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Norman Lamont - Crow
My new song and video - Crow. Inspired by the Ted Hughes book The Life and Songs of the Crow.
The music started life as 'Cale Experiment 002' in 2012, inspired by the way John Cale used loops in his album Hobo Sapiens. I came back to it every few months until it began to convince me it could be a song. It took many years to evolve into Crow, even after I added the lyrics. Each time I've worked on it I've cut more of it away, getting it from well over six minutes down to just under four.
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The Ballad of Bob Dylan - Norman Lamont and the Heaven Sent 2019
The surreal story-song of how one man met Bob Dylan and things went weird from there.
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Norman Lamont & The Heaven Sent - She Wants Out (but we're in lockdown!)
Coronavirus lockdown - we all want out! Stitched together from home videos by the band.
'She Wants Out' is our followup to the Beatles 'She Loves You' but six weeks, months or years later.
Norman Lamont - acoustic
Fiona Thom - electric
Suzy Cargill - percussion
James Whyte - bass
A squirrel - backing vox
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Christmas On Earth (Momus cover) - Norman Lamont
A home-made cover of one of Momus's most beautiful and haunting songs, from his album Timelord, produced in 1993.
More about Momus https://www.imomus.com
More about Norman https://normanlamont.com
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
If I Could Be With You - a song for my father
A sad and personal song about my father, with a spoken introduction. Recorded by John Farrell at The Village, Leith on 4th October 2018
The song starts at 1:12
This song will be on my 2019 album Ten Objects
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
Box Of Tricks (Norman Lamont cover of Ms Fi and the Lost Head Band song)
I've been fascinated by this song, written by my friends Fiona J Thom and John Farrell, for years. I started my own version in 2014 but only finished it in July 2018. That's about my normal rate! The footage, all vintage American propaganda, comes from the Prelinger Internet Archive and just seemed to fall in with the theme.
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/
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A Slip And A Slide - Norman Lamont and Gerry Callaghan co-write
One of a three-song cycle composed in 2018. The full story is at https://normanlamont.com/the-poor-girl-from-dublin/
The three songs are available for a charity donation at https://normanlamont.bandcamp.com/album/four-little-leaves
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
The Goodbye Song (live at the album launch)
Norman Lamont and the Heaven Sent sing about how NOT to dump someone, at the album launch for In Another Life, Voodoo Rooms Edinburgh, March 2018
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
Ye Banks And Braes (Burns song in John Martyn style)
This is a live version of the song, recorded at home. I previously put a studio version oniine at https://normanlamont.com/burns-john-martyn-style/
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
Until I Found You (live) - Norman Lamont & the Heaven Sent
Filmed by Terry Dray at the launch gig for our album In Another Life.
Norman Lamont - guitar
Fiona Thom - guitar
John Lawrence - organ
James Whyte - bass
Suzy Cargill - drums
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This was the last song of the set, so we'd finally relaxed and were able to enjoy it.
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
End of Tears - Norman Lamont and the Heaven Sent
The first single from the album In Another Life, directed and produced by Terry Dray.
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/ -
Stuck To Your Name - Norman Lamont
A song recorded in fits and starts over 10 years using FL Studio and Reaper. The backing track was originally for a folk song The Snow It Melts The Soonest recorded by a friend at my house. I decided to keep it and write a new song over it.
The footage is from a 1951 public training for a nuclear attack called Duck and Cover.
If you'd like to support my music, you can download the track from Bandcamp https://normanlamont.bandcamp.com/track/stuck-to-your-name
Tell Tale Songs - a free mini-album of surreal story-songs by Norman Lamont - get it here: https://normanlamont.com/get-tell-tale/
