This is just a cover of Ben Howard's song Promise from his album Every Kingdom, don't really do covers but as I have reached 300 likes on my facebook page I thought I'd mark the occasion 

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Promise- Ben Howard Cover

Armellodie Records is proud to present Dunfermline’s Dan Lyth and the Euphrates with their new album, Benthic Lines, released as a Deluxe book (that’s right, we said book!) with CD and/or download on Monday 12th May 2014.

Dan Lyth was born in the Middle East but has lived most of his life in Dunfermline, Fife. A sound designer by day, Lyth began work on Benthic Lines some five years ago, his intention to record an album entirely outdoors. On rooftops and rowing boats, in forests and high streets, mountains and quarries, ruined churches and beaches, car parks and peat bogs. Anywhere really, as long as it was outside!

Having first had the idea while on a trip to Sierra Leone, Lyth quickly realised that it's one thing to daydream of such a plan whilst in the tropics and quite another to actually attempt it back at home in Scotland. 

“I think some part of me took perverse pleasure in the thought of having to undergo some real physical exertion to make this record. I have also always been drawn to creative work that has taken a considerable amount of effort, and recording an album outdoors whilst living in Scotland with its devious climate seemed to fit the bill.”

In an age when it seems anyone can produce an album in their bedroom, Benthic Lines attempts to re-explore the relationship between music and the environment in which it is created. What happens to a recording when you have no control over the surroundings? What anomalies and accidents may occur? And would it be possible to weave together the unpredictable sounds of these environments with more traditional performances to create a cohesive whole?

As Lyth’s fondness of field recording has grown more ambitious, so too has his talent as a songwriter. Album opener ‘All My Love’ is testament to this, merging the mythological with the reality of the uncertainties that are brought when becoming a father for the first time. The vivid imagery of ‘Four Creatures’, written from the perspective of someone living in Syria, draws upon Islamic and Christian eschatological imagery to startling effect.

The influence of Steve Reich is worth noting, from the repetitive female vocal sounds on ‘Standing Start’ to the cyclic piano and accordion patterns of ‘Super Nature’ and ‘Earth Broke Its Vow’, Lyth is the first to admit of his affection for Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. 

“A big chunk of inspiration came from Steve Reich’s work and one of the main aims of the album in terms of the arrangements was to try and make music that sounds electronic or programmed but is actually all live acoustic instruments.” says Lyth. 

Benthic Lines are the deep sea communication cables through which the world is now connected, and communication is a recurring theme throughout the record ("the cables installed along ocean floors is where we had lived too long for sure" sings Lyth on ‘How It Happened’). How our constant use of communication technology can affect our thought processes and relationships (“We shot some video, scenes that would not be shown, think what you will but the devil’s in the pixels on my phone”, sings Lyth on ‘Four Creatures’).   With recording having taken place in locations as far afield as Morocco, Australia, Turkey and Uganda, Dan is also exploring the lines of human connection and lines of ancestry.

Designed with love by graphic artist Sarah Lyth, the album arrives in a beautifully bound 60-page book and includes photos from the array of recording locations. Cover art from celebrated New York artist Matthew Cusick and an accompanying short story, Already Here, by talented Fifer Craig Rennie complete the desirable artefact that is Benthic Lines. So what has Lyth got to say for himself now that his affair with the great outdoors is almost over.

“After travelling, listening, recording and being constantly surprised over the course of the five years and four continents that I’ve made Benthic Lines, what will really stay with me is not only all the wonderful sounds we heard but also the many inquisitive, open-minded and generous people we met along the way. But it wasn’t all romantic. It’s quite hard work transporting a drum kit to a remote derelict church or dragging a piano out of a small flat. There were broken mic stands, bleeding fingers and failing batteries. And there was rain, a lot of rain.”


DAN LYTH & THE EUPHRATES - All My Love

This is a collection of covers I have recorded acoustically. 

Amie - Damien Rice

Autumn, written by Paolo Nutini

Autumn leaves under frozen souls,
Hungry hands turning soft and old,
My hero cried as we stood out there in the cold,
Like these autumn leaves I don't have nothing to hold.

Handsome smiles, wearing handsome shoes,
Too young to say, though I swear he knew,
And I hear him singing while he sits there in his chair,
While these autumn leaves float around everywhere.

And I look at you, and I see me,
Making love so restlessly,
But now it's quiet and I can hear you saying,
'My little fish don't cry, my little fish don't cry.'

Autumn leaves have faded now,
That smile I lost, well I've found somehow,
Because you still live on in my father's eyes,
These autumn leaves, all these autumn leaves, all these autumn leaves are yours tonight.


Autumn

A cover of a really great song that was fun to put together. Guitar and all vocals were done by me. Hopefully you guys enjoy it. 

Cinder And Smoke

From the upcoming "Party Trick" EP coming May 13th on Dangerbird Records. Preorder at http://smarturl.it/partytrickDL

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Party Trick

Blood Bank (Bon Iver)

The Middle East - Deep water (Cover)

From the upcoming album The Waves, The Wake
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Lyrics
The wire is mended, awaiting the deep
Out on the water we will be set free
Ready to receive
There could be a great glow if the conditions are right
Shot through with light
Moving fast through the swell of the night

I am alone but not alone
I am here but hardly at all
I am alone but not alone
I am here waiting for your call

I contemplate the measure of the sea
I think about the work ahead of me
And figure it must be its own reward
And you would be right to call me wide-eyed
Heart open wide

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The Waves, The Wake

Alone but Not Alone

Written by: Caitlin Linney & Jeff Schoeny
Produced by: Jeff Schoeny

Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fo9hyGbLqvV3aQmKXaVKG?si=DugcWwuHSSG4NsT9FmluAA

Lyrics:
Staying up late
letting you down
changing my ways
to keep you around
i know it dont make a difference now
But I tried 
Oh I tried

Instrumental

You sit by her
holding her hand
Like you held mine
That way back when 
Things were all wrong but still we played pretend 
You were mine
You were mine

Then it all crashed down
Everything we built
Ripped apart, my heart is yours
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you

It’s been some time
Since we got along
I rewrite my past
As I write a new song
And I sing to you even though you are gone
You are gone


Let it all crash down
Everything we built
Ripped apart, my heart is yours
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you my love
I will wait for you 
my 
love

My Love

Stream

anchor. (novo amor)

Matthew Perryman Jones - Only You

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