Nocturne Thunder

by A Lily

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1.	Like Rising Smoke 05:25	buy track
2.	Unnatural Animals 04:57	buy track
3.	To Seek Ecstasy In the Dawn 05:24	buy track
4.	Balafon Heart 04:39	buy track
5.	Like a Hymn 03:56	buy track

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Nocturne Thunder is a cousin to A Lily’s acclaimed 2020 album Sleep Through The Storm. As with its progenitor, the songs were mostly built live, looping and layering a single performance, pushing repetition and patterns - exploratory, cellular variations on a theme, lyrical songs that say something without lyrics.

Whereas Sleep Through the Storm dealt with themes of loneliness in surviving the demands of a challenging world, Nocturne Thunder relates to unifying to overcome them - dancing through the night, together, in abandon and defiance of all that seeks to crush us. It was inspired by 90s New York Rave culture, especially Antenne Books' collection of flyers from the era. "There's something beautiful and ecstatic about celebrating harmony in the face of difficulty," says James Vella aka A Lily.

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released July 15, 2022

Music written, performed and produced by James Vella
Photography by Mark Vella
Mastered by Sam Berdah at the Wall Studio
Artwork by Graeme Swinton at Actually

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