Lurid Tales of Wrecking and Repose, by Cornish Wreckers

Lurid Tales of Wrecking and Repose

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1.	False Lights 10:00	buy track
2.	Black Phillip 08:19	buy track
3.	Into the Horizon 02:38	buy track
4.	Jack Harry's Lights 05:35 video	buy track
5.	Mother is Dead 04:39	buy track
6.	A Violet Plucked From Mother's Grave 03:35	buy track
7.	Jack the Ripper 07:00	buy track

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“Cornish Wreckers” are primarily three members - Tony Millman, his sister Andrea Millman and Michael Plater. Cornish Wreckers take their name from nineteenth-century folklore. Citizens of the Cornish coast were said to have displayed false lights from the cliffs and from the beaches in order to confuse and lure passing ships onto the treacherous rocks. When the ships foundered the Cornish Wreckers would then row out and board the stricken vessels and seize the cargo. The Cornish Wreckers would kill all the crew on board in order to settle any possible arguments about ownership.

Alternatively, . . . Tony Millman on navigational instruments, Michael Plater on psychiatric wigs and powders, Andrea Millman on plaint and false hopes. And a vast cast of international collaborators.

"False Lights" is an epic treatment of the Cornish Wrecking folk tale. It builds over ten operatic, punk-rock minutes and features a pirate choir which is both lynch mob and Tallis Scholars. The story of the merciless pirates broods and spins out of control in a sonic maelstrom-finale of wind-swept voices and strangling feedback. Oh my.

“Black Phillip" is the name of the bedeviled black goat that slowly but surely tempts and ruins a Puritan family trying to build a life in seventeenth-century New England. The song vibes Moorish and Gregorian modes and witch-chorus charisma. There is devilish backmasking and magical-science guitar and electric auto-harp treatments.

"Into the Horizon" is an extemporization on the biographical shrapnel from the varied accounts of Grace O'Malley the Irish Pirate Queen. It features Byzantine piano modes, backwards guitar and a stentorian soliloquy over field recordings of waves and rigging. Close your eyes and count to the horizon.

"Jack Harry's Lights" - a gentle, bell-chiming prayer which builds on a ringing guitar figure and ends by dissolving into the sound of an accordion over the waves, like a life, from beginning to end. Jack
the Lantern light me home, aloft on jangling guitar and panchromatic piano resonance, too beautiful to ever return from.

"Mother Is Dead" is an impassively incanted inventory of the signs of dormition and demise vis-a-vis "Mother". A sonorous male choir surges through the choruses while a mischievous Melon Mendez cackles and whispers in the ether around the edges. She taps tables. She hovers against the ceiling.

"A Violet Plucked from Mother's Grave" is a thorough rewrite of the 1880's music hall hit. Mary Jane Kelly was heard singing it at her Spitalfields digs, round midnight, shortly before being silenced by
Jack the Ripper. She liked the song. Can we know anything about her from the things that she may have left behind? The idea of a song rendered by her voice . . . ?

"Jack the Ripper" is a lilting and melancholic tour of the ghosts and myths surrounding the murderer known as Jack the Ripper. Who was he? Perhaps all that remains is a certain ambiance, a kind of Victorian vapor trail.

Reviews:

Grim poetry and haunting atmosphere…you might find yourself grabbing a washcloth to wipe the brine from your temples. It is immersive and deeply effective…We heartily encourage anyone with a love of black eyeliner, Sweeney Todd, influenza, pirates, and general mayhem to join us in supporting this ghastly crew and ensure future ventures, by land or by sea,” (Sing the Nation Electric, U.S)

"A dark & interesting album," (Roots and Fusion, U.K)

"Ghostly, sexy, dark and moody. Absolutely great," (Issues, U.S)

"A huge, majestic achievement. It's mature, gothic, simple, complex," (i94 Bar, Sydney)

Artwork: Peter Aldrich

Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTC_Dsk9iePOUSkVlg89hg

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released December 9, 2019

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Michael Plater UK

U.K based Australian noir/experimental singer/songwriter. Solo artist, Northern Lighthouse Board, Ghosts of Electricity, Cornish Wreckers & various other incarnations and incantations

"Beautiful and timeless...Music that breaks your heart,” (Peek-a-Boo, Belgium)

"One of the most absorbing and arresting players around."
(B-Side Magazine)

contact: michaelashleyplater@gmail.com ... more

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