Threnodies and Ad hocs
“My music flows from the paintbox I've assembled over the years from Steel City rehearsals in abandoned little mester warrens to Motor City gospel studios still echoing with the soundtrack of my youth.”

Invocation
“A Blood Red Prayer’’

Threnodies
A song cycle featuring the force of naturę that is Sylwia Anna Drwal “..you shone like diamond studded sin ’’..She compels the listener ‘listen!‘

Ad hocs
A prosaic Ulyssean voyage through the influences that shaped iconoclast Adi Newton, “Future Cartography” is framed in four movements by a reimagined Clock DVA frequented by the ghosts of Joseph Holbrooke and Bernard Herrmann.

“Far From God’’ Pete Hope formally of The Box portrays a rite of passage gone wrong
“ In the blackness I could feel The Angel of Death”

Stephen Mallinder’s cut up Bellman of Dystopia proclaims “Doomerati!’’ Our history predates Cabaret Voltaire and reaches back to the early soul clubs of Sheffield, The Ark and Highway 61.

“Trophy Wives’’ My payback poem gets a classic David Was narration “Take em back on the plane to the Serengeti Plain.. in a freezer bag ” I once made the pilgrimage to Detroit to work with Was ( not Was). The experience was like coming home.

The Musicians. Salute - Michael Somerset