Paul Armfield
Up Here
After a few years in revolutionary eastern Europe, Paul Armfield returned to his beloved Isle of Wight to get married, have children, sell books and write songs.
His first album ‘Songs Without Words’ was released in 2003 to wide critical acclaim, his voice being compared to the likes of Cat Stevens and Nick Drake and the music being described as ‘folk noir’.
With his new album ‘Up Here’ Paul has returned to the scale and ambition of his debut album, but with an added confidence and verve. For those familiar with his work there are still equal measures of Americana, French chansons and English folk, but there are new sounds from further afield, with his familiar array of acoustic instrumentation (accordion, double bass, guitar, piano, mandolin) being supplemented with kora, hammer dulcimer, sitar, charanga and oud.
Paul describes ‘Up Here’ as “the high point of middle age, the peak, the summit you can straddle looking down one side on youth with old age and death on the other. It’s a unique perspective and one which I enjoy.â€
Will appeal to fans of Richard Hawley, John Martyn and Nick Drake.
Tracklist
Shhh
The Morning After The Storm Migration
You Will Be Loved Again
The First
This Photograph Is My Proof
The Bell-Ringer’s Hands
The Speed Of Clouds
Dust / Rust / Trust
My Apology
Passed
Up Here
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