James Blackshaw
Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death (CD)
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Important is proud to welcome back James Blackshaw for his first full length on Important since his breakthrough album O True Believers was released in 2006. James has since forged a remarkable career achieving critical praise for his dexterity, his deep, connected songwriting and his beautiful arrangement.
Written at a time of great emotional disquiet, the hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet ninth full-length studio album, Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, from British guitarist-composer James Blackshaw was recorded at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago in December 2011 by engineer Andrew Hernandez (Balmorhea). The six original pieces contained on the album (whose titles are lovingly misappropriated from those of short stories by the late, great science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr., AKA Alice B. Sheldon) are based alternately around nylon-string classical guitar and grand piano, with spare and subtle vibraphone and B3 organ parts overdubbed by Blackshaw himself. Geneviève Beaulieu (Menace Ruine/Preterite) adds her stunning and powerful voice and words to track And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways. Love Is the Plan... is an incredibly warm and intimate recording and perhaps Blackshaw's most concise, consistent and overtly melodic to date.
Format
Packaged in a clear-tray Digipak.
All music composed by James Blackshaw.
Published by Tompkins Square Music Publishing (Administered by Spirit One Music) (BMI).
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Andrew Hernandez with James Blackshaw at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago, December 16-19, 2011.
Artwork: Yu Matsuoka Pol.
Photo: Julie Probert
Layout: IMPREC
Release notes
Packaged in a clear-tray Digipak. All music composed by James Blackshaw. Published by Tompkins Square Music Publishing (Administered by Spirit One Music) (BMI). Recorded, mixed & mastered by Andrew Hernandez with James Blackshaw at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago, December 16-19, 2011. Artwork: Yu Matsuoka Pol. Photo: Julie Probert Layout: IMPREC
| 1 | Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death | 8:02 | |
| 2 | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | 7:07 | |
| 3 | And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways | 5:08 | |
| 4 | A Momentary Taste Of Being | 5:25 | |
| 5 | We Who Stole The Dream | 7:18 | |
| 6 | The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone | 5:49 |
- Yu Matsuoka Pol
- Artwork By
- James Blackshaw
- Composed By, Guitar [Loriente Clarita Nylon-String Guitar], Grand Piano [Chickering Grand Piano], Vibraphone [Musser Vibraphone], Organ [Hammond B3 Organ], Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By
- IMPREC
- Layout
- Julie Probert
- Photography By
- Andrew Hernandez
- Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By
- Geneviève Beaulieu
- Voice, Words By
