Bobbie has recently released ‘Yearn’, an album of the some of the songs that she was writing, recording and performing with Jonny Seagroatt before Comus reformed. If you’d like to hear the album, you can listen to it on Bandcamp, where it’s available as a download or a physical album. It is also available as a physical album on Discogs. For more details about Yearn please see jonseagroatt.com/yearn.
Early in June 2020 Bobbie was invited by Comus’ good friend, Steve Krakow, to perform a short set for this year’s online-only Million Tongues Festival, which live-streamed on July 5th.
Steve suggested that it would be nice if the set could contain some Comus-based material, mixed with something along the lines of ‘Deathless’, a 2013 album by Bobbie’s husband (and fellow-Comus member), Jon Seagroatt, on which Bobbie sang.
Bobbie & Jon have just released the resulting four song set as ‘Mortal Tongues’, a thirty minute EP.
‘Mortal Tongues’ contains two radical reimagining of Comus songs arranged by Jon (‘The Herald’ & ‘In The Lost Queen’s Eyes’). If you listen really, really carefully you might just hear subtle, liminal contibutions from Glenn, Roger or Andy drifting through the mixes. These were drawn from recordings Jon made of the band during Comus rehearsals.
The two Comus re-imaginings were paired with two new songs written by Bobbie & Jon specially for the Festival (‘Traps’ & ‘Frayed’).
‘Mortal Tongues’ is available for listening or download on Bandcamp:
Some of you might know that our bassist Andy Hellaby turned to composing music on an analogue synth during the long gap between the band’s break up and eventual reformation. Andy has now digitised a collection of pieces and made them available for download as an album or individual pieces, varying from the neo-classical to ambient and anything in between! It was these pieces that led to Andy’s many commissions for film and theatre during the 1980’s, although the actual pieces have never been published before. You can check them out here: https://andyhellaby.bandcamp.com/album/sound-portraits
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