Comes in gatefold card cover that holds an inner cover with printed spoken words and a 28-page booklet with lyrics, artworks by Artashes Stamboltsyan, and more. All is put in a Japanese mini-LP sleeve polypropylene bag - ideal for such a packaging!
18-page digital booklet in PDF format contains the original poems with their publishing year, artworks, the book matters, etc., provides easy navigation (see the picture) and is supported with clickable URLs to the related external web-resources. Best viewed in Full Screen mode.
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England in 1819 was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) in that very year, but published two decades later, after the death of the poet, in 1839. It is amazing to see that the pictures of the society survived, and the poem seems to be actual even after two centuries from the days it was written. Hence is the anger of modern protagonist, and hence is the musical component.
Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait used by Alfred Clint.
lyrics
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, – mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field;
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless – a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed –
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
credits
from Westerlies,
track released October 28, 2019
Levon Hakhverdyan - drums
Ashot Margaryan - electric guitars
Rima Mirzoyan - violins
Mikayel Abazyan - vocals, bass guitar, MIDI-keyboards
Born on July 9, 1971.
Self-trained playing piano, guitar and later - bass, which allowed me playing and making a few
recordings with various bands in Yerevan.
In 2014, joined a special project dedicated to the music of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator, which brought me back to studio work. Having released yet another successful solo tribute, started producing my own music.
And I like it!...more
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Passacaglia is one of the loveliest works of mighty JSB. While I adore HB's playing and his wonderful digital instrument as well, I admit that this record is jaw dropping for me. Frank Hadlich
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Hi Hugh, just a quick note that I pre-ordered the BIG box; I was lucky to pass this off as a birthday gift to myself ;).
I’ve been passing the Burning Shed order page around, but I do not believe it will be necessary as it seems to be selling in droves.
Anyhow thanks for all the work you do to preserve these recordings; it surely is a massive undertaking.
I hope I get to see the band play live again here in Montreal, but none of us are getting any younger….
Mark
Mark Penny
Boston post-punk outfit Junk Ranchers broke up in 1986 before this, their debut album, was released; darkly melodic, it's a long-lost gem. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 22, 2020
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They played a wonderful set at Summer’s End in October 2018 which was based around this album . For me it was one of the sets of the weekend. The record is a wonderful permanent reminder of the show. Tony Honour