Handiwork, by Michael Fearn

Handiwork

by Michael Fearn

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1.	Playing Hookey* 02:40	buy track
2.	Place de l’Hotel de Ville. 04:29	buy track
3.	Murphy’s Law. 03:59	buy track
4.	Clockwork* 03:44	buy track
5.	Dreams and Fantasies 02:41	buy track
6.	As ordinary as Judgment Day 04:40	buy track
7.	Forgetting 02:41	buy track
8.	Waves* 03:41	buy track
9.	Stones* 04:07	buy track
10.	Industry* 03:00	buy track
11.	Sunset* 03:48	buy track

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Handiwork Track by track:

1) Playing Hookey. In a previous life as a secondary school teacher in Dagenham, there was only one day that I started out for work and decided to play truant. This tune is about that feeling. Mind you, there isn’t a lot of mischief you can get up to in Ilford on a Monday morning!

2) Place de l’Hotel de Ville. Some of you will know that I have spent a lot of time in the France over the years, gigging and just on holiday. This is a very slightly fictionalized account of some of what I have been told.

3) Murphy’s Law. A song about the underachieving demon who is responsible for such annoyances as the toast falling jam-side-down.

4) Clockwork A tune in a vaguely Latin–American idiom. The name was suggested by the son of a friend who said that the regularity of the piece reminded him of the motion of a wind-up clock, or an orrery.

5) Dreams and fantasies. ‘We do whatever gets us through the day…’

6) As Ordinary As Judgment Day. It’s difficult to explain this one, as there are all sorts of threads. I suppose it’s about public and private morality. You decide.

7) Forgetting. Written after reading about (and talking to) those involved in war and traumatic events; and no, it isn’t autobiographical!

8) Waves This and the next three pieces are from the same interconnected, instrumental work inspired by the Cornish landscape and environment.

9) Stones
10) Industry
11) Sunset

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released October 5, 2015

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Michael Fearn England, UK

Michael Fearn is originally from Kendal in South Cumbria, where he cut his musical teeth in the Folk clubs of the Lake District. He comes from the same tradition that produced such artists as the late Isaac Guillory and John Renbourn, to whom he has been compared...
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