View basket “The Best Of” has been added to your basket. 2013 Meilyr Jones SKU: MOSHILP68 Barcode: 5414939933141 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi Released Date: 15th March 2016 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Moshi Moshi records are thrilled to announce the release of 2013, the debut album of MEILYR JONES. “I conceived of the record as a compilation of myself, over the period of a year,” says Meilyr Jones. “As an anthology, a collection of my songs and of what happened to me in that year.” The year in question was 2013, a curious time in Jones’s life, when the weeks were scored by loss and pleasure and revelation, and when he made a short but transformative trip to Rome, drawn by a fascination with sculpture and Byron and Berlioz, and by a desire “to see something new and different.” In Italy he lived differently. “I’d go out every day, walking for hours, go to churches, just to see paintings,” he says. He spoke no Italian but lived with Romans, joining them for late night dinners and early morning drinking, and in that way of living he found “There was this spirit – that again I’d felt in Byron’s poetry – that was sweet but also really resilient.” The songs that emerged from that time proved quite different to anything he had written before; 13 songs in which joy and rapture are tempered by wit and keen-eyed humour, by jubilant pop melody and rock and roll muscularity. Returning to London, he decided to set about recording. Five of the songs he had conceived as orchestral pieces, and so he assembled a 30-strong orchestra “out of friends, and friends of friends of friends,”. There was a saxophonist, a bassoonist, a clarinetist, some classical players, jazz, brass, a French harpist, and Lucy Mercer from Stealing Sheep on drums. Over the course of a day they recorded the main body of the tracks Olivia, Return to Life, Passionate Friend, Rome and Be Soft, the songs later embellished with further additions – a community choir in Glasgow, field recordings of birds, three trombonists recorded in a cemetery, among them. “I wanted to make something that felt right to me and expressed my interests, which are classical music and rock‘n’roll music, and films, and nature and karaoke, and tacky stuff,” Jones says. “And I wanted to capture that feeling in Rome of high culture and low-brow stuff all mixed together.” What Italy gave him was the notion of a “rich internal life” to be explored: the quiet contemplation of a church at midday, the wonder of sculptural form, a desire for grace, epic poetry and baroque violin. The collection of songs that it led to are as various, unusual, and contrary as all of the pieces that make up a person. It is the sound of a young man discovering just who he is. Artist Meilyr Jones Genre Rock And Pop Label Moshi Moshi Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1 How To Recognise A Work of Art 2 Don Juan 3 Passionate Friend 4 Refugees 5 Rome 6 Rain In Rome 7 Strange Emotional 8 Return To Life 9 Love 10 Olivia 11 Featured Artist 12 Be Soft Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Roxette Look Sharp Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th October 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Roxette Look Sharp £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 5054197081354 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View KNEECAP Fine Art Rock And Pop | Heavenly | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th June 2024 £23.00 Select options KNEECAP Fine Art £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th June 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Phil Manzanera & Andy Mackay Christmas -Mackay & Manzanera Feat. 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