‘Flatpicker / Sam Bacon’s Blues’, the second track on the Test Pieces album, makes explicit the idea of a line, whether climbing, musical, or dancing as an expression of imagination and personality.
The video for ‘Resolution’, the third track on Test Pieces, features John Allen’s classic highball ‘Not To Be Taken Away’. The video examines the importance of our escapes in processing the stresses and pressures of daily life.
The fifth song, and only vocal track on the Test Pieces album, ‘A Deep Sea Diver’s Blues’ grew from a fragment of music recorded in the North Sea’s Forties Field in 1976. The video explores distance, family, separation and love.
The video for Your Lighthouse, the fifth track on May 2024’s Songs For Separation album, uses a detail from Dusan Malobabic’s painting of his oil on canvas work ‘Night Kitchen.’
The video for Signs and Symbols, the sixth track on May 2024’s Songs For Separation album, uses a collage of animations to outline and frame the song.
Not big on social media, Broken Oars Podcast occasionally put out tongue-in-cheek videos …
The Northumbria album was released on 1st May 2020. Find out more at Origin(al) Stories.
I ♡ Manchester was written and recorded on 23rd May 2017 in memory of all casualties following the Manchester Arena Bombing.
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