'Travels from your armchair' is the first album by The Bookshop Band. It contains all the songs written for Season One of the author events at Mr Bs Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs were all inspired by folk tales from around the world.
The limited edition bespoke case is designed by the band, is numbered, and printed on an old letterpress in Oxford.
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There once lived a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, Psyche. She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Venus was very jealous, and asked her son Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When he saw how beautiful she was, Cupid dropped the arrow meant for her and pricked himself, and fell in love with her.
Despite her great beauty no-one wanted to marry Psyche for fear of Venus’ vengeance. Instead her parents were told that she was destined to marry a monster, and they were to take her to the top of a mountain and leave her there. But the west wind wafted her away to a palace, and when night came she was visited by her new husband. He only ever visited her by night, and told her, she must never try to look on him.
Her husband was kind and gentle with her, and she was happy in the palace, her every desire met, but Psyche grew homesick. When her sisters came to visit, they were jealous of her palace and thought her husband must be a beast, as he couldn’t let Psyche see him. So they persuaded her to take a lamp and discover if this was true. When the light shone she discovered that her husband was in fact the beautiful Cupid himself. She was so surprised she dripped some hot wax onto his shoulder, waking him. He took in the situation at a glance and immediately left Psyche and the magnificent palace she had been living in disappeared, and Psyche was left to roam the land looking for her lost love.
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Three daughters, beauty untold
But one among them, the people held up to behold
A beauty so pure and new.
The people strew her with gifts and praise
They didn’t see a deep anger brewing, a jealous heart
Her admirers parted, for the locks and the curls.
Am I Venus to be eclipsed by a mortal girl.
And she wanders, burdened and alone
Her heart plundered by a jealous god
Her true beauty was lost and left unknown
In her palace she sat, until dark,
Her love, true love, gave her back her heart
And in the morning parted
Darkness keeping their love true
And the people they couldn’t see
They said that he must be revealed
And doubt grew,
In her mind and body,
That knew so well the smell of you
And one fateful night she unveiled Love
And love fell and love fell.
All she had was, falling back from her
All she wanted, keep herself under
In the darkness, their love was strong and true
All she had was falling back from her
And she wanders burdened and alone
Her heart plundered by a jealous God
Her beauty it was lost, left unknown.
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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a large chunk of the album resonates with me, love for the hills, mountains, coastline and particularly the north of Britain. Delivered with a wonderful voice and wonderful accompanying music. We found Iona by mistake on a search, so glad we did! scotch_single_malt
British folk musician Tom Nash built these delicate and moving songs around a broken harmonium, allowing its limitations to open up worlds. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 12, 2021