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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is The Bookshop Band's 4th album of 2012. It represents the songs inspired by Season Four of the author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights, and contains songs inspired by books, including Alexandra Fuller's two autobiographical works - "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight" & "Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness", Carol Birch's seafaring adventure 'Jamrach's Menagerie', Andrew Miller's Costa winning novel 'Pure', and 'Dark Matter' by Michelle Paver.

    The album comes in a numbered limited edition bespoke package, created by the band, all hand printed on an old letterpress machine.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Into the farthest reaches via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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This song was inspired by Jamrach's Menagerie, by Carol Birch. See the live version here: vimeo.com/30924451

lyrics

Gold and Black

Born to a cot in Bermondsey
Sailors song for a bedtime story
Reborn in a tigers mouth
Dragged into a brand new land

The Sailors song
Pumping my blood from before I was born
And the big black sea,
Filled, my dreams

Finger tips, shiny black, wrinkled bricks
Rutted horse shit, jagged lanes, bent elbows,
crooked knees streets, heavy smells

Crossed you as you passed
Weighing your senses down

Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid

And above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
And it is here, that my future starts
And is to be with the crimson beasts
And the wings that beat
Blood red as the black sea fills my head
And the sailors song pumping my blood
From before I was born
And the black sea, has seen and soaked through me

Oh and above all this rang the sound
Of voices wild and dark
Melodies in flight, tiptoeing,
Above the sight of us
And I imagine myself far away
Somewhere hot and strange
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid
Where the cats are painted gold and black
And I am not afraid

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from Into the farthest reaches, released June 18, 2012

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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more

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