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BOOK THIEVING / PARAFFIN - OUT NOW!
Book Thieving/Paraffin is the second digital single from Nick Saunders's debut album Resonance, available at all digital music stores from April 23, 2007. B-side Paraffin is an exclusive, previously unreleased song not contained on the album.
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TOFFEE APPLES / THE RECKLESS SON - OUT NOW!
Toffee Apples/The Reckless Son is the first digital single from Nick Saunders's debut album Resonance, available on Digital Wings from Feb 19, 2007. B-side 'The Reckless Son is an exclusive, previously unreleased song not contained on the album.
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Both tracks are available to DOWNLOAD NOW for just 77p each at 7 DIGITAL ! The 7 Digital store lets you choose high quality tracks in a number of formats (Windows Media, MP3, AAC). You'll also find them on sale at iTunes , Virgin , HMV Digital , Napster , Woolworths and Tune Tribe .
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Resonance (Digital Wings), the debut album from Nick Saunders is on shelves NOW at all good stores such as HMV and FOPP . Order it online at Play.com , Amazon.co.uk , Tesco and Woolworths .
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The album is available to download from iTunes , HMV Digital , Virgin Digital , 7 Digital , Tune Tribe and Woolworths .
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REVIEWS:
"A treasure to hold on to" 10/10 - Americana UK
"Saunders craves our - entirely justified - indulgence" - Word
"Delightful" - Maverick
"The album is an absolute must-have" - Acoustic Magazine
ABOUT NICK SAUNDERS:
Nick Saunders is a man of rare gifts: a haunting and mellifluous voice that seems to channel the spirit of Nick Drake while possessing the warmth of James Taylor; the storytelling ability of a folk troubadour, married to a melodic and concise Tin Pan Alley sensibility. Nick's début, Resonance, is a truly spellbinding collection of songs and an incredible calling card for a new artist.
An intuitive acoustic guitarist, Nick uses a variety of alternative tunings to colour his work, resulting in unusual chord voicings and otherworldly sounds and textures. The title track opens the album and emphasises the fluid symbiosis between Nicks voice and guitar. Indeed, the entire album was recorded with Nick performing guitar and vocals simultaneously.
The recurring motifs on Resonance are primarily devices for communication (televisions, satellites, radios, typewriters), ironically juxtaposed with themes of isolation. Nowhere on the album is this idea better exemplified than in the song 'Lost', a song of urban alienation where ordinary city elements only seem to underline a desperate loneliness, relates the singer-songwriter.
The urban and the pastoral make compelling bedfellows in Nick's music. 'Descending' captures a yearning to escape the monotony of the daily grind and retreat to, in Saunders' words, some sort of Samuel Palmer-esque rural idyll.
Lyrically, the emphasis is on the wistful, the nostalgic and the melancholic. This is exemplified in tracks like Toffee Apples and Book Thieving, the latter based on a boyhood acquaintance of Nicks who used to steal books to order. Childhood memories also provide elliptical, dreamlike scenarios in his work.
When asked about the song Fly, Nick laughs: I set out with the intention of writing a more upbeat, happy song. By the time Id finished it was about a boy who got run over by a train. When you are young, much of the world is a complete mystery and the most ordinary places can become imbued with a special magic that makes them live in the memory forever.
As well as drawing upon the evergreen canons of songwriters such as Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, Joni Mitchell and Paul Buchanan, Nick derives much inspiration from the fields of art, literature and cinema. He cites Nick Roeg's 'Walkabout' as an all-time favourite film, it's central plot correlating with the album's recurring themes of (sometimes self-imposed) isolation.
Working in collaboration with producer/arranger Simon Barber, the record took shape over an 18-month period of stolen summers. During recording, no little care was taken; vocal/guitar sessions took place at Liverpools Motor Museum studio with Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, The Zutons) whilst the remaining sessions took place at Simons loft studio, Through A Glass Darkly, hidden away in the leafy suburbs of Liverpool.
Before moving to his current beach-side home in Devon, Nick spent fourteen years in Liverpool, where he became one of the founding contributors to the Acoustic Engine songwriter collective, frequented by talents such as Howie Payne, Steve Roberts, Peter Coyle, Tom Hingley and Andy White. An early demo of Nick's was plucked for inclusion on Viper Records' The Great Liverpool Acoustic Experiment and was singled out for praise as one of the album's gems by Record Collector magazine. As a result, he signed to independent label Digital Wings in 2005.
Resonance (Digital Wings), Cat No. IEGDWCD1, available from October 30th, 2006. Distributed by Shellshock and Pinnacle (digital).
For more information please see www.nicksaunders.co.uk . For national press please contact Clare McGrattan at Piranha PR on 07968 379 355 or e-mail clare @ piranha-pr.co.uk.
