Leyland Kirby - We Drink to Forget the Coming Storm

Leyland Kirby just released a 40 track pay what you want on Bandcamp cos he's awesome.

'We drink to forget the coming storm'' is collection of forty tracks released on my fortieth birthday.

For just forty days and forty nights it is available for free (and for a donation) as a thank-you for your support and interest in my works.

For those wishing to pay for this album you can.

As this is released for my birthday I would suggest the price of a birthday whisky to be a fair price for this collection should you wish to pay. Then I feel we will raise the virtual glass connected together for good health and fortunes.

Running in total at over three hours. It is not a fixed release and should be used sparingly in your own favourite track combinations.

It can be used to uplift on the low days, to gain strength and clear the mind. Each track combines the same elements piano, digital strings and synthesized choir. There are dark twists and light passages. It leads you somewhere whilst going nowhere.

A reflection of a time passing, a glimpse back into my own past, a look forward into the forthcoming abyss. Recorded through the darkest night hours during periods of disillusionment. There were no second takes, so we enjoy the errors and misadventures.

Like life itself wrong notes may be hit, there maybe the odd distortion, melodies drift and we hope to gain strength from the introspective nature of the work. We cover no new ground. We wear our hearts on our sleeves.

Wishing you all the best from Krakow where I raise the glass of good spirit.

https://leylandkirby.bandcamp.com/album/we-drink-to-forget-the-coming-storm

Awesome sauce!

Oh. My.

harppy 40 leyland!

Just downloaded.. looking forward to listening, Happy Birthday Mr Kirby!

I hope abdy's buying the lad a whisky, eh?

HBD

  On 5/8/2014 at 9:01 PM, ravedamage said:

I hope abdy's buying the lad a whisky, eh?

 

Yeah I chipped in enough for a wee birthday drink!

Was just listening to Sadly, the Future Is... the other day. Amazing news! Amazing dude!

Fifteen is so beautiful. Thank you Mr Kirby and happy birthday if you ever check in here

oh shit 40 scares the shit out of me.

what a sound guy. gave him 10 quid for a bottle of glenns vodka ;p

dwnldng atm, hppy brthdy lylnd krby. many thx 4 yr music (:

wow, awesome! I just picked up that recent 12" on Apollo which is brilliant. This is most welcome.

Listened to the 1st half of this last night, very nice melancholic ambient. Also excited to hear about the new stuff he has planned and well pleased intrigue and stuff vol 4 is finally on its way! :)

This is just.. wow.

so fucking awesome

Such great and unexpected news, thought he was planning on more Stranger stuff. Will have a good listen shortly.

YES!!!

For a 40-track 3-hour pay-what-you-want release this is amazingly good quality, only given it one run through so far but it sounds up there with 'sadly the future is no longer what it was'.

This is fantastic. Money thrown his way.

I hope to get to such a point in my career that I can release 3 hours of improvisations in harmonic minor.