Anyone that listened to our latest Lost in Transmission Mix (No 61) would have already had a preview of this song. Galway native, Me Auld Flower releases his new single Get Out of California this Friday, 24th July 2020 (on all digital platforms) and while we were impatient to share this track ahead of today, that just goes to show the high regard we place upon the song. So, of course, we are equally excited to now share the accompanying video.
Me Auld Flower wrote the song after coming home to Ireland from the US, having lived there on and off for a number of years. “I’d met a lot of dodgy characters, got myself into some strange situations, and my life had begun to spiral a little bit,” he says. “My relationship at the time had exploded spectacularly and I ended up holed up in a country house in Connemara for my own good with a stray cat I’d just met. Each of us minding the other.”
“I wrote the song on a long summer’s evening, sitting in the upstairs window looking out on the back garden and adjoining churchyard. The sun was setting, the trees were full of birdsong, and the cat, who usually turned tail whenever I picked up the guitar, sat quietly on the windowsill in a kind of unspoken solidarity. It was a really productive and beautiful time in my life during which I wrote most of the album – a potent remedy to what had passed.”
Get Out of California has fast become something of a favourite here on Folk Radio along with debut album ‘The Vaults of Consciousness’ (out now) – an album marked by nostalgia and the supernatural, intricate melodies lead the listener from sparse landscape to stark dreamscape and back again. As well as our latest show, a track from that debut has also featured in Lost in Transmission No 54…we consider that a glowing endorsement. You should all own a copy.
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