Interesting with a haunting quality - the sound has a natural fluid resonance, sensual and it speaks with the fluidity of water or the ocean !! BUT no romantic or female echoes at all !!      The lyrics are fine just have no reference here !!

Recorded in Huai'an, China on a little iRiver recorder just after I'd written it. The guitar is a bit rattly, but I like it. 

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‘In the water’ is the first glimpse at Sea Glass, the eagerly awaited new album from esteemed Melbourne artist Grand Salvo. Sea Glass is out October 5 on Mistletone via Inertia. Pre-order vinyl/CD here: www.mistletone.net/grandsalvo

The first excerpt from Sea Glass is a baroque-folk rumination on memory, loss, the passing of time and death: “Oh say you love me before I go / will you remember me when I’m gone”. Someone walks slowly along the beach, though it soon becomes apparent that this is a beach of dreams, where everything is allegory and symbol. “I wander slowly along the shore / the tide is high and the sun is low”; a childlike attempt to articulate the endless flow of time. 

Paddy Mann has made six albums under the Grand Salvo moniker: (1642-1727), River Road in 2002, Temporal Wheel in 2005, Death in 2008, Soil Creatures in 2009 and Slay Me In My Sleep in 2012. His songs can be both sparse and heavily orchestrated, with each album focused on a particular idea or theme. Death was a story-book affair, with narration and intricate programmatic arrangements; Slay Me In My Sleep, an ambitious narrative-based song cycle co-produced with Nils Frahm, was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize. All Grand Salvo’s albums have received lavish critical acclaim, winning Album of the Week on RRR (twice), Radio National, PBS, RTR and 4ZZZ. 

Sea Glass is Grand Salvo’s seventh album, and his Mistletone debut. This richly allegorical album explores how a single, vivid memory can shape who we are; resurfacing and altering our thoughts and recollections as the years go by. The album’s very structure is an approximation of how such a memory is forged; each song radiates out from a seed memory which unfolds like a lotus jewel in Field of Flowers, the second-last song and the only “straight” narrative song of this remarkable album. The album then closes with Standing On The Sea, a dreamlike journey on the beach that uncovers “a shard of sand smoothed emerald glass / and a change in the light”, layering the dreams of childhood and the memories of adulthood into a woozy contemplation of eternity and the cyclic, ever evolving nature of memory.

Sea Glass was recorded using a number of non-western instruments including qanun (Persian dulcimer), kora (African harp), koto (Japanese stringed instrument) and Indian percussion, with a heady female chorus (Laura Jean, Lisa Salvo, Hannah Cameron, Michelle Surowiec) reprised throughout the album, woven through the narrative like a recurring dream.

Grand Salvo has performed throughout Australia and internationally, making appearances in London, New York, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris and throughout Japan. He has shared stages with artists such as Fleet Foxes, Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten, and has produced and arranged live shows with up to 25 musicians at Melba Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre and The Arts Centre Victoria. His collaborations include Daughters Fever (2015) with Peter Knight, Curious Animals (2016) with baroque violinist Lizzy Welsh and Tamara Saulwick’s Helpmann award-nominated theatrical work Endings (2015).

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Grand Salvo - In The Water

Twenty one males take their lives every week in Australia due to family access issues.  Whether that statistic is accurate or not.  Whether its one or twenty one it is too many.

This song was written after reading a couple of handwritten notes by fathers who suicided after being denied the right to see their children.

Far too often the courts side with the mother as a matter of course.  Thats not to say mothers shouldn't have custody.  Equally, fathers, the majority of them deserve the same rights as mothers.  Kids need both parents if they are to grow into happy healthy adults.

21 Sons.  For all the dads who didn't make it.  We remember you.

Saul Behan-Dunne: guitars, organ, vocals
Brett Carnes:  drums
James Garner: bass

One Night of Her Life.mp3

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