Tranquility Falls

 The latest video for the Cornucopia mega-album project has its Premiere today, thanks once again to Vive Le Rock magazine who have been very supportive - here is Tranquility Falls: (click the track art work to go to the video)

Manchester psych explorers THE SPEED OF SOUND have unveiled a final video from their mammoth A Cornucopia triple album.

Taken from part two of the triptych, Victory, "'Tranquility Falls' describes the moment when an enveloping inner peace descends, becoming at one both internally with the immediate surroundings and also with the wider outside world - largely possible through looking further afield in the context of the whole universe or by focusing on the minute detail. Uplifting and joyous, it revels in serenity, but this is an all embracing serenity with a booming heavy bass and entwined guitar lines expanding and echoing through space rather than a mere silent mindfulness exercise."

Available on vinyl, CD and digitally, A Cornucopia is available here.

Permafrost

From the second disc of A Cornucopia, Permafrost was written in the heat of a hotel balcony in Portugal in 2019; before anyone had heard of covid or lockdown. 

Instead the overpowering sense of frozen inertia and stasis evoked within Permafrost's chord structure and melody comes from the seventeenth century frost fairs held on the icebound river Thames. Bonfires were actually lit midstream, the ice was solid enough to support them.

A hauntingly unusual chord sequence, with an implied but non-existent key change and some wonderful muted trumpet from Bob Dinn. It fits the weird post-festive time of January where time stretches and the month seems as though its weeks are repeating. 

Physical; Vinyl and CD and also the downloads are here: https://www.thespeedofsounduk.com/shop-2/