Lonesome Echoes (Awful Lonesome edition)

by D Rothon

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1.	Thorium Glow 04:44	buy track
2.	Piggery Pokery 03:39	buy track
3.	Scientific Kites & Airship Machines 04:43	buy track
4.	Blake's Folly II 03:06	buy track
5.	Scientific Kites & Airship Machines II 01:29	buy track
6.	The Wagons Roll at Night 04:10	buy track
7.	Here for the Ghost? 02:48	buy track
8.	A Waft of Lavender, a Tang of Sulphur 05:01	buy track
9.	Lonesome 02:34	buy track
10.	Lammas Lands 04:02	buy track

about

The origins of its name lost in the mists of time, the village of Lonesome emerged in the 19th century from the swampy, isolated lands between Streatham Vale and Mitcham Common. By the early 1900s intrepid reporters were already speculating on whether the place was mere myth.

The intervening years saw the rapid rise and fall of Lonesome. Its prospects as a desirable place to live were compromised by the combined fragrances of piggeries plus chemical, fireworks and gas mantle factories – which would undoubtedly have overpowered the sweeter aromas from the nearby lavender fields of Mitcham. It also gained a reputation as a haunt of footpads, vagabonds and cutpurses.

A failed development by one “Squire Blake” of aspirational middle class villas – which became known as Blake's Folly – helped cement Lonesome’s reputation as a ghost town.

Now long subsumed into suburbia, aside from the odd street and building name little trace remains of Lonesome.

Tracks 2, 6, 8 and 10 were issued as an EP by Clay Pipe Music. The remaining tracks are also taken from the Lonesome-inspired sessions.

"Using Omnichord, theremin and pedal steel, the artist plunges the listener into a technicolor soundtrack for a fraying 8mm film." Richard Allen, A Closer Listen

"This beautiful EP is a woozy, melancholy collection for mellotron and pedal steel guitar." Bob Fischer, Fortean Times

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released April 17, 2024

David Rothon: Omnichord, pedal steel, theremin, keyboards, Bentley Rhythm Ace, digital drum programming, acoustic, electric, baritone and bass guitars, Stylophone, percussion, Indian harmonium, harmonica, melodica, banjo

Special thanks to…
Ed Deegan: drums on tracks 3 and 6
Johanna Warren: flute on tracks 8 and 9

Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw

Artwork by Frances Castle (as featured on the original Lonesome Echoes CD)

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D Rothon England, UK

Musician, composer, Clay Pipe Music recording artist. Pedal steel player for the Redlands Palomino Co; have also worked with Lost Horizons, Johanna Warren, Marissa Nadler, the Hanging Stars, Emily Barker, Naomi Bedford and others.
For more from me delve into: secondlanguagemusic.bandcamp.com ... more

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