Jamie Parker is a Father of four; Sound Engineer and Session Guitarist, along with being a member of quite a diverse selection of acts including Vanilla Radio, Cee Luna, Massau’u, Nuns With Guns and the Nick Capaldi Band amongst others. Dorset-based Jamie is clearly a very busy man and 24 hours in a day is going to never be enough for a superhero like him. That said, somehow and somewhere Jamie has found time to record a Solo album “Do You Dream of Luminous Things?” with a selection of hand-picked musicians. He was brought up on Classic and Progressive Rock music with influences from the likes Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and Emerson Lake & Palmer, as well as more modern psychedelic artists such as Gong, Ozric Tentacles and Steven Wilson.
As an appetiser for the new album on the 21st February is the release of the first single “How I Caught the Moon”. The track features notable string arrangements by Lucy Hackett along with help from singer Molly Waters and fellow band members Jack Ansell, Rick Veall, Will Searn and Tim Bascombe, with lyrics written by James Ousley. As you would expect from a seasoned musician like Jamie the production on this is top class and the track was put together at Dorchester’s Echotown Studio. As we ease ourselves into the 7 minute 24 second piece, you can just tell from the opening bars it’s going to be something special.
The songs lyrics focus on themes of loss and solitude with the atmospheric arrangements powerfully portraying these feelings. Jamie’s powerful harmonious voice and majestic guitar work is just sublime, couple this with the epic uplifting instrumental backing, it is like a modern take on the Pink Floyd theme. There is so much going on and the track will take a few listens to fully appreciate, I love how the track is filled with emotion with both the voice and guitar solo delivering to the listener. I can’t help emphasise just how great this piece of music is and look forward to the release of the album in April this year for more of the same.
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Article By David Chinery (Chinners)
