Gifted with a multi-octave vocal range and also a multi-instrumentalist musician, John Sloman is a renaissance man with a singular musical vision brought to mesmeric life on his magnificent new solo album \u201cTwo Rivers\u201d. As a personal record, \u201cTwo Rivers\u201d documents John\u2019s journey from his childhood home city of Cardiff to treading the well-beaten path to London and his encounters in the music business fronting major headline bands.
\u201cTwo Rivers\u201d is a compelling cocktail of songwriting that blends crucial chapters of John\u2019s life in song and verse. In essence, \u201cTwo Rivers\u201d is a distillation of Sloman\u2019s eclectic musical progress from Lone Star to Uriah Heep, his adventures with UFO and The Gary Moore Band and his Todd Rundgren produced debut solo album \u201cDisappearances Can Be Deceptive\u201d. Adopting Cardiff’s River Taff and London\u2019s River Thames as metaphors, John\u2019s stream of consciousness observations pour forth from his deep well of memories. Populated with sublime songs wrapped around sharply observed personal postcards of a remarkable life \u201cTwo Rivers\u201d simply has to be heard to be believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This soundtrack to a life less ordinary begins with the title track\u2019s prophetic opening lines: \u201cTwo rivers flow through my mind – the one I see before me and the one I left behind.\u201d As John says: \u201cThe River Taff and the River Thames have come to personify this unrelenting tug of love I have experienced for most of my adult life. I left the one with a spring in my youthful step. But with so many of those who once walked beside me now gone to that great river in the sky, I regret all the days I was away. This album is for them \u2013 and for those of you still being torn in two by your own two rivers.\u201d
This memorial theme is taken further on the new single \u201cThis River Is A Time Machine\u201d that explores the memory bank simile of these constant yet fluid and life-giving channels delivered with a heartfelt passion by John. Revisiting his childhood on the song \u201cScenes From An Old Biscuit Tin,\u201d John explains the song\u2019s inspiration: \u201cOn school mornings, as I ate my porridge, I would lose myself in images of Elizabethan London adorning the family biscuit tin, while dreaming that I might one day go there \u2013 London, that is.\u201d And going to London is exactly what John did, which he superbly documents on \u201cLondinium\u201d and \u201cCharing Cross Moon,\u201d and achieving a substantial measure of success in doing so that established him as a major player in the late 70s and 1980s rock music scene and his continuing solo career. There is a pleasant surprise in store for fans of John Sloman with the Avant-Garde nature running right through this record. Think experimental Frank Zappa and late-period Scott Walker meeting the acoustic elements of Led Zeppelin and your imagination will be stoked by the captivating contents of this unique and exceptional album.
Two single releases \u201cThis River Is A Time Machine\u201d followed by \u201cThe Last Coalminer\u201d have non-album B sides and both are accompanied by videos for each single release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Release date: March 25, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTwo Rivers\u201d track list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1-Two Rivers
2-This River Is A Time Machine
3-Caerdydd (City On The River)
4-Scenes From An Old Biscuit Tin
5-From The Taff To The Thames
6-Londinium
7-Blackweir
8-When I Go Home
9-Rest In Peace (For Sylvy)
10-Charing Cross Moon
11-70s Sunday
12-Walking Along The Taff
13-The Last Coalminer
14-Farewell To London Town
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