From out of woods, over lakes and hills,
and into the early morning streets where
you walked, emerged a mist of beautiful
sadness...
'The Spirit Of Elegy' is Sonny's second album,
and was released in September 2008, four
years after his debut 'Twilight-World Music'.
His first single 'Frost Fair' was released in Feb
2009. New songs are being composed for an E.P.
which will appear next year, as well as a volume
of lyrics and photographs. Until then...
"Sonny's debut (single) is definitely the stuff of daydreams...
...and comes complete with outstanding vocals that can carry
the weight of a heavy heart, no problem"
Michael Roberts, High Voltage
"'Frost Fair' is as good as it gets; modern 'classical' music for the
heart and soul, a kind of contemporary overture for the mind"
Peter J Brown
"Evocative of a misty Victorian morning over the Thames...
...Beautiful and completely unlike anything else you are likely
to hear at the moment"
Tasty Fanzine
"Chillingly beautiful"
The Epileptic Gibbon
"Something rather different, uplifting sadness, cinematic...
words that point you vaguely in a direction without really doing
this beautifully fragile single any kind of justice"
Organ Magazine
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'The Spirit Of Elegy'
1. The Mourning Mist
2. Frost Fair (London Elegy)
3. Earth And Dust
4. Lighthouses For The Desolate
5. The Body Attains The End Which Comes To Us All
6. The Affliction Of Childhood
7. Solace
8. The Spirit Of Elegy
9. Anthem For Radiant Trees
10. Rhapsody (After The Teares)
CD (with 12 page booklet of calligraphic lyrics and photos)
available from
The special edition numbered box included the CD,
a lithographic poster and a handmade card signed
in gold ink. This edition was strictly limited for those
who desired some extra pieces of work with their CD.
Future releases will follow this example in creating an
artefact that compliments the music.
Quotes from reviews and comments
"'The Spirit Of Elegy' dares to go further
than most artists will endeavour...
...Sonny offers us a chance to listen to
something unique"
Tom Victor, Glasswerk
"A highly complex, reverential album...
the world outside may well pause while
you listen"
Liam Pennington, High Voltage
"It doesn't conform to anything that is going
on elsewhere and for that you deserve great
credit"
Simon Raymonde, Bella Union
"'The Spirit Of Elegy' is an oddity"
Anthony Dhanendran, Penny Black Music
"Sonny could be the unborn child of Cocteau Twins
and William Blake, or the male alter ego of Kate Bush
or even the long gone brother of Sigur Ros"
Elafini, Muzine Magazine
"It is heartfelt, spaced out and cinematic. It is lush
and delicate and centered...'The Spirit Of Elegy' is
one to stick on the record player"
Nicole Farrell, Bearded Magazine
"Something quite unusual and different, special and ethereal"
Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6Music
"Refined, crafted, restrained...splendidly exquisite
and warmly recommended"
Sean Worrall, Organ Magazine
"Moving, sacred and at times heartbreaking, 'The Spirit Of Elegy'
glows with a warmth that its creator has etched into every track"
Carl Williams, Last Broadcast
"A crepuscular album"
Chris Evans, 'The Curve Ball' WCR-FM
"It's rare that something comes along that is so far from the mainstream that it becomes hard to describe or draw realistic
parallels to"
Laura R, The-Mag
"Each song is a masterpiece in its own right, sparkling in unison
as the album pulls together...something with such melancholy
beauty shouldn't be left in the dark"
Olivia Jaremi, Tasty Fanzine
"Luscious and hypnotic...beautifully weird and wonderful...
the tracks unfold gracefully but poignantly and swill around
the room cocooning the listener in rich and warm sound"
Toxic Pete
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'Twilight-World Music'
1. Oneness I (Inner Ear Spectrum)
2. Places For Healing
3. (a) Pyaasa (b) She Moved Through The Fair
4. The Presence Of Blue Light
5. Twilight/Live In The World
6. Stillness: Luminosity At Dawn
7. Twilight Revisited
8. Oneness II (The Life Of Scattered Stones)
^*Blow the world apart with the press of a button We all say it shouldn't but we know it will happen Again and again like the rain and the ark Onwards forever eternally dark Eternally dark...*^
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide. There are a hundred places where I fear To go - so with his memory they brim. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him.
~There's life without living Conflicting truth and lies Forgiven and Forgiving Seeing is believing But I don't know what I'm feeling Confusion breeds delusion My emotions are deceiving This is my Hymn Noir~
.The loneliness defines you, Inside this hectic world & you can find me Untrue to all your stupid rules. The rules that make it easy, The rules that make you sure ! I rather break in pieces , I rather stay the fool..
I shall not speak, I shall think about nothing :
But endless love will mount in my soul
And I shall travel far, very far, like a gipsy,
Through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman...(Arthur Rimbaud)
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"Darling, it makes me afraid of you. Afraid of your penetration and loveliness and genius.... Only if I had read it without knowing you, I should be frightened of you." (letter to Virginia Woolf after returning from Teheran, 1927, referring to To The Lighthouse)
