25/10/24 An ampersand intimately and magically joins things together. “&” (Ampersand) is also the name of an exhilarating new Bastille project from Dan Smith, a collection of story songs that intertwine the lives and wide worlds of startling women and men. Poets and artists, anthropologists and scientists, characters from religion and myth, outsiders and trailblazers, all come to life here, in sound worlds fed by new collaborations, dazzling arrangements and an infectious spirit of musical freedom. “&” is a collection of songs about looking out at the world, disappearing into other lives rather than into ourselves, and about the humanity that can crackle and shimmer as a consequence. Tracklisting: Intros & Narrators Eve & Paradise Lost Emily & Her Penthouse In The Sky Blue Sky & The Painter Leonard & Marianne Marie & Polonium Red Wine & Wilde Seasons & Narcissus Drawbridge & The Baroness The Soprano & Her Midnight Wonderings Essie & Paul Mademoiselle & The Nunnery Blaze Zheng Yi Sao & Questions For Her Telegraph Road 1977 & 2024
