The Pearlfishers

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Ring The Bells For A Day

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Released: Jan 1, 2007

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Ring The Bells For A Day
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David Vs Godzilla
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Up With The Larks
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My Dad The Weatherfan
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General Info

Genre: Folk Rock / Indie / Powerpop
Location Falkirk/Glasgow/East Kilbride, Scotland, UK
Profile Views: 69424
Last Login: 1/13/2011
Member Since 5/21/2006
Website http://www.pearlfishers.com
Record Label ..Marina..
Type of Label Indie
Bio
..Wake up everybody, they are back back back..: After an extended hiatus, Glasgow’s The Pearlfishers return refreshed and all improved with ..Up With The Larks.., their sixth album for Marina Records - the latest in a line of orch-pop masterpieces including ..Across The Milky Way.., ..Sky Meadows.. and ..A Sunflower At Christmas... The album is clear evidence that main Pearlfisher ..David Scott.. continues his unique musical journey with renewed joy and verve - and that classic songwriting and well- crafted arrangements are alive and well in 2007. .... .......... Joyous title track, ..Up With The Larks.. kick starts the day, “shattered and blue in splinters and sparks”, rich with trademark Pearlfishers lush vocal harmonies, multi-layered guitar texture, the wild jangle of a battered upright piano and exquisite melodic twists and turns. ..Teenage Fanclub..’s ..Norman Blake.. co-produced four of the album’s cuts, starting with ..The Bluebells.. – not a tribute to once famous Scottish popsters but a beautiful, string-laden rumination on the turning of seasons. .... One act who do indeed receive a full-blooded name-check are Womack And Womack in a song titled, aptly enough, ..Womack And Womack.. which recalls Scott’s early days running with the hawks of the major music industry (“...left the school and joined a band, like other lads across the land, gladly kissed the corporate hand...”). .... Morning breaks again in ..Ring The Bells For A Day.., complete with the glittering Big Star chime of massed Fender Stratocaster, an exultation to “cast the night away”and a line written in tribute to one of Scott’s enduring heroes, Brian Wilson: “Wherever you lie down, wherever you wake up, the world follows”. The Pearlfishers 2006 Japanese tour with BMX Bandits is thrillingly recounted in ..The Umbrellas Of Shibuya.., a song which takes its reference point from Michel Legrand’s classic movie opera “The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg” but locates itself in a Tokyo rainstorm – with neon puddles, painted in Morricone banjos, Sakamoto synth blooms, Nilsson mouth music and, most tellingly, Scott’s truly unique sense of melody and structure. Another highlight is the Randy Newman-esque ..With You On My Mind.. which sounds like a lost Tin Pan Alley classic arranged by Van Dyke Parks. ..London’s In Love.. could be the theme song to an as-yet-to-be-made romantic comedy blockbuster starring the new Cary Grant, set in the “blue black air”of Britain’s capital – full of promise and heartbreak. .... The Pearlfishers, firmly rooted in the classic tradition of three minute cinematics as pioneered by Webb, McCartney and, recently Rufus Wainwright, reach a great finale with the album’s two closing songs: ..Blue Riders On The Range.., a sparkling widescreen epic (sounding like Marvin & Diana doing “RAM”) and the gorgeous, pastoral ..I Just See The Rainbow.. which ends the album on an optimistic note. “And call me cock-eyed if you will, but I don’t see that dark hill, I just see the rainbow...”. The only way is ..UP!.. .... .......... ..David Scott ..toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with ..Norman Blake.. during October and November 2007 as part of the Sit Down and Sing Tour. ..The Umbrellas Of Shibuya.. is also available as a limited 7”.
Members
David Scott : vocals, keyboards, guitar and bass.. Jim Gash : drums and vocals.. Stuart Kidd : guitar and vocals.. Gabriel Telerman : guitar.. Deepak Bahl : bass.. Lawrence Dunn: violin Alison Lucas: violin / viola Tom Prentice: viola Wendy Weatherby: cello Colin Steele: Trumpet Allon Beauvoisin: Sax, Flute, Clarinet Brian Molley: Sax, Flute
Influences
Paul McCartney.. Brian Wilson.. Burt Bacharach.. Todd Rundgren.. Joni Mitchell.. Kraftwerk..
Sounds Like
Todd Rundgren.. BMX Bandits (with good reason - David's a Bandit too).. The Pernice Brothers.. The Monkees.. Richard Hawley.. Aberfeldy.. Teenage Fanclub.. The Flaming Lips.. Mercury Rev.... ..Norman Blake and David Scott - Hammond Song (live at Carnegie Hall, 2008).... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Even on a Sunday Afternoon (promo video - 1997).... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..You Justify My Life (live with BMX Bandits).... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..Panto Horse (live with BMX Bandits).... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ..Paint on a Smile (live with BMX Bandits).... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..