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Romantic Fiction 1 by Norman Lamont
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fave it Ambient | Folk Rock
5 tracks | 20 minutes
Released Jan 2006
on Habibi
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:42 I.O.U. lyrics FREE 04:42 I.O.U. lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:42 I.O.U.
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:35 Leaving lyrics BUY MP3 03:35 Leaving lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:35 Leaving
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:54 At the Harbour lyrics BUY MP3 04:54 At the Harbour lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:54 At the Harbour
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:01 If You Had Said lyrics BUY MP3 05:01 If You Had Said lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:01 If You Had Said
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:56 Untitled instrumental lyrics BUY MP3 01:56 Untitled instrumental lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:56 Untitled instrumental
Articulate, catchy, genre-hopping songs.
Bio / Background
Norman Lamont interviewed in August 2005 by Jim Igoe, founder of Edinburgh's open mic night Out of the Bedroom
The new CD is great. It sounds, particularly on IOU, like you've been listening to African music. What's influenced your new sound?
I had a song, IOU, which I liked but which sounded a bit ploddy when strummed on guitar.I was experimenting with different sounds, and found that if you stick a capo on an electric guitar with a chorus effect and pick very high up, it sounds a little like Graceland! That gave me the cue to listen to that kind of music for rhythm ideas. So that created that track, and just for a bit of consistency I put a similar sounding guitar on the next track and the last one. There's a nice contrast between that track and the more beatbox sound of 'At the Harbour'.
I was interested to see it's credited to Norman Lamont, not Norman Lamont and the Innocents. Have you let go of your innocence?
I see the recordings and the band as being quite separate.
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