A Song is Way Above the Lawn Karen Peris SKU: BELLA1246V Barcode: 5400863051020 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Bella Union Released Date: 8th October 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “I like that it’s possible to re-travel some of the wide-open expanse of childhood imagination and wonder. The thing is, I don’t really feel that far away from those places even now, and I’m sure that’s a universal thought. The moments I’m telling about in the songs, and the wonder and the curiosity – I still feel so much of it, just as anyone does. I didn’t want to be an adult saying to a child, ‘This is how you feel.’ It’s more like saying, just as a person talking with another person, ‘Isn’t this how we all feel, and isn’t that a mystery of life, too, that we are all so connected?’ So, most of the songs are written in the first person.” Singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter Karen Peris is talking about the ten compositions on her new album, ‘A Song Is Way Above The Lawn’. Written over a period of seven years, these songs make an especially melodic collection of beautifully rendered moments that will resonate with both children and adults. They offer a joy that is often poignant, thanks in part to Peris’ voice and poetry, and to the emotional, sometimes cinematic nature of the piano, central to the album’s sound. Her other instrumentation, chamber-like, with pump organ, accordion and melodica, along with occasional nylon string and electric guitars, is spacious, allowing room for the listener’s own imagination. With the help of her husband Don Peris, who plays drum kit and upright bass, and their son and daughter, who contribute violin and viola to three songs, she has made a timeless album that has a rare and particular atmosphere of its own. Journalists and fellow musicians have long written warmly about the singing and songwriting of Karen Peris with her band The Innocence Mission, which she started in high school with Don Peris. Her lyrics have been called ‘profound’ by Sufjan Stevens, and ‘engaging’ by Natalie Merchant; NPR music critic Lars Gotrich has spoken of the ‘supreme detail’ of her poetry. With ‘A Song Is Way Above The Lawn’, she has combined music and words with her own illustration, to make a sort of picture book in record album form. Throughout, there is an enormous tenderness expressed, for children and families, for the natural world, and for the miraculousness of everyday life. “You know how, if we take a tiny moment of a day and really look into it, it can sort of widen out and we can see how much it holds – I like thinking about that,” she explains, “and of how it can even be a moment when we’re waiting for something else to happen, that can end up being the most memorable.” The entirety of ‘This Is a Song in Wintertime’ is devoted to a single moment when the narrator is waiting in line, outside with her family, and it begins to snow. “And all the people in line start remarking about the snow and we realize a connectedness,” Karen relates, “and strangers talk to us and there’s this feeling, like we all arrived there together, in a sense.” Available to independent retailers on green vinyl. Artist Karen Peris Genre Rock And Pop Label Bella Union Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Superhero To the Library I Would Sing Along For a Giraffe This is a Song in Wintertime Map for the Orange Daylight Sister Birds George in the Car A Song is Way Above the Lawn Flowers Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Jenny Hval The Practice of Love Rock And Pop | Sacred Bones Records | 1LP Released 13th September 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jenny Hval The Practice of Love £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sacred Bones Records SKU: SBR229LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blind Melon Blind Melon Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 12th December 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blind Melon Blind Melon £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1100 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th December 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View White Flowers Within A Dream EP Rock And Pop | Tough Love | 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released 11th June 2021 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders White Flowers Within A Dream EP £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tough Love SKU: TLV135 Formats: 12", Coloured Vinyl, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 11th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Half-handed Cloud Flutterama Rock And Pop | Asthmatic Kitty Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th June 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Half-handed Cloud Flutterama £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records SKU: AKR147LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beach Boys, The Surfer Girl Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beach Boys, The Surfer Girl £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4796992 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kinks, The Live In San Francisco 1969 Rock And Pop | London Calling | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th May 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kinks, The Live In San Francisco 1969 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: London Calling SKU: LCLPC5055 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Whitney Houston Whitney Rock And Pop | Arista | 1LP Released 23rd October 2023 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Whitney Houston Whitney £12.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Arista SKU: nn274823 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Lilly Hiatt Royal Blue Rock And Pop | Normal Town | 1LP Released 3rd June 2016 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lilly Hiatt Royal Blue £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Normal Town SKU: NTR2009 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Domino | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 22nd February 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors – Indies Only £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP325X Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Graham's picks View Product Quick View Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary) Rock And Pop | Virgin | 1LP, 3LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th January 2020 £19.00 - £58.00 Select options Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary) £19.00 - £58.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Formats: 1LP, 3LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th January 2020 Read More Select options See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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