Beneath the Rose, by D^MSELFLY

Beneath the Rose

by D^MSELFLY

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1.	Windfucker (AKA The Kestrel) 01:30	buy track
2.	Come Fallow Lands, Come Fallen Leaf 05:13	buy track
3.	Let It Flood (Dirt of 7 Continents mix) 05:30	buy track
4.	Mermaid Cafe' Crow Blues 03:17	buy track
5.	Sub Rosa (Sussex Winter mix) 05:33	buy track
6.	Fin de la Melodia (Pvt.Townsend's Final Rest mix) 02:59	buy track

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Beneath the Rose is a collection of previously unreleased material and alternative versions from the Awkward Bow sessions....

"Damselfly, Sussex's socio-cultural weathercock, returns to with possibly his most romantic work.

The titles are tougher and you could say the cover has a dark air to it: we're given to think that it's a parody of English Country Garden Cosy. Without the Fanny or the Tutti Frutti. No fox and hounds oven gloves here and England's rose turned sooty black with foul prospect. As with many Damselfly things, we have to delve into the whole package; for one the titles are ultra-suggestive, half sentences that act as psychike grid references. And for its part the music full of riffs and hooks and intermezzo passages that act as open doors for the listener to push through.

Determined route marches like (the all-too-short) 'Come Fallow Lands, Come Fallen Leaf' and incredibly beautiful soundscapes like 'Let It Flood...' and 'Sub Rosa' are brooding affairs, post rave elegies that soar high as a buzzard on a current and draw on Sussex's reputation as a county of ghosts. Now and again we get a touch of Philip Glass's modus operandi ('Mermaid Cafe Crow Blues') with a rural twist."

Richard James Foster (Louder than War, Incendiary, Smikkelbaard)

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released April 30, 2018

Music - written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Darren James Holloway
Artwork - John Lymer

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D^MSELFLY Upper Beeding, UK

Post-rave elegies, post-(prog) rock and ambient soundscapes from Sussex, England

'..measured beauty and restrained power" TQ Zine

"..Sussex's socio-cultural weathercock" Louder than War

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