Robb Johnson & The Irregulars: Pandemic Songs
Pandemic Songs
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- Label: Irregular
- Bestellnummer: 10273736
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.9.2020
Product Information
Card wallet /16 page lyric booklet. Pandemic Songs is songwriter Robb Johnson's chronicle in song of the unprecedented events of the first half of 2020. His critically-acclaimed family histories of the 20th Century Gentle Men & Ordinary Giants use song to dramatise past lives & narrate significant historical events & processes. Pandemic Songs uses songs to provide a media-free perspective of contemporary history, with thirteen tracks written between March & June of this year, that record & comment on the global pandemic, from Robb's local UK perspective. The songs are angry, sad, affectionate, elegiac, satirical, anxious, & compassionate. They celebrate our lives in lockdown & the endurance of our keyworkers, & catalogue the vanities, incompetence, hypocrisy & failures of those in power. Pandemic Songs was recorded with a socially-distanced pared-down version of The Irregulars; John Forrester on bass & vocals, Arvin Johnson on drums, percussion & Spanish guitar, & Fae Simon on vocals. The result is a powerful, visceral album, a significant creative response to these very significant times. Robb Johnson is now widely recognised as one of the UK's finest songwriters: »An English original«, - The Guardian
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 SAINT MARY (A FABLE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF A VIRUS)
- 2 MONDAY AFTERNOON IN THE PARIS HOUSE (MARCH 16TH, & A LAST GIG BEFORE LOCKDOWN)
- 3 422 (LOCKDOWN HAS BEGUN)
- 4 ONE MORE LOCKDOWN DAY (LOCKDOWN CONTINUES)
- 5 5373 (THE NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM COVID 19 CONTINUES TO RISE)
- 6 89P (THE GOVERNMENT RESPONDS BY PROMOTING A CARE BADGE)
- 7 DISINFECTANT (PRESIDENT TRUMP PROMOTES A CURE)
- 8 THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY WEEK (THE WEEKLY LOCKDOWN SHOPPING)
- 9 ALL THE BELLS WERE RINGING (THE NIGHTLY LOCKDOWN DREAMING)
- 10 LOCKDOWN JOKES & STORIES (THREE SAD STORIES- BELLY MUJINGA, RAILWORKER, MERVYN
- 11 KENNEDY, BUS DRIVER, LOUISA RAJAKUMARI, TEACHER, & ONE BAD JOKE - DOMINIC
- 12 CUMMINGS DRIVES TO DURHAM)
- 13 VICTORY IN EUROPE (MAY, & THE UK ACHIEVES THE HIGHEST RATE OF COVID 19 DEATHS IN
- 14 EUROPE)
- 15 THE DAYS WE DON'T FORGET (A PROPER REMEMBRANCE)
- 16 IN PALMEIRA SQUARE (JUNE 17TH, & LOCKDOWN IS ENDING)