No Love Is Sorrow, by Buck Curran

No Love Is Sorrow

by Buck Curran

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1.	Blue Raga 04:01	buy track
2.	Ghost on the Hill 03:40	buy track
3.	No Love Is Sorrow 07:42	buy track
4.	Deep in the Lovin' Arms of My Babe 04:42	buy track
5.	Marie
6.	Odissea 06:05	buy track
7.	For Adele 05:00	buy track
8.	Django (New Years Day) 04:05	buy track
9.	One Evening 04:12	buy track
10.	Chromaticle 03:05	buy track
11.	War Behind the Sun 06:56	buy track
12.	Lucia 03:21	buy track
13.	Ghost on the Hill (Alternate Version) 03:41	buy track
14.	Blue Raga (Alternate Version) 03:34	buy track
15.	Marie (Alternate Version) 01:46	buy track
16.	Odissea (Alternate Version) 06:05	buy track

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No Love Is Sorrow is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter-guitarist Buck Curran. The album's primary influence draws upon personal experience, along with an idiosyncratic musical style developed over many years as a solo artist and member of the psych-folk duo Arborea. The album presents a body of soundscapes...acoustic and electric instrumentals, psychedelic poetic folk songs...compositions inspired by visions of the surreal landscapes of life: love, hope, loss, fear, transformation, the light of expecting a newborn child, dreams, the realization of impermanence with the recent losses of family members and friends. Further inspiration was drawn from music as wide-ranging as experimental music, '60s, and '70s Folk and psychedelic Blues-rock, Jazz, Western classical music, and Indian classical music.
“Ghost on the Hill,” “Deep in the Lovin' Arms of My Babe,” “Odissea,” and “One Evening” are very personal songs that include lyrical themes of love, memories, and fear: “Ghost on the Hill” is a haunting and poetic memoir of life past, “One Evening” (in the poetic style of Bob Dylan's “It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding”) is a harrowing statement charged with scenes of contemporary life: love and hope, uncertainty and fear created by society, technology, and politics. “Blue Raga,” “No Love Is Sorrow,” “Marie,” “For Adele,” “Chromaticle,” and “Lucia” are experimental tone poems created through improvisation on acoustic guitar. “War Behind the Sun” is a searing psychedelic electric guitar instrumental. “Django (New Years Day)” is Curran's debut on piano inspired by the music of Claude Debussy and Erik Satie.

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released November 6, 2020

Buck Curran - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, EBow, piano
Adele Pappalardo - additional vocals
Dipak Kumar Chakraborty - Tabla on "Blue Raga"

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Buck Curran Bergamo, Italy

Buck's music has developed through a decade of playing with Arborea, and the experience of playing Blues and Folk throughout the 1990s. He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock of the 1960s, American Blues and Folk music of the 1930s, British Folk and Psychedelic Folk/Rock of the '60s and early '70s, Indian Classical music, and Jazz of the '50s and '60s. ... more

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May 18

Bishops House

Sheffield, UK
May 19

Cafe OTO

London, UK

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