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Short Stories

by Joe Adrift

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  • Compact Disc (CD)

    CD comes in a limited edition signed and numbered drypoint etching sleeve on Fabriano card. Limited to 289 original etchings, designed, made and individually hand printed by Joe Adrift. Buy here and you'll have it through the letterbox in a few days!
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1.
One Of A Hundred Lost Songs 01:36
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2.
Black Bird Land 02:49
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3.
Opa 01:32
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4.
Haslam Walking 08:55
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5.
Capital Letters/Stick To The Fucking Wall 04:00
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6.
Shades Of Brown & Rounded Corners 01:32
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7.
Two Of A Hundred Lost Songs 02:12
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8.
I Dont Think You Understand 02:15
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9.
Chrysalis2 06:51
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10.
Peru 00:47
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11.
You Will Find It Anywhere You Look 03:22
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12.
Children's Story For Animation Or A Clumsy Love Story 02:09
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about

As I slip this beautifully packaged cd into my boom box, the most relentless rain and hail unexpectedly rears its ugly head. The first few notes resonate through my speakers and everything makes sense. Short Stories by Joe Adrift is a soundtrack to what’s going on in his mind, out my window, anywhere. The imaginatively played guitar accompanies day to day life and personal thoughts perfectly; it is the noise the sparse and rural countryside would make if it had opposable thumbs.

Known to his parents as Daniel Irving, this young fella demonstrates his brooding and patient guitar work across the album, but most notably on the fourth track, Haslam Walking. Starting with the kind of slow passages Low made their own with The Curtain Hits the Cast, the track takes you away from the world for the 9 minutes it sits in front of you, not a single note is wasted and the varying techniques used on his colourfully painted child’s axe keep you not only interested, but completely immersed and engaged in the sounds issuing forth.

While pigeon-holing this into a genre would almost certainly be criminal, the influence from the pioneers of 60s/70s folk such as John Martyn, Bert Jansch and Nick Drake can be seen sporadically throughout. His arrangements take a more classical/post-rock route in that there are rarely motifs; each phrase leads to another and rarely returns.

This isn’t the kind of album I’d expect many to understand or even like. But for the minority who appreciate largely instrumental passages, dynamic and rhythmical acoustic guitar, the occasional vocal warble and the ability Joe Adrift has to tell such a vivid story with no words at all, Short Stories will be your cup of tea in the morning and your nip of whiskey at night.
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"I think of these songs as short stories, or music for films that exist in my head, i hope you can see them some day" DI

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released April 1, 2012

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