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Tom Slatter's Ironbark Debuts << Prev Next >>
Press Release from UK Musician Tom Slatter on his new album release, Ironbark .
By DoctorQ on Jul 05 2011 Category:SpC,Media,Music Tom Slatter
Ironbark
'An Experiment Too Far' – Doctor Q – Steampunk Chronicle
www.tomslatter.co.uk
 How many songs about mechanical body parts and steampunk monsters is too many? Since January 2010 Tom Slatter has been on a mission to find out. With the 9 songs from his debut album and the 8 from the record Ironbark, the answer might be 17.
Ironbark is the follow up to 2010's Spinning the Compass which was described as 'acoustic prog-rock ... from alternating measures of 5/4 to wildly chromatic key changes to rowdy (acoustic) guitar solos.' The prog-rock elements are even more pronounced on Ironbark. The title track is a 17 minute indie prog-rock epic. It is proceeded by the 5 part connected narrative sequence The Miser's Will. The tracks Steamlife and The Beast of the Air round off an album that combines elements of prog and acoustic indie rock with steampunk aesthetics.
Tom Slatter is a singer-songwriter from London, England. Ironbark was written, recorded and performed entirely by him in his under-equipped home studio in South London next to the historic ruins of the Crystal Palace. Those old walls and statues, the ghosts of Victorian grandeur inspired the steampunk aesthetic found in his work. They even served as the backdrop for the video to the title track of his previous album, Spinning the Compass, which he filmed with his brother Joe 'The Darkpower' Slatter (www.thedarkpower.com).
Says Tom:
'Ironbark carries on where the previous album left off. Whereas Spinning the Compass contained songs about confusion, isolation and mechanical body parts, Ironbark explores themes like obsession, murder and mechanical body parts.'
'I've always loved the story telling elements of British folk music – songs like Bedlam Boys or 'The Trees They Do Grow High' but I also love Radiohead and various prog acts old and new like King Crimson and Opeth. Ironbark is a synthesis of all of those influences, plus an obsession with goggles and cogwheels.'
Ironbark is available from www.tomslatter.co.uk – it can be bought as a CD for £7 or downloaded for any price from nothing to a million pounds (Tom recommends a price somewhere between those two extremes).
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