Ben Osborn – Letters from the Border (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:40 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoNoStar Records
Ben Osborn, the award-winning poet, composer and songwriter, returns to the UK this summer to launch his debut album Letters From The Border at The Wardrobe Theatre.
The result of an extraordinary musical partnership with the head of Nonostar Records – German experimental violinist Alex Stolze – the album was created at the remote Nonostar Studio on the German-Polish border in the summer of 2018. Channelling Leonard Cohen-esque balladry, Ben’s penetrating poetic lyrics are set against ethereal string arrangements, skittering, Bjork-like beats and drifting Erik Satie inspired piano chords. His songs evoke a strange and broken world, at once the stories of Ben’s Eastern-European Jewish ancestry and the struggles faced by migrants and refugees today. Intimate and honest tales explores themes of nostalgia and unspoken family conflicts, and examine the universal experiences of grief and bereavement from a deeply personal perspective.
Tracklist
1 Chedvah
2 Letters from the Border
3 Fast Awake
4 Tangles
5 A Bridge of Starlings
6 Fields
7 My Sister the Swimmer
8 A Guide to Gothenburg for the Sleepless
9 The Only Thing
10 Psalm22
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