: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Bill Fay : Album.......: Countless Branches : : Label.......: Dead Oceans .. .:.. . Genre.......: Folk : Catnr.......: DOC211 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2020-01-18 Str.date....: 2020-01-17 Quality.....: 237kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.billfay.co.uk/ ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. In Human Hands 2:19 2. How Long, How Long 2:43 3. Your Little Face 2:44 4. Salt Of the Earth 3:39 5. I Will Remain Here 2:06 6. Filled With Wonder Once Again 3:07 7. Time's Going Somewhere 2:42 8. Love Will Remain 2:24 9. Countless Branches 2:20 10. One Life 2:47 11. Tiny 2:56 12. Don't Let My Marigolds Die (Live In Studio) 2:17 13. The Rooster 3:16 14. Your Little Face (Acoustic Version) 2:18 15. Filled With Wonder Once Again (Band Version) 4:19 16. How Long, How Long (Band Version) 2:43 17. Love Will Remain (Band Version) 2:38 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 47:18 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 84.79 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: It takes courage (or foolhardiness) to present songs in the :, : nude, without any extra embellishments. Get it right, and you : :' might get another Nebraska, World Gone Wrong or Carrie & ': ,: Lowell: a unified set of committed performances that requires :, : nothing extra to compel. Miss the mark, and youÆll wound with a : :' monotonous, flat record, with every fluffed line and derivative ': ,: melody exposed for extra scrutiny. :, : : :' Bill Fay and producer Joshua Henry were absolutely correct to ': ,: strip the ten tunes on Countless Branches to their bare :, : foundations. This is one of those rare records were extra : :' additions aren't just unnecessary; fine as they are, the fuller ': ,: arrangements of some of these same songs included here as bonus :, : tracks suggest that Fay has cooked up material of such elemental : :' and fragile beauty that any additional noises could easily ': ,: scare away the magic. :, : : :' The sessions for Countless Branches were initially aimed at ': ,: crafting the kind of economic and sparse yet nuanced band :, : arrangements that fuelled Fay's first two "comeback" albums, : :' 2012's Life Is People and Who Is The Sender? from 2015 (the ': ,: 75-year old songwriter was dropped by his label after his second :, : album flopped in 1971, only returning to recording after : :' reissues of his early works had picked up the kind of cult ': ,: following that evaded him during his first spell of musical :, : activity). However, it was soon decided that it was wiser to : :' stick to the spirit of Fay's solo piano/vocals home demos. ': ,: :, : The likes of "In Human Hands" feature more silence between the : :' notes than most of us are accustomed to. What initially feels ': ,: challenging in its uncompromising minimalism soon gains a :, : powerful pull and a feeling of ear-cleansing freshness. The : :' stark presentation makes the judiciously administered extra ': ,: instrumentation pack a powerful punch: the cosmic keyboards at :, : the end of "Salt of the Earth" elevate the track's wise and : :' weary beauty to almost unbearable levels of poignancy. When ': ,: drums and percussion pop in on "Your Little Face", it sounds :, : like bombs going off - in a good way. : :' ': ,: It's hard to believe these songs were culled from demos recorded :, : over a number of years, such is the sense of unity and thematic : :' cohesion. Fay's most acclaimed album, 1971's Time of the Last ': ,: Persecution, was fuelled with apocalyptic foreboding and :, : cataloguing what had been lost. Countless Branches is guided by : :' celebrating what still remains: the untainted human spirit, ': ,: natural beauty, the fragility and cyclical nature of life, :, : selfless love. To paraphrase the title of one of the standouts, : :' these are songs filled with wonder, at times - namely the ': ,: quietly majestic closer "One Life"- reminiscent of ageless :, : secular hymns. : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/