A Tale Untold, by Louise Le May

A Tale Untold

by Louise Le May

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1.	Broken Child 03:40	buy track
2.	Be My Guru 04:11	buy track
3.	Cassandra 03:55	buy track
4.	Sink and Swim 03:20	buy track
5.	Furniture 04:39	buy track
6.	The Only Fish 02:41	buy track
7.	Radium Smile 04:05	buy track
8.	Coal-Marble-Stone 03:25	buy track
9.	Thunderbird 02:34	buy track
10.	Photographic 04:05	buy track
11.	A Tale Untold 04:34	buy track

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"This wonderful debut album is a thoughtful and beautiful collection of songs from a unique talent . . . Le May is a worthy addition to an English tradition of songwriting that spans Ray Davies and Lennon and McCartney to Kate Bush and Kirsty MacColl." - Uncut magazine.

"Have just listened to your song (Cassandra). It's lovely. No cliche in the chord progressions, and lyrically it's interesting. Any song that includes Solihull is all right by me!" - Gilbert O'Sullivan.

"A triumph. The arrangements are top-flight." - Van Dyke Parks.

"She has the steady delivery of Judee Sill, but the harmonic flavour of Kate Bush or Robert Wyatt." - Sean O'Hagan, High Llamas.

"I have been playing Louise's absolutely beautiful and haunting songs incessantly." - Jonathan Coe, novelist.

"What she does is different from anything that's being done at the moment . . . her voice is both childlike and mysterious. Magic." - Michka Assayas, France Musique.

"This is called Be My Guru. I think it's great." - Guy Garvey, Elbow, on 6Music.

credits

released November 15, 2015

All songs written by Louise Le May
Arranged by Louis Philippe.
Produced by Ken Brake and Louis Philippe.

Louise Le May: vocals, piano on Sink and Swim.
Louis Philippe: guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, vocals.
Danny Manners: piano, double bass, keyboards.
Ken Brake: drum and synth programming, harmony vocal on Sink and Swim.
The Covent Garden String Quartet (Abigail Trundle, Eleanor Gilchrist, Teresa Whipple and Geraldeen Bereen).
Stuart Moxham: cajon on Cassandra

Piano arrangement on Furniture and The Only Fish by Danny Manners.
String arrangement on Thunderbird by Louise Le May, with violin performed by Neil Black.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ken Brake at Regal Lane Studio.

Artwork by Katrin Berge.

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Louise Le May London, UK

Louise Le May is something different - a unique and very English talent. Sometimes hard to categorise, her music in combination with the luscious, sophisticated arrangements of Louis Philippe, soars. It's timeless, dreamlike and reflective. Her voice, recorded with minimal fuss, open and natural is the first thing you notice. It has a lightness yet conveys a surprising depth. ... more

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