The Wave Pictures, industrious and prolific as ever, return this week on Thursday 18 November with their new single ‘This Heart Of Mine’. The single follows two albums, ‘Look Inside Your Heart’ and ‘Brushes With Happiness’, released in 2018. The latter of which was described by Folk Radio’s Thomas Blake as an album of raw emotion and even rawer musicianship from one of the UK’s most underrated bands.
This Heart of Mine is the first track to be made available from their new double album ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’, due for 2022 and to mark the announcement is accompanied by a video below. It’s the first of four seasonal offerings for the album made by Nina Garthwaite (an artist and documentary radio and film maker, teacher and curator) who shared the following on the video:
“The week I made it, autumn was at its best, sunny and cold with long shadows. The best thing about autumn is that the days somehow feel like they contain all the autumn days that ever were, just right for a song about memories and time.
“I’m still exploring animation and this is much more multimedia in style than I’ve done so far – there are mono-prints, photos, paintings and photocopies and I probably got over-excited about the flicker technique! It is also inspired a lot by the bonkers collage posters Franic likes to do.
“Towards the end, when when the band appears as if inside a planet, brings to mind how long it’s been since they have been able to tour properly. Hopefully, by the time the album is released, they’ll be back, rocking, doing what they love.”
With a nuance of autumn, ‘This Heart Of Mine’ references time and space travel & memory all rolled into one. Musically inspired by classic Neil Young, ‘This Heart Of Mine’ witnesses The Wave Pictures going full-on country and features cowboy harmonica from Dominic ‘Hotdog’ Brider, Franic Rozycki on mandolin, alongside Dave Tattersall’s gentle acoustic guitar strum.
With curation playing as much a part in the video as filmmaking, the combination makes for a gorgeous audio-visual delight – and a reminder of how great it is to have The Wave Pictures back.
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Formed over twenty years ago by Franic Rozycki and David Tattersall in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, and joined by Jonny ‘Hudderfield’ Helm since 2005, The Wave Pictures have released over twenty albums of their own, along with exciting side projects such as garage rock supergroup The Surfing Magazines, several albums with Stanley Brinks, and Dave’s recent guitar contributions to Billy Childish albums, with whom they also collaborated on their 2014 album ‘Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon’. Across these varied releases, accommodating Dave’s free-flowing fountain of songwriting, The Wave Pictures have shown their deep affection for rock and roll, blues, jazz, classic rock, and of course Dave’s legendary love of good guitar solo.
Don’t miss their upcoming Christmas show on 13th December at The Lexington in London (Tickets).
More here: http://www.thewavepictures.com/