Emily Bronte, Helen Chadwick, e e cummings, Lady Dedlock, Errol Flynn, M. R. James, Margot Kidder, Franz Marc, Rev. Charles Maturin, Ann Peebles and Arthur Russell.
Musician/artist David Turpin's first record, "The Sweet Used-To-Be", was among the most critically acclaimed Irish débuts of 2008. In October 2009, he will release his second album, the supernaturally-themed "Haunted!"
David started the album at home, continued it in a secluded cottage in rural Carlow with Derek Dodd, and finished it with Stephen Shannon in his rather more urbane studio. Conor O’Brien of Villagers plays guitar on four songs and sings on a fifth. Cathy Davey sings on one song. Cora Venus Lunny plays violin and viola on seven songs. The lovely Carla Amelia Gallagher provides backing vocals, and the hounds of hell also make an appearance. All the songs touch, to a greater or lesser degree, on spooks, spectres, and transfiguration.
Songs from "Haunted!" will manifest on David's MySpace music player in July. In the meantime, you can acquire the "The Sweet-Used-To-Be" at:
"Deliciously dark and dreamy [...] Already sounds like one of the albums of the year" - Nick Kelly, Irish Independent
"Deploying a wintery warble and gently chiming synths, he's produced a singular debut, a record steeped in bathos and mystery" (****) - Hot Press
"Truly different [...] likely to be among the best Irish albums released this year" - John Meagher, Irish Independent
"The best Irish album I've heard this year" - Martin Burns, News of the World
"Gorgeously stark debut album [...] a super-introverted fusion of Prince and Leonard Cohen" (****) - Metro
"Glistens with whimsical electro-folk [...] A boy whose heart unashamedly beats pop" - State
"Confident, endearing and just a little bit different [...] he could be the love child of the Pet Shop Boys and a Velvet Underground slow number" - The Irish Times
"This year’s most strikingly original Irish album" - Analogue Magazine
"With the release of this excellent debut, his hour has surely come" (****) - Sunday Business Post
hi Dave, got your songs in my head! (and thats a good thing)I had a listen to T. M. C., really cool. we're playing a gig in the lower deck on saturday if you're around.
Hope you are well. I hear you are workling on a new record ... great news. Inspired (slightly) by White Lemonade, I've written a new song called The Lemonade Man. It's on our profile, hope you like it.
hello dave, hows everything with you. i saw this today and it reminded me of you. all good with me. berlin is chily but beautiful! i heard all the young boys when i was back at christmas! be well! davex http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=nyFH4S76ErU
I'm honoured! You're the gravy on my biscuits, my darling. It will take me some time to come up with an elegy of equal elegance, but mark my words, it'll be a corker...
Hi, 'David Turpin', thanks for the add, I think you good and stuff and your skull is real funnymaybe you come by my page an tell me what you think it's good or bad
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