New instrumental remix of The Family Grave's album “Play Songs About Love”

As a special treat this Xmas, The Family Grave is releasing a new album 'The Family Grave remix Songs About Love', a collection of instrumental remixes from the sessions for the album 'The Family Grave play Songs About Love' which came out this Autumn 2024.  

'The Family Grave remix Songs About Love' will be free to download via Bandcamp for the month of December and then released properly at the New Year, from 1st January.  You can find it here https://thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/the-family-grave-remix-songs-about-love 

The original album was a collection of ten songs about different kinds of love, with a lot of its power coming from the poetry of Jon's lyrics. However, Jon loved the accompaniment and felt the contributions of the players needed highlighting, so he decided to create a mirror album, remixing their beautiful contributions on the original tracks, turning them inside out, dropping most of his vocals to create a new 10-track collection with a very different vibe.

The intention was to make this album sound nothing like modern pop, and give it an intentionally different feel. The album's ten tracks start with 'No Return' a goodbye to a painful and bitter year of political and social tensions, and ends with 'The Immigrant' and its optimistic refrain of 'We Are All Different, And Yet We're All The Same' intended as a beacon of hope for a better world to come. 

In-between, there’s the upbeat bounce of 'Leave Him Behind', a weird psychedelic-country '6 O'Clock in the Morning', the super-sweet romanticism on 'Loving Is Easy' and some stunning jazz trumpet from Matt Ellis Devitt on 'Lessons of Love', channeling his inner Miles Davis to beautiful effect. 

Link to Lessons of Love (inst.) on Soundclou here  https://soundcloud.com/thefamilygrave/lessons-of-love-instrumental 

This remix album will not be available on Spotify or streaming services. You can listen to the original there or here  https://thefamilygrave.bandcamp.com/album/the-family-grave-play-songs-about-love

Production on 'The Family Grave remix Songs About Love' is by Jon of The Family Grave and Paul Pascoe at Church Road Recording Studios, Hove (UK).

Featuring:
Jon - acoustic guitar, occasional vocal
Paul - guitar, bass, orchestral arrangements
Martyn Moss (M.Butterfly) - bass, banjo, electric guitar, keyboards
R Dyer - sax and backing vocals
Peter Collis - drums, percussion, electric guitar and organ
Matt Ellis Devitt - trumpet
Tim Harbridge - backing vocals
Lindsey Oliver - backing vocals

Social media links here https://linktr.ee/thefamilygrave

The Family Grave play Songs About Love is available everywhere now https://recordu.lnk.to/The_Family_Grave_Play_Songs_About_Love

and there is vinyl and CD available via ElasticStage https://elasticstage.com/thefamilygrave