Abandoned Buildings, by Duncan Parsons

Abandoned Buildings

by Duncan Parsons

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1.	Building (pt i): Overtures 00:51	buy track
2.	Spring Cleaning 03:14	buy track
3.	Walking On The Wall 03:04	buy track
4.	If I Knock On Your Door 02:11	buy track
5.	Wond'ring A'lowed 04:37	buy track
6.	Tumblé D'Amour 04:05	buy track
7.	Lavender Rose 05:03	buy track
8.	Can't Stop 03:44	buy track
9.	Gonville 02:04	buy track
10.	Stay 04:17	buy track
11.	Answerphone 03:51	buy track
12.	Glass Fortress 04:34	buy track
13.	Wasteland 05:08	buy track
14.	Refuge 03:30	buy track
15.	Sometimes I Talk To Ghosts 04:25	buy track
16.	Footnote In Your Heart 03:15	buy track
17.	Rekwiem 02:56	buy track
18.	Building (pt ii): Closer 09:54	buy track

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Abandoned Buildings
Songs of Love, Loss, and Questions,
By Duncan Parsons

Abandoned Buildings is a concept album telling a tale of grace against a backdrop of falling in love and failing in love.

Released in late 2012, this was Duncan's return to recorded music after a decade and half.

‘Parsons writes catchy ditties and clever lyrics, he also possesses the ability to make restrained ideas have more impact than first impressions would have you believe.’ (Sea Of Tranquility)

‘..mixes a dry wit with a wonderfully observant line in lyrics, this is an album that will both delight and provoke thought in equal measures.’ (The Waiting Room)

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released December 17, 2012

All Songs and sounds - Duncan Parsons
except Wasteland Parsons/Madriaga

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Female voice on Wasteland - Rachel Madriaga
That lady on Can't Stop - Beth Ward
Additional voices on Bilding (Part ii): Closer - Kim Eames, Becci Scales, John Hackett, Rachel Madriaga, Trefor Jones, Jeremy Richardson
Additional drums on Building (Part ii): Closer - Steven McMurray
Vertical Flute - John Hackett
Wub Guitar on Glass Fortress, and other incidental voicings - Jeremy Richardson
Trumpet - Raul D'Oliveira
5-String Violin on Rekwiem - Chrissie Caulfield
All other Strings - theplastikorkestra

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Duncan Parsons Sheffield, UK

Multi-instrumentalist, drummer with the John Hackett Band, bassist with Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band

It's as if the 80s never quite arrived, music from Nineteen Seventy Twelve or Thirteen

"..like music beamed from an earlier, more innocent time.. a more assertive Nick Drake." (Prog magazine)
‘..mixes a dry wit with a wonderfully observant line in lyrics’ (The Waiting Room) ... more

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