Some eight barren years have elapsed since Glasgow's nocturnal melancholics The Blue Nile ... more
last tendered a studio album. However, patience is a virtue and "High" - which features material conceived and recorded over a ten year period, including a song o...
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Some eight barren years have elapsed since Glasgow's nocturnal melancholics The Blue Nile ... more
last tendered a studio album. However, patience is a virtue and "High" - which features material conceived and recorded over a ten year period, including a song o...
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Some eight barren years have elapsed since Glasgow's nocturnal melancholics The Blue Nile ... more
last tendered a studio album. However, patience is a virtue and "High" - which features material conceived and recorded over a ten year period, including a song once gifted to a former Spice Girl - yields a generous dividend for prostrate audiophiles and sleepwalking nighthawks alike. Like a far-away comet circling the universe in sublime and yet static perpetuity, The Blue Nile manoeuvre impressively into view every few years having changed very little, a compliment which can scarcely be applied to many other artists in their profession. In the manner of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis or Jackie Leven, Paul Buchanan's distressed utterances exude a downcast but romantic spirituality, mining a rich blue seam of fatigued detachment from the diaphragm upwards while somewhere in the background pianos, electronic drums and subtle acoustic guitars pulse inconspicuously and yet with all the assurances of a heart steadily beating insidethe chest. Eavesdropping on restaurant conversations, gazing at passing cars, looking at "the morning people going to work and fading away" is the stuff of cold, terminal exclusion but "High" is beautifully warm, offering the uncluttered quiescent orderliness of sonic Feng Shui for the soul.--Kevin Maidment
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the drums, the lyrics of Mr Buchanan again deal with ordinary events in his and other peoples lives and he makes them sound magnificent and noble in the process.
The Album
The collection begins with “Happiness” (4.40) this song might be familiar to some of you as it was used for many years on the Scottish tourist board T.V. adverts, open beautiful scenery and ancient buildings with “TheBlueNile” playing in the background, picture postcard perfect.
The song begins with an opening refrain on a keyboard and if you listen really closely you can hear Paul counting 2, 3, 4 and the tapping of his foot on the floor of the recording studio (a trick used by John Lee Hooker on his recordings) and the strumming of an acoustic guitar the vocals begin with the lines “Now that I’ve found Peace at Last, tell me ...
Advantages: It's real music Disadvantages: The sound quality
Background
For the 3 University graduates who make up the BlueNile (Paul Buchanan, Robert Bell and P.J. Moore) the pressure was on now that their debut album “A Walk across the Rooftops” had generated rave reviews and the attention of the a major record label in the form of Virgin, but with having no manager in place to take care of the day-to-day running of a band and the drudgery of dealing with record companies and of course their own private lives and answering letters and phone calls from fans the writing of new material got relegated to the back burner.
Paul Buchanan recalls “We went into the studio with no songs and we felt a bit of pressure to come up with something good and something quick and it just didn’t work, we would start things and then get bogged down and it just felt awful”.
In ...
Advantages: Soulful real music Disadvantages: It's an old pressing
Background
Who are and what is The BlueNile?
These are questions many have asked, as this band are famous for their lack of interviews, keeping their lives very private which has added to their enigma.
The BlueNile are in fact 3 university graduates, who graduated from the University of Glasgow at the end of the 70’s, two of them had know each other since childhood both of them playing as children on the Northern streets of Glasgow.
Paul Buchanan (degree in English literature) and P. J. Moore (degree in Electronics) where not aware of Robert Bell (degree in mathematics) during their time at university but not long after they finished their studies where introduced to each other through mutual friends, a friendship between Paul and Robert was soon struck up through their love of music.
Paul remembered he got him into ...
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Product details
Title
High
Performer
Blue Nile (The)
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
24/11/2008
Recomended Retail Price
15.99 GBP
Label / Distributor
Sanctuary / Universal Music
Engineer
Calum Malcolm
Producer
The Blue Nile
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Format
Performer
EAN
5050159028528
Catalogue Number
SANCD 285
Additional notes
Album Notes
Legendary Scots indie pop band release their fourth album and their first since 'Peace At Last' eight years ago. A folky, introspective and intricately constructed piece of work, with mood and atmosphere pushed to the fore, this is being hailed as a return to the classic sound of their first two albums. Includes the single 'I Would Never'.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Days Of Our Lives
2.
I Would Never
3.
Broken Loves
4.
Because Of Toledo
5.
She Saw The World
6.
High
7.
Soul Boy
8.
Everybody Else
9.
Stay Close
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25/09/2004
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