A Carol for the Boy

I was always told the secret to commercial success in the music biz was to do a Christmas (or maybe a football) song....not sure about that but I hope this gets you in the right mood for the season...wherever you are.
 A Christmas song from Ukraine, performed by "Kalyna" - Ukrainian Folk Ensemble - which also features Inna Kovtun on vocals. Jon Durant has crafted the musical accompaniment and I am on fretless bass....

Edwin/Durant/Kovtun - Radio show

Radio show from Ukraine, Featuring the Edwin/Durant/Kovtun album as well as the earlier Astarta/Edwin material:

Infinite Regress

I am duty bound to say a word or two about the new album, and I’ll start with admitting that it had been finished, and left unreleased, for quite some time. I had the release schedule all planned when it became necessary to hold it back for some reason or other, I think it may have been an O.R.k. album and tour needing priority,  and shortly after there was another Burnt Belief album, then the pressures of life and then, I am not too sure, but one thing after another and it slipped off my radar until eventually I realised it’d been well and truly shelved. 

So, finally there’s been a window where I’ve been able to give it my attention again, and I think the pause has been a blessing of sorts as I do feel the album is more relevant, and will hopefully resonate better with the outside world, at this time than it would have done before.

Despite the differing subject matter of the songs, there’s a unifying sense of confusion, uncertainty and anxiety that runs through the themes in the lyrical content, and as time has passed, these feelings seemed to have amplified, not just in my own mind, but in the world around all of us. The feeling that lots of things have been getting, not just a bit worse, but significantly so. 

I am pretty sure that we still have some way to go, unfortunately, before things (might) get any better. 

I am generally reluctant to say too much about specific ideas behind albums I am involved in, as I believe allowing the listener to find their own meaning is much more important, but I had wanted the album overall to have a certain “grainy” texture, a nocturnal, introspective atmosphere and to convey a general sense of misplaced and confused nostalgia, a bit like the feeling you might have whilst looking at a slightly blurred old photograph of something or someone from your past, but which doesn’t quite match your own memories. I think RJ has really bought these qualities to the fore with his lyrical contributions, and also his well considered guitar parts.

So, Infinite Regress in the Mirror City, a hauntologial landscape where there are no definite answers at the end of any promised rainbows. Uncertainty is the only certainty and errors, vagueness and all the shades of grey areas are to be explored much more thoroughly than the black and white.

Digital release across all the other platforms via Cargo Records.

For physical copies please see link below:

https://burningshed.com/colin-edwin_infinite-regress_cd


Lastly, I see Japanese metal band, “Defiled”, who probably couldn’t be much further musically speaking, have also named their upcoming album “Infinite Regress” and it’s due for release on the very same day as my album,….a synchronicity worth celebrating I feel, and completely in keeping somehow with the spirit behind this album.

"Floatograph" Video

Very happy to preview the first track from my upcoming album  "Infinite Regress"  which will be out on January 24th.

Pre-Order the album on this link: https://burningshed.com/colin-edwin_infinite-regress_cd

Thanks to Al from Human Eye for the effort he expended making this highly creative video.

Infinite Regress - Tracklisting and Credits

1. Opening of the Mouth
2. Hell Within Your Hands
3. Mirror City
4. Demission
5. Floatograph
6. Memory Ritual
7. Almost Still
8. Infinite Regress
9. Ignorunt
10. Under The Lens

Colin Edwin - Fretted and Fretless Basses, Rhythm Programming, Ebow, FX

Robert Peck - Vocals, Guitars, Ebow.

Recorded at Nightspace UK and Crash Studio UK.

Mixed by Colin Edwin at Nightspace UK

Mastered by Paul Mex at Mex One Recordings.

All titles (c) Edwin/Peck 

With:

Inna Kovtun and Eduard Prystupa - Guest vocals on “Hell Within Your Hands”

Thanks to Paul Mex @ Mex One Mastering, Jon Durant, Al Peck, Andrew McCabe @ Firemouth, Spector Basses, Ralf Bjurbo at EBS, Paul Herman at Wal Basses, Heiko Hoepfinger at Basslab, D’addario strings and Sontronics microphones.

Photography by Al Peck @ Human Eye Studio

Design by Jon Durant

All Pre-Orders taken via Burning Shed and received by mid December will be signed by myself and RJ.
Click here to order

Hannochka -

Further Travels - Episode 245 "Hannochka" in which yours truly and Jon Durant travel to the impressive Ukrainian capital city of Kiev and meet a mysterious and beguiling lady who transforms us into traditional local costume and custom whilst singing a lament for a lost future.....a meeting of minds that would not have been possible in a not so distant past.

Note: Bridges feature large in our world....build bridges not walls.


"Hannochka" - from the Edwin/Durant/Kovtun album....

"Infinite Regress" solo material January 2020

Above is the cover image for my forthcoming album "Infinite Regress" due for release in January 2020. Cover Image by Alistair @ Human Eye Studio

Featuring ten songs with a definite nocturnal ambience, I also had the assistance of my old buddy RJ Peck on vocals and guitar (see also Mesh EP)

There's a variety of concerns addressed in the lyrical content: urban drudgery, technological distraction and the inaccuracies of both personal and collective memories, communal amnesia as nostalgia.

Pre-Orders for physical CD's can be found on the following link: https://burningshed.com/colin-edwin_infinite-regress_cd