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01. GRAND SALVO - The old woman and the boy.
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02. GRAND SALVO - She woke at three with a thumping heart: she had dreamed once more of the night they met. (19th of May, 1928, Chateau de Chaalis, Seine-et-Marne)
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03. GRAND SALVO - She was also watching on the occasion of his first break in. His face was lit by the moon, and was so familiar she thought he was a ghost. She listened to him moving about the house, and when he fell
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04. GRAND SALVO - She quietly makes her way down the stairs as he rummages away in the room.
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05. GRAND SALVO - She stands in the dark for a long time.
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06. GRAND SALVO - Two cups sit on the table, the kettle is on and the toast is toasting. As the sky lightens she falls for a third time.
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07. GRAND SALVO - He raises her gently into a chair. She tells him how to make a sling for her arm using a tea towel. As he works she marvels at his face.
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08. GRAND SALVO - They sit facing each other at the kitchen table. He notices she is missing a finger.
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09. GRAND SALVO - "What's that in your pocket?" "A photo" "Of who?" "I dont know"
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10. GRAND SALVO - With the photograph lying between them, she tells him her story and they talk for a long time.
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11. GRAND SALVO - The boy's story of his faithful family dog.
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12. GRAND SALVO - The story of May 20th, 1929.
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13. GRAND SALVO - How, three days later, she wandered heartbroken and ruined into a mountain village. Overlooking the village was an Abbey.
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14. GRAND SALVO - The lament of the regretful ghost.
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15. GRAND SALVO - She asks him to pack her a bag for hospital. In her bedroom he finds a great wardrobe filled with all the beautiful clothes of her youth. He also finds a single suit.
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16. GRAND SALVO - He leads her by the arm in the old manner out into the music and the dancing light. She asks him, so he whispers something he thinks he might have said. She closes her eyes tight then, and when she op
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ARTIST
GRAND SALVO
TITLE
Slay Me in My Sleep
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
PRESERVATION
CATALOG #
PRE 035CD
PRE 035CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/31/2012
The Preservation label presents
Slay Me in My Sleep
, the sixth album from Melbourne's
Grand Salvo
. Under the guise of Grand Salvo,
Paddy Mann
has established himself as a songwriter of unique heart and soul with a depth of lyricism matched by warm but widescreen musical vision. 2009's
Soil Creatures
sealed his reputation, being his most stark and concise statement yet.
With Slay Me in My Sleep
, Mann has returned to familiar territory, writing a parable as song cycle similar to his epic fairytale from 2008,
Death
. An evocation of time and memory, it is a tale of star-crossed lovers. A delinquent boy breaks into an old woman's home and discovers an antique photo of a girl. He instantly falls in love. After the old woman scares him off, though, he eventually returns, consumed and obsessed by the girl in the photo. The old woman is waiting, and so it begins. It is a lavishly decorated and unabashed romantic melodrama, set to exquisite strings (cello, violin and harp), dancing woodwinds and searching brass. Within these gorgeous orchestrations, tracing around the folk song idiom are intimate narratives of unqualified affection and compelling emotion.
Slay Me in My Sleep
also marks the first use of an electric guitar in any Grand Salvo recording.
Slay Me in My Sleep
was largely recorded and co-produced in Berlin by composer
Nils Frahm
, who has worked extensively with similarly singular artists such as
Peter Broderick
and
Greg Haines
. His masterful piano-playing appears throughout, alongside vocal contributions by
Heather Woods Broderick
,
Laura Jean
and
Luluc
's
Zoe Randall
. After the masterful
Soil Creatures
, Paddy Mann has once extended himself on
Slay Me in My Sleep
, telling a tale of strange love with vivid detail, whimsy and beauty, in a special way only he knows how.
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