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The record, a rich and vivid exploration of city of Birmingham and surrounding areas of the English Midlands, features the words of friend and poet Darren Cannan set to James Summerfield’s striking yet elegant take on Americana.

Lyrically, Analogue Tales: Sounds From Arden covers ground familiar to most residents of the city, with the Jewellery Quarter, Longbridge Rover car plant, the M42, Ladywood, Birmingham city centre and Sutton Coldfield featuring in the allegories, observations, asides and stories that make up the album.

The extraordinary pictures of the region’s people, landscapes and identity has further detail added by the voices of guest narrators: The Beat frontman Ranking Roger, broadcaster Robin Valk, James Summerfield’s grandmother Marjorie Summerfield, authorsMike Gayle and Catherine O’Flynn, and songwriter and actor Paul Murphy.

lyrics

Twilight rain is sprayed on the sweaty pewter-stained window panes
from Portuguese man o’ war clouds,

The entrails of the North Works and South Works being gnawed nightly by rats
Decaying veins of computer cables of Austin’s motor masterplan
So the feral cats go hunting - working for the rat race

Feline after beast after dark: a manmade Mother Nature hunt
Humans hail the feral outsiders as ‘miniature lions’
And they wait and claw, and claw, and wait
Standing with stillness
by the toilet door
Scanning the tea-coloured urinal,
Silently moving on down the oily corridor

The rats days were numbered, but then so were the feral cats,
Because the plant’s owners see their pest controllers
As an untidy and unnecessary waste of cash

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from Analogue Tales: Sounds From Arden, released June 22, 2015
James Summerfield
Darren Cannan
Simon Fox
Richard Pharaoh
Craig Hamilton
David Booth
Katherine Griffiths

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SPANISH CASTLES- AKA James Summerfield England, UK

James Summerfield returns after a few years of side-project distraction. There’s a new line up and a 7th studio album, THEM (Say ‘Aargh’ Records 2023)

James’ music career began in the band Buick 6, later renamed The Toques. They recorded 2 John Peel.

James would go on to release 7 studio albums and played with the likes of Alistair Roberts, John Renbourne, Scott Matthews and Joanna Newsom. ... more

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