The Seer

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Remembrance Day. "It's quite a potent image of learning from things gone past. This is the underlying theme and the key that the whole album revolves around." Message from Derek Forbes — Big Country – It's more than a journey. It's an adventure". Bigcountry.co.uk. 31 December 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014 . Retrieved 8 April 2014. Peace In Our Time followed two years later, while 1991’s No Place Like Home was the band’s first long-player not to yield a UK top 20 hit. The Seer (2014 reissue) (CD liner). Big Country. Mercury Records. 2014. 3777173. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Opening the evening is the wonderfully talented Charlotte Grayson. Please come and show her your support. You’ll be glad you did.

Those who scoured the credits on record sleeves might, at first, have thought Millar an unusual choice. At that point, he was best known as the multi-million-selling studio mastermind behind Sade's Diamond Life as well as the wistful, jazz-inspired pop of Working Week, Everything But The Girl and The Pale Fountains. However, as an inveterate pop theorist, would be right to do a Steeltown Pt II with The Seer." After reading Millar's comments, they knew they had found someone they could work with. I've always considered myself as a singer and writer of folk songs I like to play though electric guitars."Gwenda (19 January 2012). "Big Country Interviews 1984-1986". Archived from the original on 25 March 2019.

Their second album Steeltown (1984) was a hit as soon as it was released, entering the UK Albums Chart at No. 1. [3] The album featured three UK top 30 hit singles, and received considerable critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, but like Wonderland (and, in fact, all subsequent releases) it was a commercial disappointment in the US, peaking at No. 70 on the Billboard album chart. [6] I think that any underlying feel that there is to any body of work that we do comes from the atmosphere surrounding the group at the time," explained Adamson. "We are a group who try and connect the ideas in our songs as directly and explicitly as possible ... if people can identify with our songs and take them into their lives, there can be no stronger confirmation of our work."

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El Afecto Ilustrado - Quintetos para el Conde. Integral de quintetos de cuerda con dos violas de José Palomino de la Quintana (1753-1810) (2022) Proper Records are delighted to make again available the first three albums from the much-loved Big Country. Originally released on Mercury Records between 1983 and 1986, these records – The Crossing, Steeltown, and The Seer – sound as striking and singular now as they did when first heard. a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.56. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Critic Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone gave The Seer a positive review, calling it "possibly [the band's] strongest effort to date": Millar remembers his mix of The Seer as one that highlighted Adamson's sensitivity as a songwriter. "I wanted it to be like a conversation between Stuart and Kate," he reveals. "The mandolin and bodhran were in the middle, totally dry, with Stuart's vocal to the left and Kate's to the right. My starting point. as always, was remembering him sitting on the little corner sofa in Studio 1 with a borrowed acoustic, singing these songs to me on his own. I felt that the band could complement his songs in a different way and really deliver something new

Find sources: "Big Country"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Seer is the third studio album by the Scottish band Big Country, released in 1986. The album featured very traditional Scottish musical settings, reminiscent of the band's debut album The Crossing (1983). Kate Bush worked on the title song in a duet with lead singer and lyricist Stuart Adamson. The album's first single, " Look Away", was an Irish number one, and was also the group's biggest hit single in the UK, reaching #7. [7]Mike Peters left the band in November 2013 at the end of their 19-date Land's End to John O'Groats UK Tour. The band attributed Peters' departure to his inability to commit fully to Big Country, much of his time being devoted to The Alarm and solo projects. Initially, the band intended to continue as a four-piece, sharing lead vocals and returning all the songs to their original keys; Peters had required the songs to be tuned lower to accommodate his deeper voice. [26] However, when they resurfaced in December 2013, they were joined by English singer Simon Hough, who performed most of the lead vocals as well as harmonica and additional guitar. [27] [28] While the status of Hough's membership was not immediately clarified, in a March 2014 podcast, Bruce Watson confirmed that Hough was now the band's fifth member. He also indicated that the group was working on new material, which would involve Hough, for potential future release. [29]