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The Magic Lantern
The Glad Cafe C.I.C
1006A Pollokshaws Rd
Dec 16, 2021
8:00 PM GMT
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The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern is the musical moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, his songs examine the limitless depth of human experience with devastating, joyous results.
His upcoming fourth album 'A Reckoning Bell' written and recorded while helping to care for his father with Alzheimers disease, sees Jamie turn to the piano to explore what loss can teach us about love and how love’s many small acts give a life meaning. The result is a study in masculine vulnerability that sits with and acknowledges the inevitability of a loss witnessed in slow motion and the unexpected moments of joy that sustain us.
The Magic Lantern’s live show is a rich, cathartic and moving experience dedicated to addressing the fear and anxiety present in us all.
‘A Reckoning Bell’ is released on 5 November 2021 via Hectic Eclectic Records.
“Dreamy, beautiful. Something very, very special." Lauren Laverne, BBC6 Music
“Extraordinary. Beautiful poised singing, amazing lyrics. Hypnotic!" Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music
"Gorgeous, beautiful. This stopped me in my tracks. Slightly surreal, in all the right ways. He’s just one of those artists who sounds totally like himself “ Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2
Finn Anderson
Moving between the worlds of music and theatre, Finn Anderson is one of Scotland's most enchanting storytellers. Drawing on folk, jazz, pop and orchestral influences, Finn’s songs move freely from the soft and intimate to the bold and dramatic, strung together by intricately crafted and heartfelt lyrics.
Finn's upcoming second album 'Into the Arms of Ghosts' is an intimate and personal collection of songs exploring longing and belonging, growth and change, love and loss - set against the rivers, coasts and landscapes of his childhood in rural Fife and Perthshire.
This new album follows a string of recent adventures including composing award-winning hit folk musical 'Islander', a solo US tour with Sofar Sounds, and performances at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall alongside Rachel Sermanni, C Duncan and Man of the Minch for Celtic Connections festival as part of LGBTQ folk music collective Bogha-Frois.
"One of Scotland's best kept songwriting secrets" Moonstruck on Clydeside
"A great songwriting talent" Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
"Few artists can stir our souls as strongly as Finn Anderson does" Frostclick
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What can loss teach us about love and how do love’s many small acts give a life meaning?
These are some of the questions that have preoccupied me as I’ve been making my fourth album 'A Reckoning Bell' over the last eighteen months while trying to be a good husband and son, friend and colleague and helping to care for my Dad with Alzheimer's disease.
Making music has always been a way of working out what I think, but in the midst of this intensely emotional time, it has also been a raft when the ground has given way. But as much as music helps me, I don't make records for myself. I do it because I believe that music has a social function in allowing people to project themselves into and onto songs to come to know themselves and their own lives better. This belief gives me a sense of purpose and that is the spirit in which I offer this music to you, that it may be useful if it’s what you need.
As I’ve grown I’m finding there’s no bottom to the well of human experience, that it just gets deeper and more complex. 'Such is life' Ned Kelly is reported to have said at the end. But in my experience, the light always finds a crack to shine through and there is nothing more beautiful than that. The album's second single 'Blades of Grass' - a joyous song for a desperate time - is out now.
'A Reckoning Bell' will be released on 5 November followed by a full UK tour. Hope to see you on the road.
Big love
The Magic Lantern / Jamie x
Read MoreThese are some of the questions that have preoccupied me as I’ve been making my fourth album 'A Reckoning Bell' over the last eighteen months while trying to be a good husband and son, friend and colleague and helping to care for my Dad with Alzheimer's disease.
Making music has always been a way of working out what I think, but in the midst of this intensely emotional time, it has also been a raft when the ground has given way. But as much as music helps me, I don't make records for myself. I do it because I believe that music has a social function in allowing people to project themselves into and onto songs to come to know themselves and their own lives better. This belief gives me a sense of purpose and that is the spirit in which I offer this music to you, that it may be useful if it’s what you need.
As I’ve grown I’m finding there’s no bottom to the well of human experience, that it just gets deeper and more complex. 'Such is life' Ned Kelly is reported to have said at the end. But in my experience, the light always finds a crack to shine through and there is nothing more beautiful than that. The album's second single 'Blades of Grass' - a joyous song for a desperate time - is out now.
'A Reckoning Bell' will be released on 5 November followed by a full UK tour. Hope to see you on the road.
Big love
The Magic Lantern / Jamie x
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