26.11.2010 To celebrate John Keats hitting the silver screen through Jane Campion's film `Bright Star' Pathfinder Audio is releasing 'John Keats's sublime single' through iTunes and other digital outlets. It means you can drop into Keats's world without picking up a book, while washing up, driving, jogging etc. The two songs are settings of 'To Autumn' and 'When I have fears', classic Keats lyrics which keep yielding new resonances. And there is free back-up information on the lyrics and the poet at Education/Discovery.
Our other digital release is 'John Webster's blues-bustin' single', a response to the difficulties caused to so many by the banking debacle. 'Where there's life' tries to press the buttons marked `Positive' and has fantastic rock n roll instrumentation by Dave Eastoe. The B-side is 'Morning light', about 'coming out on the other side of the storm'. It's also available as a CD from Pathfinder Audio.
The Romantics and the King of Pop Michael Jackson might seem a strange pairing. However, in our new feature 'Themed Downloads' (which lets us highlight songs from our catalogue that seem most applicable to contemporary events), we have 'Two songs for Michael Jackson' which draw on lyrics by Keats and Shelley, and demonstrate the continuing resonance of their work. The two poets wrote movingly about mortality - and the Shelley lyrics from Adonais might seem particularly relevant to his fans.
Also available as a digital download: 'Tibet Will Be Free' by James Cameron and the Glastonbury Street Choir. It includes instrumentation by Brindaband stalwart Dave Eastoe and is in support of the cause of a free Tibet. And in the spirit of supporting the cause of liberal Islam in Britain and Europe on the home page there now appears 'The Oxford Declaration', which has been welcomed by a leading and courageous progressive British Muslim. It's a declaration of liberal principles for people from a Muslim background through which they can distance themselves from separatist and fundamentalist ideologies.
All the best, John at Pathfinder Audio
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