Nightjar Digipack CD
Pre-order here to arrive on or before the Spring release date.
Nightjar is my first solo album - made alongside the Sussex coast with help from Neill MacColl, Ben Nicholls and David Tomlins, mostly recorded live in the studio - engineered, mixed and mastered by Dave Izumi.
A tangle of word and melody, old and new, Nightjar evokes journeys along ghostly paths, country lanes and starlit shorelines - alive with shimmering patterns of a flowing tide. Stories - of childhood, of loves and rivalries, fair maidens, cruel sisters and winged sorceress - are interwoven with glimpses of the natural world: honeysuckle, yellow poppies, briars and brambles, pausing in quiet murmurs under a snow moon, the pale moon, from my corner of the meadow.
Nightjar... with air from Liz Overs, earth from Neill MacColl, Ben Nicholls & David Tomlins, fire from The Binnie Sisters and salt water from the Sussex coast.
Liz Overs: vocals, autoharp
Neill MacColl: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ebow, marxophone, vocals, guitaret, psaltery
Ben Nicholls: double bass, banjo, concertina
David Tomlins: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
The Binnie Sisters: speaking voices
Traditional arrangements: Overs/MacColl/Nicholls/Tomlins
Cover artwork Winter Solstice by Jennifer Binnie
Moon photography by Jeff Overs
Produced by Liz Overs
Recorded mostly live at Echo Zoo, Eastbourne
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Dave Izumi at Echo Zoo
Video coming soon from Dylan Howitt, Director of The Nettle Dress.