Leafblade + Band in Liverpool, EN

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A delicate blend of hauntingly acoustic refrains and powerful evocations, rich with storytelling imagery and myth.
Biography
Sean Jude and Kevin Murphy composed together throughout the 1990s in critically acclaimed progressive band Valle Crucis, playing thunderous, purely theatrical, conceptual works, nurturing also a love of acoustic ambience with a Nature-Mystical feel.
Sean formed Leafblade in 2003 with Kevin on bass, and Pete Gilchrist on guitar. The powerful evocations of Leafblade were born, coloured with nature-myth, poetry and the gravity of the seasons; a delicate blend of hauntingly acoustic refrains, rich with storytelling imagery.
Acoustic tours of Europe began, until 2006 with the release of Beyond, Beyond to Aftermath Music.
Beyond, Beyond was generously lauded everywhere, rich in ecstatic, soothing tones, haunting vocals and melodies and silvered orchestration. The listener would witness the interweaving of the deeply poetic sentiment for unfolding life; expanded, Cosmic Consciousness.
Dan Cavanagh had always loved Sean’s music, finding in it a “sense of home”, “gold and green”, Celtic Epigram, Arthurian Allegory, a tapestry at once polyphonic, medieval, ambient, absorbing: the Sacred Groves of the Celts; journeys through inner landscapes celebrating the Sabbatical Round. This cemented a musical collaboration and a start of many journeys geographical, spiritual and creative.
In spring 2010, Leafblade recorded their latest opus The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh, a cauldron of season songs and moon poems for souls sprayed with starry nebulae, produced by Dan Cavanagh and featuring drums from Daniel Cardoso.
Set for release in May 2013 through Snapper Music / Kscope Records, The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh steps up the dynamics from Beyond,Beyond, with powerful anthemic refrains, uplifting orchestration and leaden guitar-work as well as the idiosyncratic lute-like nylon strings and multi-range vocals. By turns haunting, Troubadour, far-reaching, articulate, The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh is washed through with lush symphonic weaving and percussion.
Thematically, The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh celebrates the Poet’s interaction with Nature, sees the human condition in a transcending manner, a gateway between deeper vision and the life in the Land.
Description
A delicate blend of hauntingly acoustic refrains and powerful evocations, rich with storytelling imagery and myth. Here we witness the interweaving of the deeply poetic sentiment for unfolding life with the Nature Mystical and expanded, Cosmic Consciousness, Celtic Epigram and Arthurian Allegory The tapestry is one polyphonic, medieval, ambient, absorbing; it is the Sacred Groves of the Celts; inner landscapes celebrating the Sabbatical Round, season songs and moon poems, souls sprayed with starry nebulae. Lute-like nylon strings combine with dynamic vocals by turns haunting, Troubadour, far-reaching, articulate, washed through with lush orchestration and percussion.

Screen name:

Leafblade

Member since:

Nov 22 2013

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Touring

Years together:

25

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

1 time per week

Age:

55 years

Influences

Led Zeppelin, Rush, Clannad, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, America

Members Of Band

Sean Jude - Vocals/Guitar
Kevin Murphy - Bass/Vocals
Pete Gilchrist - Guitar/vocals

MUSIC