David A Jaycock - The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude

David A Jaycock – The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude

Posted On: March 22, 2010
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Named after a Hitchcock-esque nightmare in which he was set upon by a pair of hard-winged, marauding cuckoos, David A Jaycock’s second album is step forward from the pastoral motifs of his debut, incorporating an expansive country-folk sound alongside the indigenous qualities and general oddness that have made his name.

An active member of Pickled Egg recording artists Big Eyes, as well as The Big Eyes Family Players, David plays a vast selection of instruments, with his signature guitar intricacies joined by analogue synthesizers, bowed banjos, toy piano, harmonium, and a zither . Subsequently, The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude is an achingly beautiful work of cinematic majesty; its progressive classicism enhanced by David’s will to actively break traditional musical boundaries.

Track List:

Prelude in D minor
A Third Waltz
A New Love Song
That Warm Feeling in my Belly
Spilling the Beans at St. Neot
Knots on the Tide
Woodcutter’s Lapse
Bontempi Waltz
Inside Out
Monica’s Lament
The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude
Tiger Moths Decent
A Dream of Falling
There Be Killer Bees in Them There Trees
Half Cut but Moving Swiftly
Zither Song

In equal measure ethereal and energetic, the beautiful but unsettling collection from pastoral oddity David A Jaycock is a mind-blowing array of guitar mastery and folk soundscapes. As a whole, the album is as complex to take in as its prosaic title, with the range of songs moving through hints of the Arabic souk to disturbed takes on nursery rhyme melodies. – High Voltage

Prelude in D minor

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Monica’s Lament

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A Dream Of Falling

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