My Glass World: ‘Tree Shadow Piano’ provides both thorn and rose in a spiky but sweet collection
| ‘Tree Shadow Piano.’ by My Glass World is released on 22 September 2022 on Luxury Noise Records. Previous tracks from the band have been championed at radio by, amongst others, Guy Garvey and the late great Janice Long. The project is the brainchild of Jamie Telford who has written and recorded alongside a range of talents from Paul Weller to Richard Strange. Along the way, he trained as a classical composer and had work performed by the NYO and Southbank Sinfonia. The album features, amongst others, Sean Read who played sax and woodwind is heavily featured, and worked with Jamie on production and mixing. His previous musical credits include Edwyn Collins, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, and recently Dave Gahan and the Soulsavers to name but a few. As the title perhaps suggests, ‘Tree Shadow Piano.’ was willed into existence from a variety of sources and under various environmental constraints. Far from emerging from late night jam sessions [although created by a collective], here a series of vocal fragments, musical moments and unusual quirks were hammered out into fully-formed songs at a slight remove. An element of social distance was involved: sometimes having more time adds a twist of contemplation. Jamie himself says, “Plagues tend to promote disruption and change, and without being too ironic – death. In the case of ‘Tree Shadow Piano’ mercifully no one went west. Metaphorically perhaps. This album is a jaundiced, jowly look at what’s going on in the world. We are all subject to the same forces, but sometimes the toothpaste forced out of the tube displays itself in different forms.” The constraints of lockdown may ironically have provided the key to open this particular treasure chest, an artistic vision born in isolation and reconstituted over the wires. ‘Tree Shadow Piano’ is a collection of material largely written under Lockdown in Scotland, and refined and polished in Seans “Famous Times” Studio in Clapton, when Lockdown was lifted ‘Tree Shadow Piano’ is not a protest album, but many of these heartfelt songs vibrate to an inbuilt rage at the geo-political process. Let it howl, sit back and enjoy.  |
