Bill Fay - Still Some Light: Part 1

RELEASED 14.1.22 - HEAVYWEIGHT BLACK DOUBLE LP [DOC224LP]

Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time," he says. His influence can be traced through many artists' work, and so it only seemed right to celebrate this with a collection of newer voices interpreting his timeless tracks.

Originally released in 2010 by David Tibet (Current 93), Still Some Light was released as a double-CD, made up of '70s album demos (disc one) and 2009 home recordings (disc two). This year, for the first time, this collection of recordings will be pressed to vinyl, presented alongside contemporary re-imaginings of the tracks by Kevin Morby, Steve Gunn, Julia Jacklin and Mary Lattimore.

Bill Fay's words and melodies remain unaffected by the passing of time and changing trends; and here alongside the original recordings, these reinvented versions still calmly guide us through another moment of chaos.

Many of the songs are intimate sketches which were eventually re-recorded for Fay's self-titled debut and for his landmark album, Time of the Last Persecution. This set includes heart wrenching versions of some of his timeless works, such as I Hear You Calling and Pictures of Adolf Again and features equally powerful songs like Arnold is a Simple Man and Love is the Tune, which only appear in this collection.

Tracklist:

LP 1:
1. Backwoods Maze
2. The Sun is Bored
3. There's a Price Upon My Head
4. Time of the Last Persecution
5. Plan D
6. Sing Us One of Your Songs May
7. I Will Find My Own Way Back
8. Love is the Tune

LP 2:
1. Laughing Man
2. Arnold is a Simple Man
3. Just to Be a Part
4. Inside the Keeper's Pantry
5. Pictures of Adolph
6. Tell It Like It Is
7. Release is in the Eye
8. Dust Filled Room
9. I Hear You Calling