...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Requiem Ensanglanté is a neo-progressive rock project from the grit and redbrick of the North of England incorporating elements of Industrial, Electronic, Heavy Metal, Trip Hop, Classical and Folk-Noir influences.
Punchy stream of consciousness tracks interweave with 15 minute progressive soundscapes, synths and guitars mate with strings, brass and woodwinds, hope with angst, love with hate, angels and demons and a host of archetypes take the stage , charting the awakening from youth and the Fool’s journey to old age..
1,000,000 Unsung Words due out at some point in 2024
Links:
Soundcloud – Bandcamp – Hearthis.at
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I had been minded for a while to work on a version of this song. I am not quite sure where/when it entered my head, and it took me a while to think back and actually locate what the song actually is (via The Pogue’s …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Last night was first a 15-minute wait in the pissing rain… For a 3-mile journey on a number 19 bus… To a party in a house nobody knew… And probably shouldn’t go to anyway… …The bible in my pocket and a bottle in my hand… …
Reading Time: 6 minutes So tell us about this new project then? I started writing this about 20 odd years ago – I guess quite a lot was the standard teenage/early 20s angst type stuff – it was all based around leaving Cambridge and moving up to Leeds, growing …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes So. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea …
Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m pretty excited to reveal to you a new project… Over two decades ago I started writing lyrics, charting my story from leaving my Hometown of Cambridge, moving to Leeds and the relationships, adventures, fuckups and learning that I went through. Of course, like many …
