James Dean Bradfield – Even In Exile LP Released 14/08/20

Description

Second solo album by James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers. An ultra-vivid eulogy to a brilliant life cut short, Even in Exile is a beautiful collection of songs that loosely trace to story of the life and death of Chilean poet-singer-activist Victor Jara. At points pure and biographical, at others dreamlike and opaque, Bradfield sets words written specifically for the album by poet / playwright Patrick Jones to some of the most addictive and affecting melodies hes ever by records and artists as diverse as Rushs Moving Pictures, The Bad Plus Never Stop 2, Kamasi Washingtons Heaven and Earth, The Welsh Connection by Man, John Cales Walking On Locusts, Pink Floyds Meddle, The Marble Index by Nico, The Beaten Generation by The The and the music of Alessandro Alessandroni, I Cantori Moderni and Violetta Parra, Even in Exile was played almost entirely by Bradfield and recorded at Door To The River Studio in South Wales. It features ten original compositions and a cover of Victor Jaras La Partida.