On 30th October, Thread Recordings will release Nick Jonah Davis‘ When the Sun Came on LP and digital.
Nick Jonah Davis is a musician and sound engineer based in Derbyshire. His new album, When the Sun Came, is the fourth volume in a series of solo instrumental guitar recordings. It follows House of Dragons (Thread Recordings, 2016), Of Time and Tides (Tompkins Square, 2011), and Guitar Recordings Vol. 1 (2009).
Nick Dellar, a fingerstyle guitarist and Folk Radio UK reviewer, who sadly passed away in 2017, reviewed Nick’s House of Dragons album in 2016, he was always very honest in his reviews and he made it very clear in his final sentence how he felt about the album: “I doubt if I will come across a better album this year if I ever do it will be a considerable piece of work.”
When The Sun Came was self-recorded at the village church in Atlow, and mixed and mastered by Nick at his home nearby. Nathaniel Mann of Dead Rat Orchestra makes an appearance on the album on pigeon whistles on the track Whistle on Woolf. But that is not the track we are sharing with you today. Instead, we have The Peacock Dance:
The Peacock Dance was written for my friend Claire, who hears things no one else does; she has synaesthesia so her senses jumble up. This one took its sweet time to arrive. The basic idea popped out quickly when I tried an old Jack Rose lap steel tuning on a regular guitar. I waited patiently for the rest of it, out on the frets kicking ideas around for years, and eventually the feathers fanned out just right. Solo guitar: not for the impatient.
Nick Jonah Davis
Pre-Order When the Sun Came via Bandcamp and preview two other tracks here today: https://nickjonahdavis.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-sun-came
Links:
http://www.threadrecordings.com/artists/nick-jonah-davis
http://www.nickjonahdavis.com/