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Roger O'Donnell - 2 Ravens (2020) FLAC

Keyboardist and composer Roger O’Donnell has spent over 40 years on stage with bands like Psychedelic Furs, The Thompson Twins and for the last 33 years (on and off) the world’s biggest cult band – The Cure.  Since 2005, he has also had an active and interesting solo career. He composed and recorded an entire album, The Truth In Me on a Minimoog Voyager in 2006 for his first solo project and in 2015 collaborated with cellist Julia Kent on Love And Other Tragedies,  (a recommended listen if you haven’t explored O’Donnell’s classical work before) an enthralling collection of piano and cello compositions inspired by classical love stories.

The past few years have been full on for O’Donnell – there’s been a gruelling world tour in 2016 with The Cure and a set at Hyde Park to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary in 2018. 2019 was another top year for the band with one of the best ever headlining performances at Glastonbury as well as a worthy induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  So, after the tour, during some downtime, he returned to his home in Devon, South-West England and spent time producing 2 Ravens which became another collaboration project – this time with vocalist and lyricist Jennifer Pague of American Indie pop band, Vita And The Woolf.

2 Ravens began as an instrumental record, side one featuring two cellos and side two a string quartet when O’Donnell was introduced to Pague and sent the material off to her for input. She then sent back 90 seconds of vocals on one track and he was blown away by her interpretation. Pague wrote and demoed her four songs in her home studio in LA and the pair met up in London to record the album. It was recorded over just five days with some of O’Donnell’s favourite musicians: Alisa Liubarskaya, Miriam Wakeling, Aled Jones, Nadine Nagen and Daniel Gea.


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