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THE PEARLFISHERS - UP WITH THE LARKS! |
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| Location: | Falkirk/Glasgow/East Kilbride, Scotland |
| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Last Login: | Feb 25, 2008 (194 days back) |
About Me |
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| Wake up everybody, they are back back back: After an extended hiatus, Glasgow’s The Pearlfishers return refreshed and all improved with Up With The Larks, their sixth album for Marina Records - the latest in a line of orch-pop masterpieces including Across The Milky Way, Sky Meadows and A Sunflower At Christmas. The album is clear evidence that main Pearlfisher David Scott continues his unique musical journey with renewed joy and verve - and that classic songwriting and well- crafted arrangements are alive and well in 2007. Joyous title track, Up With The Larks kick starts the day, “shattered and blue in splinters and sparks”, rich with trademark Pearlfishers lush vocal harmonies, multi-layered guitar texture, the wild jangle of a battered upright piano and exquisite melodic twists and turns. Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake co-produced four of the album’s cuts, starting with The Bluebells – not a tribute to once famous Scottish popsters but a beautiful, string-laden rumination on the turning of seasons. One act who do indeed receive a full-blooded name-check are Womack And Womack in a song titled, aptly enough, Womack And Womack which recalls Scott’s early days running with the hawks of the major music industry (“...left the school and joined a band, like other lads across the land, gladly kissed the corporate hand...”). Morning breaks again in Ring The Bells For A Day, complete with the glittering Big Star chime of massed Fender Stratocaster, an exultation to “cast the night away”and a line written in tribute to one of Scott’s enduring heroes, Brian Wilson: “Wherever you lie down, wherever you wake up, the world follows”. The Pearlfishers 2006 Japanese tour with BMX Bandits is thrillingly recounted in The Umbrellas Of Shibuya, a song which takes its reference point from Michel Legrand’s classic movie opera “The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg” but locates itself in a Tokyo rainstorm – with neon puddles, painted in Morricone banjos, Sakamoto synth blooms, Nilsson mouth music and, most tellingly, Scott’s truly unique sense of melody and structure. Another highlight is the Randy Newman-esque With You On My Mind which sounds like a lost Tin Pan Alley classic arranged by Van Dyke Parks. London’s In Love could be the theme song to an as-yet-to-be-made romantic comedy blockbuster starring the new Cary Grant, set in the “blue black air”of Britain’s capital – full of promise and heartbreak. The Pearlfishers, firmly rooted in the classic tradition of three minute cinematics as pioneered by Webb, McCartney and, recently Rufus Wainwright, reach a great finale with the album’s two closing songs: Blue Riders On The Range, a sparkling widescreen epic (sounding like Marvin & Diana doing “RAM”) and the gorgeous, pastoral I Just See The Rainbow which ends the album on an optimistic note. “And call me cock-eyed if you will, but I don’t see that dark hill, I just see the rainbow...”. The only way is UP! David Scott toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with Norman Blake during October and November 2007 as part of the Sit Down and Sing Tour. The Umbrellas Of Shibuya is also available as a limited 7”. |
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Music:Member Since: 5/21/2006Band Website: pearlfishers.com Band Members: David Scott : vocals, keyboards, guitar and bass Jim Gash : drums and vocals Keith Matheson : guitar and vocals Gabriel Telerman : guitar Deepak Bahl : bass Influences: Paul McCartney Brian Wilson Burt Bacharach Todd Rundgren Joni Mitchell Kraftwerk Sounds Like: Todd Rundgren BMX Bandits (with good reason - I'm a Bandit too) The Pernice Brothers The Monkees Richard Hawley Aberfeldy Teenage Fanclub The Flaming Lips Mercury Rev Even on a Sunday Afternoon (promo video - 1997) You Justify My Life (live with BMX Bandits) Panto Horse (live with BMX Bandits) Paint on a Smile (live with BMX Bandits) Record Label: Marina Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Folk Rock / Powerpop / Indie) |
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My Blog |
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Scottish Album Of The Year |
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| The Pearlfishers "Up With The Larks" is The Sunday Mail Scottish Album Of The Year for 2007! from today's (23.12.07) newspaper - "this category caused a major headache. I was spoiled for choice with g... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:27:00 PST |
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Pearlies Live! |
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| The Pearlfishers celebrate the release of "Up With The Larks" with a special show in Glasgow this coming January 20th at The Classic Grand as part of the amazing Celtic Connections festival. We're goi... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:14:00 PST |
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Up With The Larks - Sunday Times Pop CD of the Week |
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| The Pearlfishers Up With The Larks album was yesterday announced as Sunday Times: Pop CD of the Week.December 9, 2007The Pearlfishers: Up with the Larks - Pop CD of the Weekby Mark Edwards Anyone who ... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:38:00 PST |
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PEARLFISHERS ONE HOUR RADIO SPECIAL!!! |
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| The Pearlfishers: Thank You For The Music: BBC Radio Scotland Thursday 13th September 2007.The music of David Scott and The Pearlfishers is celebrated in a one hour special, this coming Thursday 13th ... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:38:00 PST |
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A Lovely Thing |
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| I'm trying not to play any of the new Pearlfishers music right now. Artwork is done (and gorgeous), music is mastered (and, I think, sparkly) and the factory is humming, turning and stamping so it fee... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:04:00 PST |
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more songs |
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| With the new album due out later this year we have decided to upload three of our favourites from the Pearlies back catalogue, plus a rarity from a Marina compilation:
1. Everybody Knows it's a Dream ... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:17:00 PST |
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mastering the pearlies |
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| hello.a message to those people who've been looking forward to the appearance of a new pearlfishers recording. i'm happy, and not a little relieved, to let you know that it is almost in the bag.i drov... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:53:00 PST |
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| Dumb Dumb Dumb from the Teenage Fanclub tribute album Is This Music (Painted Sky Discs, 2002)
Never Going Back Again - Lindsay Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) (Unreleased Studio Outtake, 1999)
Cherry... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:40:00 PST |
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| First songs we uploaded:Todd is God from The Young Picnickers (Marina, 2003)My Dad the Weatherfan & With You on My Mind - Live at the Lounge, Hamburg (Unreleased, March 2004)Hurt from the Hurt EP ... Posted by The Pearlfishers on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:57:00 PST |
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