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The Heron The Stickleback And The Shrew by Jonathan Day

Artist Biography For Jonathan Day

Made In A Derelict Church By The Daughter Of A Submariner And A Teddy Boy Welder He Was Raised Between Factories Steel Hard And Iron Grey. Old Now And Lonely Sometimes He Watches The Sky. He's Half In Love With Longing Searching For A Certain Whiteness JONATHAN DAY'S DISCOTHEQUE AVEIIA THE POLITICS OF NAVIGATION..... Jonathan Took A Tour Around Some Islands And Let Their Genomes Infest Him. You Know The Soldier In 'Ghost In The Machine' Who Sees Butterflies When His Mind Is Violated By Nanoprobes? He Sucked In Bits Of Bali And Japan Wales And Africa WOOD SONGS..... After 'Sky Like Me's' Studio Soundscapes This Work Took It All Down To Impromptu Live Recordings Through One Mike Direct To Disc. The 'studio' Was A Room In Jonathan's Forest House And The Songbirds Outside The Open Door Seem To Be Soloing On Some Of The Songs. A Need To Create Something Authentic With A Voice Some Wood And Some Wire Sits Quietly Around Here Somewhere. Post Post-Modern A Cry As Personal And Lyrical As The Curlew Buzzard And Nightingale That Pass His Door A SKY LIKE ME..... "Songs From Five Years Of Contemplation. Long Nights With Sages Poets And Painters And Long Journeys Wandering Around Europe Playing Its Streets And Cafes Are Here Held In Song. This Record Takes Its Heart From Time Silence And The Mad Mundane And Quietly Beautiful Vision Of Those Who Share The Road." Catherine Van Ruhland Greenbelt Festival GREEN DRUM..... Songs From The Road Less Travelled. A Younger Man Is Talking Here Of The Loin-Passion Of New Love Fury Against Injustice And Above All Standing Astonished At The Million Faced Beauty And Gut Wrenching Gutter Of The Wide World The Road That Goes Ever On

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