Blue Stitches - 169CD (2024) | Carla Diratz & the Archers of Sorrow

Blue Stitches - 169CD (2024)

by Carla Diratz & the Archers of Sorrow

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paulamc143 There’s a song called Free Delivery which has a strong bluesy vibe and the Archers of Sorrow judge it perfectly and let rip at the end in an impressive, cacophonous free finale.
They certainly know how to mess with the blues, just don’t mess with Ms Diratz. A voice to shatter glass
A compelling and sophisticated lady, a Tom Waits like story teller, a get together with Charles Bukowski, but definitely in Paris’s more murky side of town. An unconventional blues album and all the better for it. Favorite track: Places I've Been.

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1.	Drops Of Remembrances 03:45	buy track
2.	Consumed 04:06	buy track
3.	I'll Be Gone 02:38	buy track
4.	Recalling The Fear 04:18	buy track
5.	A Peak At Night 05:30	buy track
6.	Journey Within 01:57	buy track
7.	The Inner Island 03:25	buy track
8.	The Void 03:24	buy track
9.	Free Delivery 06:05	buy track
10.	Puzzled 02:26	buy track
11.	I'm A Drifter 05:07	buy track
12.	Places I've Been 10:33	buy track
13.	You're Nowhere 01:54	buy track

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"Carla sings from a deep well of experience. There is such gravity in her voice. Captivating. The blues is expressed and also deconstructed here. Take the journey." - Dereck Higgins

"If you want safe go elsewhere. This is dark, dingy and oh so atmospheric and it’ll leave you wanting more. To quote aptly from one of her songs, ‘Kill the fear’ she says. Quite." - Paula Mcadam, Audion

"The album eases along from strength to strength, taking in elements of jazz, blues, rock, folk, a veritable showcase of different styles all connected by Diratz’ voice. There really isn’t a bad song on here anywhere, and it’s one of those “the more you listen to it, the better it gets” albums. "- Peter Thelen, EXPOSÉ

When Carla, Nick and I has completed our previous work “The Scale” in 2021, I felt this was such a unique work in its scope and feel – prog, pop, abstraction and chanson – that it would be very difficult to follow up such a definitive statement.

Then in 2022 Carla commented that were she to make another album, the state of the world dictated that it would have to be a blues album. Immediately we had our brief for a new record. Each of us had out own take on this idea. Carla sent in four jazz infected pieces for voice and keys which were recorded on her phone. Nick came up with a sequence of progressive blues rock pieces for the band. And I came up with a few little odds and ends with my own leftfield take on the format.

All of these were realised magnificently in the studio by our wonderful band, this time round bringing in the great improvising musician Adam Fairhall on organ.

We hope you will enjoy our modern contribution to the progressive blues rock tradition.

On first hearing this album our friend Carl Sonnenfeld wrote:
"Carla and her heavy voice crushed rock a whisper that blows the hot the cold a whisper that sinks snake engulfs with the alligator in a swamp of New Orleans Carla and her voice flows this Mississippi river that we go up against current back to reblues as an initiative quest towards Chicago Carla and her river voice that carries all the pain and grace Carla and her voice dries like sand that hangs on to the erratic harmonica of a mad angel Carla and her old dodge vehicle voice that tracks its way on the desert red dirt From Mojave to see Captain Beefheart and Neil Young. Carla and her voodoo voice to conjure fate and communicate with old bluesmen prayers to severe echoes of bass sax in osmosis with ambient chaos Carla gives her voice to the Blues a revisited and destroyed blues a Blues that resembles Carla"

credits

released March 22, 2024

Carla Diratz - voice, keyboard
Martin Archer - saxophones, clarinets, keyboards, electronics
Nick Robinson - guitars
Adam Fairhall - organ, electric piano
Dave Sturt - bass guitar
Adam Fairclough - drums
Charlotte Keeffe - trumpet

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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