Inner Roads And Outer Paths

by Vic Mars

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	1.	Bric-á-Brac Shop 02:40
	2.	Evacuees At Arrow House 05:02
	3.	Thistle And Briar 03:40
	4.	A Nest In The Warehouse Roof 04:01
	5.	Inner Roads And Outer Paths 04:11
	6.	The Last Days Of The Great House 04:13
	7.	Broken Spires And Ruined Arches 01:21
	8.	Holloways 04:42
	9.	Paths Beyond The Towns 03:38
	10.	Following The River 02:35
	11.	End Of The Branch Line 04:41
	12.	The Fair Arrives 04:29
	13.	Earthworks And Trackways 04:24

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Includes 2 bonus tracks.

Inner Roads and Outer Paths is Herefordshire born Vic Mars’ third release on Clay Pipe Music. It follows last years ‘The Soundtrack To The Hospice’ commissioned by Gideon Coe for BBC 6 Music, and 2015s critically acclaimed ‘The Land and the Garden’.

Inspired by in part by Alfred Watkins words and photographs of Herefordshire, the record also harks back to a period in Vic’s youth spent exploring the abandoned houses and factories on the fringes of his home town; the in-between places where nature either takes back, or loses its grip. On a recent visit home, he found a new road cutting through the fields he had played in as a child, and realised that some of the older pathways and lanes had become lost or overgrown. It is a record of trails, roads and holloways, that lead you out along the river, through ruined arches and over railway lines, past crumbling stately homes and back into the centre of town.

The album was recorded with 1980s style ‘tracker’ software, and a collection of instruments that includes alto recorders, school glockenspiels, a Roland Juno 60 and a Korg Monopoly. He manages to merge the wow and flutter of orchestral sounds from vintage British cinema documentaries, with Freddie Phillips style acoustic guitars and sequenced analogue synths. ‘Inner Roads and Outer Paths’ is a lush beautiful record that magically captures the Hereford landscape of Vic’s youth.

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released October 4, 2019

Originally released on Clay Pipe Music 4th October 2019.
Artwork used by kind permission.
All tracks composed by Matthew Davies.
Additional guitars on The Fair Arrives by Christopher Green.
Mastering by Antony Ryan.
Artwork by Frances Castle.

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