
So I finally finished this cover. It needed some wee tweaks and brightness adjustment filters and stuff, and we're all happy with it.
It was recorded 2 weeks ago, and features local organist Neil Taylor, who is musical director at Sheffield Cathedral.
The new cover therefore features an organ, and the title is after the song by Sir Arthur Sullivan. I wanted to put the lyrics of this somewhere on the new cover, but it didn't suit it.
So you can have them right here instead. It's an amazing tune, and I recommend you go listen to it. In fact I'll go find it for you...
http://youtu.be/i1YwDVAyauc
(This is from the band up t'road, as they say!)
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wander'd idly over the noisy keys;
I knew not what I was playing, or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight like the close of an Angel's Psalm,
And it lay on my fever'd spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife,
It seem'd the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
It link'd all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace
And trembled away into silence as if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly, that one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ and enter'd into mine.
It may be that Death's bright Angel will speak in that chord again;
It may be that only in Heav'n I shall hear that grand Amen!
Edit! Oh yeah, you should all go look at our website. Guess who did the graphics: http://www.cliftonband.co.uk/
It was recorded 2 weeks ago, and features local organist Neil Taylor, who is musical director at Sheffield Cathedral.
The new cover therefore features an organ, and the title is after the song by Sir Arthur Sullivan. I wanted to put the lyrics of this somewhere on the new cover, but it didn't suit it.
So you can have them right here instead. It's an amazing tune, and I recommend you go listen to it. In fact I'll go find it for you...
http://youtu.be/i1YwDVAyauc
(This is from the band up t'road, as they say!)
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wander'd idly over the noisy keys;
I knew not what I was playing, or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight like the close of an Angel's Psalm,
And it lay on my fever'd spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife,
It seem'd the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
It link'd all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace
And trembled away into silence as if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly, that one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ and enter'd into mine.
It may be that Death's bright Angel will speak in that chord again;
It may be that only in Heav'n I shall hear that grand Amen!
Edit! Oh yeah, you should all go look at our website. Guess who did the graphics: http://www.cliftonband.co.uk/
Category Designs / Scenery
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