of acclaimed musicians, including strings, horns, piano, double
bass, and drums. The twelve songs – ten originals and two covers - recorded almost entirely live at
Rockfield Studios in Wales - serve as a snapshot of the endless cycle of night
into day and back again, morning light, into dusk, into black midnight, into
greying dawn, and on, and on.
The album’s lilting first single, “The Waning Crescent,” is
almost an answer in ballad form to the portrayal of the moon in traditional and
popular music as a soothing, confessional, companion (i.e. “Blue Moon”). Coming
at the darkest and stillest point in the album, the song – like the moon –
brings a reassuring lightness.
Clarke explains, "I started to think about if I was the
moon, what I might think and feel, and what the moon might sing back,” adding,
“I’ve given it a slightly whiny, self-pitying quality because it’s whimsical
and a bit funny.”
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