Em poucas palavras, desde o início dos anos 80, Bill Pritchard mostrou que está no topo do seu jogo. Agora chega Sings Poems by Patrick Woodcock – uma nova e emocionante aventura, uma colaboração com o aclamado poeta canadiano Patrick Woodcock, que será editado no dia 5 de maio pela Tapete Records.

Woodcock, que escreveu nove livros de poesia e cuja obra foi traduzida para 14 idiomas, é fã de Bill Pritchard há três décadas e, durante os longos e sombrios dias de bloqueio, ele decidiu entrar em contato com Pritchard e perguntar se ele escreveria uma música baseada em um dos seus poemas. Assim aconteceu o início de uma grande amizade por e-mail entre o premiado poeta que vive muito acima do Círculo Polar Ártico e o cantor/ compositor das Midlands de onde resultou o presente álbum.

O álbum tem tudo o que esperas de um álbum de Bill Pritchard, tudo o que esperas de um grande álbum pop: canções de elegância atemporal armadas com poemas incríveis de Woodcock, canções com diversas camadas que parecem feitas sem qualquer esforço ao mesmo tempo. O álbum contém 11 pérolas brilhantes da guitarra pop que provam que Pritchard é um dos grandes nomes do género ao lado de artistas como Lloyd Cole ou Roddy Frame.

Sings Poems By Patrick Woodcock é uma obra de beleza e uma prova de amor e respeito pelo trabalho um do outro. É uma alegria, um triunfo experimental e artístico e, talvez de se esperar, uma obra-prima lírica e musical.

Todas as músicas foram criadas a partir de poemas que estão presentes no 10º livro Farhang Book I de Patrick Woodcock com data de lançamento para dia 5 de setembro de 2023.

SINGLE “LANCE” 

Lance is lyrically Patrick at his most vitriolic. It chugs along like a little pop classic but watch out for the dodgy priest and the counterfeit collection plates.

Bill Pritchard 

While taking breaks from working on my new manuscript 'Farhang Book 1' I began writing to artists whose music was, and still is, the soundtrack to my time working and writing abroad or volunteering in Canada's north. I asked if they would write a song for me using pieces from my unfinished manuscript.

I have been listening to Bill Pritchard since 1989 when I first heard his lyrically brilliant and sonically beautiful album Three Months, Three Weeks & Two Days. From his 1991 album Jolie to 2019's Midland Lullabies, Pritchard continues to astound me. It was pure joy to work with someone as kind and generous as Bill and to hear him alter my lines while shaping the song. Bills spent months working on this piece. I cannot thank him enough for capturing the rhythm and frustration with my lines. I would also like to thank Scott Ralph for engineering the piece and finding the notes and lines their proper homes.

Lance The Losh and Pastor' is a short simple piece about my disillusionment and hatred for the church - more specifically, the church in Canada and in First Nations Communities. This was written about my time in Fort Good Hope where I volunteered for a year with the community's elders through Frontiers Foundation.

Patrick Woodcock 

Lance The Losh And Pastor 

Lance’s tongue is sick so the fish sing to mock his blathering; the swish of his strainer, the strike of his chisel. Wind burn, ice burn, drop his line to hell. Fleshed fish, dried fish, nudge the pressure crack; fold a mausoleum on his arthritic back. A congregation hovers, his old god rests, as the current passes judgment on what undertows suggests. The ministry is ill. Lord let the bell ring to mock their blubbering; the swash of the cassock, the lustre of the cross, naves burn, aisles burn, snow melts into moss. Warped christ, chipped christ, let his income wane; counterfeit collection plates cast and catch the same. A congregation wonders, His long reach numbs, as the damaged and deceived dig new graves beside their mums. 

DISCO SINGS POEMS BY PATRICK WOODCOCK 

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