Natalie Merchant – Keep Your Courage (2LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Natalie Merchant Album: Keep Your Courage Released: Europe, 2023 Tracklist: A1 Big Girls 4:57 A2 Come On, Aphrodite 5:20 A3 Sister Tilly 7:42 B1 Narcissus 6:02 B2 Hunting The Wren 5:47 B3 Guardian Angel 5:56 C1 Eye Of The Storm 5:30 C2 Tower Of Babel 2:28 C3 Song Of Himself 4:51 C4 The Feast Of Saint Valentine 6:06 Bonus Content D1 Spring & Fall: To A Young Child 3:04 D2 Butterfly 5:40 D3 Giving Up Everything 4:26 D4 Frozen Charlotte 6:03 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. In stock vinyl is usally shipped next business day, please check the availability field at the top of the product page to see whether the record is currently in stock or if it is available from the supplier as well as estimated shipping times. If you order an in stock item together with a pre order or back order (listed as available from supplier rather than in stock) then the order will be shipped together when all items arrive. If you would like the in stock items shipped first please place two separate orders or contact us to arrange shipping items separately. We are strongly committed to customer satisfaction. If you experience any problems with your order contact us so we can rectify the situation. If the record arrives damaged or doesn’t arrive we will cover the cost of replacing or returning the record. If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show 2LP – Black Vinyl. Includes four bonus tracks from earlier albums, previously unreleased on vinyl (not available on the cd edition of this album). Nonesuch Records releases Natalie Merchants Keep Your Courage, her ninth solo studio album and first of new material since 2014s self-titled record. An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis. There are lush orchestrations throughout by seven composers including: Gabriel Kahane, Stephen Barber, Colin Jacobson, and Megan Gould. Keep Your Courage comprises nine original songs by Merchant as well as an interpretation of “Hunting the Wren” by Ian Lynch of the Irish band Lankum. The vinyl LP edition of Keep Your Courage includes four bonus tracks from earlier albums, previously unreleased on vinyl. Merchant writes in her albums liner notes, The songs contained within this album were written and recorded during the global pandemic that began in the winter of 2019 and is in its fifth wave as I write, in the autumn of 2022. It has been, and continues to be, a period of great flux and fear on every level: global, national, communal, familial, personal. But this is not an album about the coronavirus or the chaos it caused. For the most part, this is an album about the human heart. She continues, The word courage has its root in the Latin word for heart, cor, and we see it over and over in many languages: le coeur, il cuore, o corao, el corazn. This is a song cycle that maps the journey of a courageous heart. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review