Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death

by James Blackshaw

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1.	Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death 08:02	buy track
2.	Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 07:06	buy track
3.	And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways 05:07	buy track
4.	A Momentary Taste Of Being 05:24	buy track
5.	We Who Stole The Dream 07:18	buy track
6.	The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone 05:49	buy track

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Written at a time of great emotional disquiet, the hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet ninth full-length studio album, Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, from British guitarist-composer James Blackshaw was recorded at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago in December 2011 by engineer Andrew Hernandez (Balmorhea). The six original pieces contained on the album (whose titles are lovingly misappropriated from those of short stories by the late, great science fiction author James Tiptree, Jr., AKA Alice B. Sheldon) are based alternately around nylon-string classical guitar and grand piano, with spare and subtle vibraphone and B3 organ parts overdubbed by Blackshaw himself. Geneviève Beaulieu (Menace Ruine/Preterite) adds her stunning and powerful voice and words to track And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways. Love Is the Plan... is an incredibly warm and intimate recording and perhaps Blackshaw's most concise, consistent and overtly melodic to date.

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released April 24, 2012

All music composed by James Blackshaw.

Voice, Words – Geneviève Beaulieu

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Andrew Hernandez with James Blackshaw at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago, December 16-19, 2011.

Artwork: Yu Matsuoka Pol.
Photo: Julie Probert

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